Acetone transfer

Transfer a laserjet print image or photocopied image to rubber in order to carve your own rubberstamp. A Lone R letterboxer tutorial.

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[rattlingchains]

Excellent tutorial. Alas, I own an inkjet, so no dough for me! Guess I have to stick to tracing!

[ontariocacher]

@rattlingchains Try wintergreen oil. I saw wintergreen oil demo'd at a letterboxing event. I'm pretty sure the image was an inkjet image. Rub a thin layer of wintergreen oil on the rubber. Lay the image on the rubber. Apply a thin layer of wintergreen on the back of the image. Rub the back of the image with the back of a spoon to help transfer the image to the rubber. Peel off the paper. Some drugstores carry wintergreen oil.

[vinbasshred]

how's that a stamp? It comes right off and not beveled.

[ontariocacher]

@vinbasshred

It's the first step in creating a hand carved stamp. It's a method to transfer the image to rubber. The next step is to carve out the white space with a linoleum cutter and leave the black part of the transfer.

[bfinoradin]

I hope you usually wear gloves. yikes.

[ontariocacher]

@bfinoradin

Do a google search for: acetone material safety data sheet

[deIeteThisComment]

thanks a lot.

very useful :)

[ArtistWoOoOo]

how could i do this on fabric and make it stay?Hairspray??or what???pls answear

[keithcorcoran]

@TheMaxjrc not likely. the acetone usually fogs the plexi. You can probably print your design on inkject photo paper and then while it's still wet, try burnishing your image from the paper to the plexi without smearing too much.

[TheMaxjrc]

can you do that on plexi glass