Post by helens on Dec 30, 2012 21:46:50 GMT -5
I just got these today from someone on the Gem forum, and I HAD to show them off!!
Troy posted a few weeks ago about templates, that he had the ability to cut templates and was offering to trade. So I sent him a pm to ask about them. Some time ago, I had gotten some template pdf's from Tony Terner, but I wasn't sure what to do with them.
Actually, I've never used/owned any real templates at all, I eyeball everything, and much of what I make is freeform, because I want to conserve as much of the rock as possible most of the time. Then I thought I should probably get some templates because for things like Intarsia, it would make things so much easier.
I sent him Troy of Tony's template PDF (he can cut any shape or size!), picked the ones I wanted - they were not all entire sheets but parts of this and that pdf, and asked him if he could make them.
Well OMG! LOOK at this!!! I LOVE this!!!! For one, they are pink! (love pink!) But he also sent me the cutouts!!! That means I can use both the inside and outside edges! It never even occurred to me to ask about cutouts, but he sent them all anyway, and his tool cuts them so precisely, they are exact shapes!! I THINK he has a laser cutter. The material is thick and heavy plexiglass. Coooll stuff!!!!
And look how he packed them, in a Kindle Fire box, I can store them in there too:) (don't expect this, bet he doesn't have any Kindle Fire boxes left:P ):
He was open to trades too, so if you want some templates made, pm me and I'll pm you back his email. He's got this website, so you can pm him from there about templates (I don't want to post his email here without his permission):
www.windrivergems.com/index.php
The nice thing about this is, he can make whatever templates you want, just send him a drawing of it:). I was thinking this would be soooo helpful for making things like intarsia, or knife parts that you want duplicated!! I'm just so tickled:)!!
Troy posted a few weeks ago about templates, that he had the ability to cut templates and was offering to trade. So I sent him a pm to ask about them. Some time ago, I had gotten some template pdf's from Tony Terner, but I wasn't sure what to do with them.
Actually, I've never used/owned any real templates at all, I eyeball everything, and much of what I make is freeform, because I want to conserve as much of the rock as possible most of the time. Then I thought I should probably get some templates because for things like Intarsia, it would make things so much easier.
I sent him Troy of Tony's template PDF (he can cut any shape or size!), picked the ones I wanted - they were not all entire sheets but parts of this and that pdf, and asked him if he could make them.
Well OMG! LOOK at this!!! I LOVE this!!!! For one, they are pink! (love pink!) But he also sent me the cutouts!!! That means I can use both the inside and outside edges! It never even occurred to me to ask about cutouts, but he sent them all anyway, and his tool cuts them so precisely, they are exact shapes!! I THINK he has a laser cutter. The material is thick and heavy plexiglass. Coooll stuff!!!!
And look how he packed them, in a Kindle Fire box, I can store them in there too:) (don't expect this, bet he doesn't have any Kindle Fire boxes left:P ):
He was open to trades too, so if you want some templates made, pm me and I'll pm you back his email. He's got this website, so you can pm him from there about templates (I don't want to post his email here without his permission):
www.windrivergems.com/index.php
The nice thing about this is, he can make whatever templates you want, just send him a drawing of it:). I was thinking this would be soooo helpful for making things like intarsia, or knife parts that you want duplicated!! I'm just so tickled:)!!