"TimW" wrote in message ...
My beautiful Victorian ornamental garden gate is nearly ready to go out the front of
the Victorian Terrace. I had a thought that it would be great to paint the house name
onto the gate rail in fine Victorian capitals. I doubt that I have the eye-hand
artistry to do this well enough freehand, so is there a way to cheat a bit. If For
instance I find the font and print it out how would I transfer that to the gate so that
I can paint it with a fine brush? Or is there a way of making sticky templates from a
pdf?

TW


Print it on heavy paper. Turn it into a stencil by cutting around the edges with a craft
knife or similar not forgetting "cross pieces" to hold the stencil together.

Attach to the gate with tape using plenty of masking. Then just *lightly" spray through
the stencil with a contrasting colour paying particular attention to the edges.
This faint image can then act as a guide for a proper outline to be painted
and filled in. Which is why the width of the cross pieces won't be crucial
provided you place them along straight edges wherever possible.


michael adams

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