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  1. 2 points
    Just finishing up this set of Cornhole Boards. This is my design. I didn't grab it off the net but plenty out there. It was a PAIN to cut. Probably set it to cutter 8 times. Every time it would stop cuttting about 3/4 of the way through the job. Finally had to cut it in 2 section and tape together. Then used that as a template to stain my boards.
  2. 2 points
    There's nothing wrong with being a newbie. I was once too. You will have some investment in time in the early stages but it's worth it. Many of the new cutter owners give up on the graphics side of it and eventually lose interest altogether. If you hang tough and really work at it you will one day realize you are pretty much past the learning stage and into another phase of cutter life. I kid you not you will look back and wonder what seemed so hard. (assuming you actually work through the learning stages)
  3. 1 point
    I am still learning the software kinda still a newbie, I"ll give it a try I just tried opening it, their is lots of stuff that this grasshopper needs to learn, got it opened finally after your help, wish their was better tutorials on YouTube on how to use vinyl master pro, I've been in some of the webinars and they have answered a lot of my questions but I still need more education. Sorry for the newbie questions.
  4. 1 point
    W8SJH is my Ham call sign - description of 73 is . . . . was testing to see how many hams we had on here - I know of a couple. I personally fall into the geek class as I always wanted my licence in the 70's but couldn't afford the equipment at the cost back then. got my license a couple years ago and was surprised to find the beloved hobby for electronics geeks had essentially been overrun by preppers that would grab a soldering iron by the hot end :/ 73 -- Ham lingo for "best regards." Used on both phone and CW toward the end of a contact. The first authentic use of 73 is in the publication The National Telegraph Review and Operators' Guide, first published in April 1857. At that time, 73 meant "My love to you!" In the National Telegraph Convention, the numeral was changed to a friendly "word" between operators. In 1859, the Western Union Company set up the standard "92 Code." A list of numerals from one to 92 was compiled to indicate a series of prepared phrases for use by the operators on the wires. Here, in the 92 Code, 73 changes to "accept my compliments," which was in keeping with the florid language of that era. Over the years from 1859 to 1900, the many manuals of telegraphy show variations of this meaning. Dodge's The Telegraph Instructor shows it merely as "compliments." The Twentieth Century Manual of Railway and Commercial Telegraphy defines it two ways, one listing as "my compliments to you;" but in the glossary of abbreviations it is merely "compliments." Theodore A. Edison's Telegraphy Self-Taught shows a return to "accept my compliments." By 1908, however, a later edition of the Dodge Manual gives us today's definition of "best regards" with a backward look at the older meaning in another part of the work where it also lists it as "compliments." "Best regards" has remained ever since as the "put-it-down-in-black-and-white" meaning of 73 but it has acquired overtones of much warmer meaning. Today, amateurs use it more in the manner that James Reid had intended that it be used --a "friendly word between operators."
  5. 1 point
    You'll always be welcomed. Thank goodness. But seriously I need to go buy a shovel tomorrow.
  6. 1 point
    You have several things going on. #1. Depending on your cutter you can get some inaccuracy in the cut particularly with budget cutters. HTV is a little different to cut due to the carrier usually being softer than the carrier for regular sign vinyl. Not usually an issues but is possible. #2. Any time you press a shirt or hoodie it shrinks and skews a little due to the fabric reacting to the heat and then the vinyl reacting to the cooling after the heat. #3. I would bet a dollar that your design is not properly set up for HTV. There are several schools of thought and each one has a time and place. In the above pic I would probably lay down the black and then just stack the white on top. If this is something that the reveal has to be spot on then you would want to put the white down and design the black as a punched out set of outlines over the top of the white. Sometimes hard to decide which way to go. I usually let the thickness of the outlines determine if an overlay is a good idea. Much thinner than 5 or 6 points wide and it will be pushing it to get good adhesion. In your example you would likely have to separate the loading bar from the snail because there will be too much movement to get things lined up at one shot. Fortunately with HTV you can do that pretty easy. When I do two color numbers on sports jerseys I tend to do the outline method. There is enough shrink and stretch that things like numbers will shirk more one direction than the other making a double stack nearly impossible to get good clean reveal all the way around. With outlines I just create the inner (bottom layer) wide enough that the outlines will overlap all sides and then the reveal is perfect every time. Hope that makes sense to you. Sometimes hard to explain clearly in writing.