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    thanks fivestar! wait till you see the stripe i am planning to put on the side. it will be black reflective on black. not much to lok at during the day, but when a lite hits it at night! it wil look like a white/silver stripe. ;)

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    yes joe, i plan to offer them on my website (that still needs some work), stickersnthings.com. the frames and covers are available at your local auto parts store. yes they come in clear also. i think i paid something like $17 for both chrome frames and clear covers. the flame pattern came from a metal frame that i found at schmucks auto parts some number of years ago. i scanned it (i had to do two scans because it was too long for my scanner bed), then traced it with the poly line tool and node editor.

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    yes more or less... i split the nodes where lines would become tangent, and deleted what you did not need. to join the lines back together, you just drag one node over the other and they automatically join. when you view your drawing in node editor, you are seeing what the cutter sees. use the help section to learn about the node editor, it is your best friend. i use the poly line tool and node editor more than the vector function (it adds way too many nodes). it inverted the colors when i put the weed box around the whole thing. and i always work on a duplicate of the original. when i made the two templates, i duplicated the whole thing and then deleted the other color.

    hope this helps ;D

    bb

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    here you go, try this. the bar at the top of the images is for alignment during assembly of the two colors, you will throw that away when you are done. when you are weeding the text, it is a good idea to cut the negative space into smaller pieces as you weed. also don't forget to weed from right to left. the red grafic was a mess! that would have never cut right, you had too many lines in there (compare your original to my finished version with node editor, you will see what i mean). let me know if you have any questions. :thumbsup:

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    can you post the eps? then someone can try it and maybe come up with a solution. i have found that the more you reduce the size of an image, the more it "skews" or distorts at the cutter. this can make weeding and or just getting a good cut image difficult. i also will spend a lot of time with the node editor to clean up an image before cutting. also when working on a new image, i will put paper and a pen in my machine and draw it before i cut it. this shows me what the cut piece will look like in full size. sometimes i need to move a line or round off a corner, or get rid of a small detail because it isn't a significant one in the cut image. my sign maker friend told me "when weeding text, to weed it from right to left because of the negative spaces" this won't cure all of your weeding problems, but it does make it easier. i don't have any yet, but a really good pair of weeding tweezers would help. i always make sure to have a fresh blade in my exacto knife so i can make any fine cuts.

    hope this helps

    bb

  17. Posted

    the life of the blade really depends on what you are cutting. some reflective vinyls have glass beads in them that will take the edge off a blade in a hurry. your weeding problems are more likely a result of the start point and endpoint not being in exactly the same place. this is worse for smaller images than for larger ones. hope this helps.

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    sorry joe, i don't mean to hijack your thread. ;) haumana; i wish i had a place in hawaii. we were on the big island last april for ten days, it was total bliss! thanks for the kudos ;)!

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    vinyl is just a hobby for me. i hope to make a little money with it though. i make most of my living from turning boards into sawdust, but something beautifull usually rises from the dust in the end. ;Dhttp://blessinghomes.net/page6/page6.html

    bb

    Dude (BB) - That is sooo awesome. Why can't you be a contractor in Hawaii? I'm going to be looking for someone to redo the upstairs bathroom, possibly the downstairs bathroom, and to build a deck / carport underneath the deck at the new house we're going to. Any chance you have friends or family in the trade that do great work like you that live here?

    simply awesome.

  19. Posted

    if you want to add pressure to your pinch rollers, you can disassemble them and shim the springs with a washer of the same outer diameter as the spring. if your cutter is like mine, the grit coated roller under the vinyl is two pieces joined at the middle with a bearing in between. it is possible one of the set screws at that middle joint is loose. fi this is the case, your vinyl would track all over the place. you can roll this roller with your fingers. try rolling one side while holding the other side still. if one side moves when the other side doesn't, try tightening the set screws on either side of the center bearing.

    hope this helps

    bb