Muito interessante! não tinha ideia que fazíamos disto por cá. Por curiosidade que tipo de formação têm? Há algum tempo que me interesso pela pintura de sinais mas sempre como amador. Seria interessante ter alguma prática.
Fabian Laborie - The technique is called "Pouncing". The small spiked wheel tool is called a "Pounce Wheel" and the paper pattern is called a "Pounce Pattern". This is a very old signwriting technique for transferring a design from paper to the sign board (or in this case a saw). One thing they didn't show was to give the reverse side of the paper a quick, light block sand to knock down the furry edges on the pattern that are formed by the wheel puncturing the paper. This makes for a cleaner pattern and transfer (less chalk and more distinct dots). Two great resources for highly professional scripts and block lettering to practice from are Sign DNA and Letterhead Fonts. These fonts are hand-digitised from original hand executed versions by master sign craftsmen such as Mike Stevens and Bob Behounek. Too often these days I see people starting off in the trade and the scripts they start to emulate are based on old tattoo styles. Many of these are proportionally and rhythmically weak and can lead to bad habits if one unwittingly follows their constructional mistakes. Hope this helps..
Fun little video. Why not just draw direct onto the saw with a chalk pencil or something first instead of doing the dot/ powder technique? Can't argue with your results, just curious about the process.
no name Hi! Normally we paint this saws freehand (just with a pencil sketch), but in this case because it was a custom order we want it to look just like the sketch approved by the client, so we make a pouncing pattern :)
Muito bom !! os letristas do Brasil ficam orgulhosos kkkk
Really interesting process !
Amazing work! You should definitely upload more of these!
+rasherlr Thank you ;)
wonderful video!
Very cool video
Muito interessante! não tinha ideia que fazíamos disto por cá. Por curiosidade que tipo de formação têm? Há algum tempo que me interesso pela pintura de sinais mas sempre como amador. Seria interessante ter alguma prática.
Olá! Nós temos formação em design gráfico. Obrigado pelo feedback.
Awesome! What's the technique to transfer it on the saw? You making thin holes and chalk them?
+Fabien Laborie Thank you! Yes, that's right.
Fabian Laborie - The technique is called "Pouncing". The small spiked wheel tool is called a "Pounce Wheel" and the paper pattern is called a "Pounce Pattern". This is a very old signwriting technique for transferring a design from paper to the sign board (or in this case a saw). One thing they didn't show was to give the reverse side of the paper a quick, light block sand to knock down the furry edges on the pattern that are formed by the wheel puncturing the paper. This makes for a cleaner pattern and transfer (less chalk and more distinct dots). Two great resources for highly professional scripts and block lettering to practice from are Sign DNA and Letterhead Fonts. These fonts are hand-digitised from original hand executed versions by master sign craftsmen such as Mike Stevens and Bob Behounek. Too often these days I see people starting off in the trade and the scripts they start to emulate are based on old tattoo styles. Many of these are proportionally and rhythmically weak and can lead to bad habits if one unwittingly follows their constructional mistakes. Hope this helps..
Thanks Rebel Nomad for this super complete explanation !
GREAT
do you free hand the letters?
Fun little video. Why not just draw direct onto the saw with a chalk pencil or something first instead of doing the dot/ powder technique? Can't argue with your results, just curious about the process.
no name Hi! Normally we paint this saws freehand (just with a pencil sketch), but in this case because it was a custom order we want it to look just like the sketch approved by the client, so we make a pouncing pattern :)
Aaah, that makes complete and total sense! Thanks for explaining.
What do you use to keep the brush bristles together?
+rasherlr What do you mean? The brush is just like that.
+halfstudiosigns when preparing the brush, do you dip it in anything? for example, white spirit, paint thinner etc.
+rasherlr it depends of paint consistency, sometimes we dip it on paint thinner.
+halfstudiosigns Ok Thanks, I was just wondering as I've started experimenting with sign painting
+rasherlr Paint consistency is everything !
what the heck...you never show us the finished product! :(
Thats good but it would be more impressive hand painting lettering straight onto the saw blade ...why the need to pre draw ?