How To Make My Own Wood Burning Tool
After the wood burner is plugged in for about 5 minutes it has reached its maximum temperature which is actually too hot to put on paper.
How to make my own wood burning tool. You need to get the wire hot then as you tap the hammer on the wire you kind of pull the hammerhead back towards you to extrude the metal. A file or sandpaper. Then place a piece of carbon paper on the wood and set the paper with the design on top of the carbon paper.
Transfer your design to the wood. Begin by drawing the design on a piece of paper or by creating on a computer and then printing it out. I have an old piece of railroad rail I use for an anvil and a small ballpean hammer.
To cool it I use a scrap piece of pine 24 see video. Do this in several places around the fish and note the locations on the paper. A source of heat camp fire stove burner propane torch Materials.
Lay the sheet of mylar over your line art and retrace the pattern with a permanent marker creating lines for the various areas to be cut. When hot start burning in your design. Make a design on paper or on a computer and transfer it onto your wood surface.
In this tutorial Im going to show you how to make your own wand. This will transfer some of the heat out of the tip. You can also go over a design a few times to make it darker.
Mark out the door for your stove. For safety we screwed the valve back in to the top of the stove and carefully cut the door. The freezer and place a piece of white wax paper wax side down on the skin surface and lightly rub the surface with a soft pencil to highlight the scale outlines.
