Guess I’d better post quickly before it disappears…chuckle! (Whoop! Too late…it’s gone.)
It’s very, very cool. (The Precision Power engrave, not the stamp.)
Just inverted a jpeg from the internet, slapped a little rectangle around it, and sent it to engrave with the Map Grays to Power function in the new Engrave dialog box. (Two passes to make it deep enough to use as a stamp.)
Cut it out of the Maple Proofgrade ply and stuck a piece of tape on the back to use as a handle.
Works a lot better than I expected given that finish on the plywood.
So anyway…that should be all kinds of fun when we get it.
Thinking that the Draftboard is similar to MDF. Get it wet and it swells or starts to fall apart a little or a lot. Might not be great as a stamp material. But just guessing. Real wood swells too, but to a much lesser extent.
Oh, good. I was getting worried, because that was a feature that really excited me. I have seen some of the things people are doing with paper and really thin material using the precision power settings and they’re awesome!
Just an update…ran the same stamp out of the draftboard. It was a little small, but it created about the same kind of stamp results as the plywood. (I was expecting it to look a little better, but there are tiny flecks uniformly missing from the draftboard. Might want to sand it before cutting with a superfine grade sandpaper.
Anyway…both seem to give a nice aged effect to the stamp.
