Yep, I love scoring on tile and using oil paint pens to highlight the lines. These are all 100% vectors, with the banjo ones completely created by myself to hone my Inkscape skills. (drew them from banjo patent artwork as a reference). The glossy tiles don’t seem to score / hold the paint as well as the matte tiles.
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Good work. It’s funny that the metallic sound of the typical resonated banjo played Scruggs style is like fingernails on a blackboard to me. Yet I truly enjoy the sound of an openback banjo when played clawhammer style. I have two under construction on my bench right now.
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I love them both, but understand how Scruggs can be a bit much. I don’t play clawhammer yet, but could easily use my Nechville for it. Definitely a more modern, warm tone vs my Huber. Would love to see yours some day…
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awesome! so look for matte tiles and can you share score settings?
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Settings for non-proofgrade material can only be discussed in the Beyond the Manual forum. Fortunately, there are many existing threads on working with tile.
Yes @rebecca2, I wanted to leave the settings out so it could stay in this category, however a quick forum search will lead you to plenty of good options.
General note:
Matte tiles do seem to take a score much better. The white image with the banjo is a glossy tile, and they tend to get a little bit of pitting along the score line. Perhaps adjusting the settings a bit might help.
Picked up the banjo about the same time as Steve Martin. He was using the banjo as a prop in his stand-up comedy. Apparently he has practiced since then. I didn’t.
Full circle… a friend who has played in our local oldtime jam, won the Steve Martin Prize for Excellence in Banjo. Watched his band and Steve Martin play together on David Letterman.
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Victor Furtado? He’s the only one who might be old time and in your neck of the woods…
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No. Have met Victor and sat with him in a jam at the Appalachian String Band Festival (Clifftop) but he wouldn’t know me and I’m a rank beginner by comparison. It was Sammy Shelor of Lonesome River Band (Bluegrass). Sammy can’t play clawhammer but he does a good job keeping it subtle for oldtime. The guitar player with Lonesome River is the son-in-law of our fiddler. So they stop through here often.
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I like the banjo!
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