Thread: Imprinting pens

you can do this with a soldering iron or a normal hosehold iron

the trick is the laser/photocopy machine

the heat transferes the toner from the paper to the wood

MIK

Originally Posted by MBUMIK

you can do this with a soldering iron or a normal hosehold iron

the trick is the laser/photocopy machine

the heat transferes the toner from the paper to the wood

MIK

how?
do you have to print in mirror image?

works just like a transfere so yes must be in reverse

i have done it a couple of times with designs for scroll saws, and the iron works no worries

the hard part with a pen is that it is small and round and the iron is big and flat but you would think that a variable heat soldering iron should do no worries, not sure about the normal ones but one can only try

MIK

Toy soldering irons don't have enough oomph. A clothes iron (subject to SWMBO permission), set on "Linen" or "Cotton," works best for me. Also can transfer a faint image onto fabric (natural, not man-made).

Use MSPaint, or similar, to prepare and flip the image.

Cheers,
Joe