Handy Source Of Heavy Cardboard For Patterns.

[joe59]

Go to cost-co or sam's club. They use heavy cardboard between the stacks of paper towels and toilet paper. The employees are more than happy to have you take it away. It comes in pieces about 4' square. Also old x-ray film is great for stiffeners, small patterns and a backing when tooling thiner leathers. The rubber cement cleans off with ease and the film can be used over and over.

JOE

[Gawdzilla]

Of course one would never use the free flat-rate envelopes and boxes from the USPS for anything other than their intended use, would one.

No, seriously, I mean that.

Well, unless there's an emergency, of course.

[BIGGUNDOCTOR]

I would surprised if you could get x-ray film withthe price of silver so high. They can reclaim it off of the old x-rays.

The pieces used on pallets are called slip sheets, we used them at Jelly Belly.

[joe59]

I received my xrays from a vet. They were ones he couldn't read or the animal moved ect...... Most of the Dr's offices and hospitals have gone to digital print outs but the old films are out there if you look.

[Nightwolf]

I am not certain if this is 100% applicable, but I will share it anyway. I just brought an air gun and compressor this past week, and in playing aorund I found one of the neatest things to use to make templates used for spraying was a plain white sheet of styrene. I was able to find it at a local hobby town in the model railroad section. A 12" x 36" sheet was about $3.25. I found it rather fun to work with, just scratch it with a blade (I used an exacto knife set) and then you can bend it and it snaps making a very nice straight line (assuming you cut a straight line) I was also surprised by how well I was able to curves to add detail. I'll include a couple pictures of what I sprayed using the template. I plan to use this to experiment with dying designs on leather with the air gun. I personally just really like the stiff plastic feel of styrene for holding a pattern.

This is the Horde symbol form Warcraft I used to make a shirt

My wife's design sprayed on her shirt.....she has a thing for angry koalas

[Razz]

I am not certain if this is 100% applicable, but I will share it anyway. I just brought an air gun and compressor this past week, and in playing aorund I found one of the neatest things to use to make templates used for spraying was a plain white sheet of styrene. I was able to find it at a local hobby town in the model railroad section. A 12" x 36" sheet was about $3.25. I found it rather fun to work with, just scratch it with a blade (I used an exacto knife set) and then you can bend it and it snaps making a very nice straight line (assuming you cut a straight line) I was also surprised by how well I was able to curves to add detail. I'll include a couple pictures of what I sprayed using the template. I plan to use this to experiment with dying designs on leather with the air gun. I personally just really like the stiff plastic feel of styrene for holding a pattern.

This is the Horde symbol form Warcraft I used to make a shirt

My wife's design sprayed on her shirt.....she has a thing for angry koalas

Do you know what is the thickness of these sheets.

[Nod4Eight]

I like the vinyl floring scraps myself. Most of my work is in chinks and chaps so the bulky pattern doesn't bother me. I write any info I need to remember on the back, its free and I like that I can store it flat or roll it up. And its very durable.