Wood Burning

[spoth28]

Just a quick question about wood burning. Do I need to use a pattern for wood burning, or is it just free hand? Thanks! P.s. (getting my first wood burning kit tomorrow)

[Scrappile]

I think you can use carbon paper and trace the pattern onto the wood.

 

Here is a great site, on woodburning.  Been storing in my bookmarks a long time...hoping to try some wood burning some day.

 

http://www.lsirish.com/

[spoth28]

Thanks. Just don't want to start, and set the whole project on fire

[rjR]

Start on "junk" wood and something that you not not value!

 

Remember to keep the point clean!

 

Fine sandpaper glued/stapled to a very smooth wooden block will work well for cleaning points! 

 

Clean often; remember that it can burn things you do not expect it too also! SO BE VERY careful about where/how you set down the hot burner.

 

Practice is the only way to improve. You can go back over to darken too! You try the different points to see what you are comfortable with. I use a small needle nose pliers for changing hot tips. I then lay them on some metal  surface to cool.

[jesse]

yes use carbon paper to trace, I myself do wood burning to

[amazingkevin]

Just a quick question about wood burning. Do I need to use a pattern for wood burning, or is it just free hand? Thanks! P.s. (getting my first wood burning kit tomorrow)

Soft wood burns best but pine is grainy and doing a strait line every time you go over a grain it leaves a dot.Balsa wood is cheap and real soft to practice on.

unless your artistic ,I'd use a pattern.

Edited February 23, 2016 by amazingkevin

[Ron Johnson]

For cleaning the tips I use a special shaped scraper made by Razortip and wipe clean with a leather hide. Transferring patterns can be done using tracing paper or freehand. Myself I prefer burning onto Baltic Birch Ply. The burning system I use is Razortip (razortip.com) manufactured an hour from where I live. Great system.

Edited February 23, 2016 by Ron Johnson