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John Lucas

>Your right. Binh Pho does teach that technique. He has people using this as a transfer method to get designs for airbrushing.

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Peter Teubel

>If you're using a laser printer (or anything with a dry toner/fuser system), you can just iron it on, too.

Binh is such a cool guy!

John Crissman

>Binh is super nice and relaxed. I have enjoyed seeing his pieces and just chatting with him about any old thing.

This is what you get when you join your local AAW club. You never know who you will meet. Maybe you will have the next Ellsworth or Kline in your club. Who knows, maybe they already are there.

I am fortunate to know Binh Pho, Dick Sing and Steve Sinner plus 150 other great turners through our local club.

We challenge each other with new ideas every month. Turners are some of the best people in the world.

That's it.

John

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Ron in Drums PA

>Here is another easy way of transfering a B&W laser image to a flat surface.

First you need to use the heavest stock that will feed though the laser printer. 67# vellum bristol is good. The idea is that heat is used to "set" the image into the paper and heavier stocks take more heat then the average laser printer can produce.

Now tape the print, image side down on your very smooth wooden surface. Use a standard household iron, set on high, to tranfser the image. Gently, but with a frim downward press apply heat to the whole surface of the paper.

I used to do this all the time when I played around with a scroll saw. I even have a old laser printer that the heating element died that I use for this (I can brush off the toner if I'm are not careful).

Works great.

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Bill Hale, Woodspinner

>Sorry for my spelling of Mr. Binh Pho

Bill

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Mark Mandell - Gone Round In Jersey

>For any of you planning to do this and who SELL your work, you'd do well to make sure that the image you chose to copy and transfer is NOT copyrighted. You really don't want to be hauled into a court by some irate artist (not the 5 min. variety, but the person who spent years training and practicing to be able to come up with that image you like so much that you want to copy it] who has "had it up to here" with people ripping off his/her designs using the Internet.

Mark Mandell

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Amen Mark

BubbaBob

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peter kolb

>Just a little side note. At the 2003 totally turning symposium, Albany NY . Binh Pho said that he used to use the saturte the copy with toluene method but it lacked the control that the was looking foor. I was too dumb to ask what he was trying to control. His new method: Artists use color markers and when they want to blend colors

they use a colorless marker called a "blender". I

think this marker is loaded with toluene-it sure smells like toluene Binh is anexceptionaltalented person and a gifted nstructor/demostrator

peter in nj