Silk-screening is a groove to reproduce intricately designed Craft pieces, signs, or patterns on condign approximately any surface you can think. While print-making shops application excessively expensive machines to Shade, the legend of silk screening is one of no problem tools and do-it-yourself artists and craftsman. All you de facto demand in a screening mechanism is a crack surface and hinge clamps to ownership and register your Shade. With these tools, you can shape your own silk Shade device.
Instructions
Construction
1. An senile pingpong table can serve as a adept silk screening drudgery table. A Formica top and Broad workspace are example.
Face your table and decide which confine Testament be the front of your workspace.
Using your pencil, speck the table completed the screw holes (some brands acquire three holes for mounting, others four holes), and then remove the hinges and locate them aside.4. Mounting a drill bit in virgin electric drills is all told simple.Mount the 1/64 inch drill bit and drill pilot holes straight down, at 90 degrees with the table, on each of your pencil marks.5.
2. At the rear of the table, degree and dwelling the hinges six inches apart with the screw-hole purpose flush with the path of the table.3.
Realign the hinges with the drill holes, taking care each hole you drilled aligns with a screw hole.
6. Screw the hinges to the table using your wood screws.
7. Mount your screen to the grip-ends of the hinge clamps. The grips look similar to miniature vices with small wing nuts used to adjust the tension and gap of the grips. Widen the grips by turning the wing nuts counter-clockwise (typically) until the frame of the screen fits into the clamp. Place the the screen, recessed side up, and tighten the grips so that the screen is held firmly in place.
8. Begin printing. You may now place your medium, be it paper or cloth, beneath your screen, apply the ink with a screening squeegee, and print your art multiple times without having to realign your screen each time. The hinge clamps hold your screen in place, very as allows you to press your screen to your medium and apply ink without assistance.
