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General Category => Tutorials, Techniques and Tips => Topic started by: dirts on February 11, 2012, 11:37:44 am
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I decorated our beekeeper clubs float by putting free patterns from the National Honey Board on plywood. I then cut them out with a jig saw and painted them. I put the patterns on clear plastic sheets and then put those onto the overhead projector and put them on the plywood. I stood to one side and traced the image viewed on the wood. I did 5 of them and they were approximately five feet tall. I cut out the queen bee, worker, gatherer etc. Each year the local florist freely lends us flowers to adorn the float plus hives and members wearing bee suits.
P.S. I lent that overhead projector to my son and never got it back. I bought it at a school auction for $5.00. Suggestions is that if you lend people books or items you want returned mark them with an address label and then record in a notebook when and where.
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I also enlarge images with an overhead projector like yours. I did see one at Hobby Lobby a few years ago that would project an image on paper, not just on the clear film for $40. I have used mine to make a mural in my workshop and to make yard art and signs.
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Yanked my perfectly working projector out of the garbage at the hospital where I work. What a great tool. I have a large storage space on the 2nd floor of my workshop where I've set it up. Only problem is that my upper floor is not heated so in the winter I don't use it much.
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I used an overhead a couple if times for wall paintings, that really works fine.