STOP TRUMP & CO

Still support Trump, even after everything that's happened? Have I got a stencil for you!

Things are quickly escalating. It's time to make your voices heard: Trump and his people must go. They must be stopped.

I've made a new mini-stencil design for you all to share. This design is 11" x 14" represented by 1100 px X 1400 px for 100 pixels per inch. I'll admit, it's a bit of a pain in the ass to trace and cut, but the results are worth it:

After nearly a year with the turd running our country, I figured it was about time to update the stencil a bit. This new SVG has an updated '25 with space between some cuts widened to make the stencil more sturdy. Link to the SVG can be found here.

I ended up taking what I learned from the last post and applied it here, offsetting the vector graphic by 1/32" first before making a copy and finally painting with it.

Here's the original post:

If you've been paying close attention, you'll probably notice that my stencil designs tend to get thinner once applied to a sign or a surface. This is easily tested using my latest experiment:

When scaling an image of my applied stencil to the original vectoral design, we can see that there are some small loses shown as a white outline:

This loss is small but enough to alter the piece noticeably. Let's fix this!

For this experiment, I'm going to measure the size of a square as it goes from being a 1" x 1" graphic to an X" x X" spray painted square so we can find out just how much we're losing. (I had considered doing circles, but those are too hard to cut.)

Something to bear in mind is that we're trying to measure offset from intended thickness, rather than just thickness. We're technically measuring offset twice the way we're doing it:

The other thing is that my ruler isn't very good and it's hard to tell where to measure from in my photos (especially with the camera as close as it is), but I'll let you know what I measured.

For the first test, I did a 1" x 1" square graphic and traced it onto some poster paper:

It's not obvious in the photo, but this is very close to 1".

I'm going to cut ahead a bit here, but what I ended up doing is tracing this square onto some poster paper, cutting it, tracing this new stencil onto more poster paper, and cutting that one too.

I then took these two stencils, spray painted their design onto more poster paper, and measured the resulting applied stencils:

The "original" applied stencil measured 31/32", which means it had an offset of -1/64":

The applied copy measured 15/16", which is an offset of -1/32".

Ok, so here's the cool part: we can compensate for this. If we apply an offset to our design but in the opposite direction, it should result in an applied stencil at about the correct thickness.

So, to test the theory, I started again but this time with a 1-1/16" square:

I then performed the same operations I did for the first test and measured the resulting squares again:

This time, when applying the copy-stencil, we end up with a square that's very close to 1":

Success!

So, bottom line - at least for me, going forward - is I'll want to offset the graphic a little first before tracing it onto paper.

If I intend to go from graphic to stencil to surface, then I'll want to offset the graphic first by +1/64".

If, however, I intend to make copies of a stencil, then the graphic will need to be offset by +1/32" first.

I've yet to test my vectorized stencil design until just the other day. I created a template stencil first, then traced the design onto three papers, and finally spray painted them. Some of these will be cut and used to spray the design, others will be kept uncut and preserved as is.

The vectorized design can be found here:

The original design can be found here:

There's word that Trump is likely to be impeached again soon. Bear in mind this does not guarantee his removal - the first two failed to, after all - but this time might be different. He's blatantly and openly disobeying lawful court orders. This dangerous disregard for laws and our Constitution is what will likely result in Republicans finally giving up on him.