Perhaps my methods are considered old fashioned, but when transferring my designs to metals for piercing I use this method. I bright polish the metals surface, de grease the polished surface, paint the metal with white poster paint, draw my design on tracing paper, then I use carbon copy paper between the traced design and metal and trace the design lines with a hard pencil. Now the design is drawn on the metal I mark in the design with a scriber before finally washing off the white paint, leaving my design clear on the polished surface metal. On a special job I will then engrave the design before piercing.
If I am making an item with a repeat design, such as my bowl piercings, I use the carbon paper method to mark out the copper patterns which I then pierce out and use to mark the designs around the bowl surface using a scriber to mark the design before engraving pre piercing.
James
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