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Cabinet stencils

By indy5mike

10 years ago


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    #52 9 years ago

    I talked with a local laser cutting place and they thought it would be ~$200 or so to laser cut thin metal sheet for a machine's worth of stencils. Most of the cost was the raw material. Does anyone have a photo of what the originals actually looked like and what was done to align them to the cabinet? Was the cabinet on its side to make it lay as flat as possible?

    #71 9 years ago
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    Align using your bottom edge and both ends as your overall perimeter. regarding "lining up" or registration it's pretty simple: Take the first stencil you cut, then lay the next uncut stencil on top, line up your edges, then punch a hole through both pieces in a solid area. Do this in 3 or 4 places towards the 4 corners. Then cut your second stencil. When you use the first stencil either take a pencil and draw the 4 holes onto the cabinet or even use a little overspray. Then lay 2nd stencil and line up holes again. Once you done painting let dry and wipe off the marks with some denatured alcohol. Thats exactly how I lined up this Rocky. the color looks off in the photo but it's spot on in person.

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    I actually did something quite similar on my own cabinet paint job. What I was really looking for was how the factory did it with the metal stencils. They would have been in a big hurry and it had to be something simple. Maybe three pins. Two to register on the bottom cabinet edge and slide it until the remaining pin touched the side of the cabinet then spray.

    If I do make a metal stencil I wanted to replicate the original registration method.

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