Making straight fine lines

Mr. Canoehead · Post by **Mr. Canoehead** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 2:43 am

There could be and probably is a better way to make straight fine lines but any idea I had was to use something similar to a pie cutter with some sort of absorbing material cut into the shape of a wheel to replace the metal wheel already on a pie cutter. Any other ideas out there? any tips would help...

Mr. Badwrench · Post by **Mr. Badwrench** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 4:13 am

I don't get what you mean by "absorbing material". Like a sponge? That wouldn't cut anything. I'm all confused...

Chacal · Post by **Chacal** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 7:56 am

You mean like painting? Like a really narrow paint roller? That'd be in "Finishing", no?

Kylwell · Post by **Kylwell** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 9:35 am

Are you talking painting fine lines?

Finer than a .18 technical pen kind of fine lines?

Odd that you should come up with the pizza cutter wheel thought. Fine striping on wood furniture used to be accomplished using a wheel with a paint reservoir. Basically what you've come up with.

Or you could just lightly scribe a line in and fill it with a wash.

Umi_Ryuzuki · Post by **Umi_Ryuzuki** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 2:01 pm

kylwell wrote:...

Odd that you should come up with the pizza cutter wheel thought. Fine striping on wood furniture used to be accomplished using a wheel with a paint reservoir. Basically what you've come up with.

....

Well Rats, I was going to "invent" the micro paint roller with a paint resevoir, Now I am going to have to buy one.

Pat Amaral · Post by **Pat Amaral** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 2:16 pm

What about something like a Pinstriping tool?

I found these guys. They might have what you have in mind.

I know there are others out there. Micro Mark used to sell something along these lines but I couldn't find it on their website.

Kylwell · Post by **Kylwell** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 2:20 pm

Fancy.

Here's the one I knew about.

Mr. Canoehead · Post by **Mr. Canoehead** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 3:05 pm

yea it's for pin striping detail and I thought I put this thread in the finishing forum, sorry for the confusion. alot of help already though I figured that there was something out there that would meet my needs.

Thanx all

Kylwell · Post by **Kylwell** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 3:07 pm

In a pinch I've assembled a doubled bladed Xacto, layed Tamiya masking tape down and used the twin-blade to trim a very fine line out of it.