It’s not exactly trivial to cut them out by hand. [Juan] recently learned a new trick to make cutting solder stencils a less painful process. He uses a laser cutter to cut Mylar sheets into ...

Stencils used to come from the cubbies of my ... one of the biggest pinch-points in this process: labeling and cutting out the paper. While mere mortals armed with vanilla inkjet printers will ...

After cutting the image, Kuali’i sandwiches it ... Right: Ian Kuali'i, koa wood kapa beaters etched using cut-paper stencils. Courtesy of Ian Kuali'i Kuali’i was also brought up believing ...