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 ...

Unless you’d like to spend hours with a toothpick and a tub of solder paste, stencils are the way to go whenever you’re placing SMD parts. While most commercial and industrial SMD stencils are ...

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 ...