Steve....Looks to me that the stencils MAY have been hand made.. and in all honesty they did a pretty good job... it almost lines up.. almost -LOL.
The hatching inside the lettering... groan... the hatching. Steve - i know why they didnt do it, i havent counted the hatchings yet but will do next time im weeding out a set of stencils for this.
I can normally make a stencil file in about 6 - 8hrs all up.. i cant do all that in one hit, i dont work on computers ( I build stuff instead) and i find it hard to sit in one place staring at a screen making minute adjustments to lines for long periods of time.
HAUNTED HOUSE took me about 15 hrs to make.
FATHOM took me well over 25 hours.. its was a nightmare and mainly because of the hatchings.. there are hundreds of them all individually shaped and so each one gets made in its own right.
And then get this... you make one side and your intention is to mirror it for the other yes?..wrong.. FATHOM is done really cleverly and the letters are different in sizing to suit the cabinet. So one side has the letters expanding horizontally and the other decreasing.. this makes them look the same on the cabinet as one end is wider than the other - its an optical illusion.
This of course means that each side gets made individually.. even the mermaid tail is different in width... VERY clever stencil!
So why not make the same pattern???.. i know... i know alright!
