Owl & the PussyCat text

To roll the text onto my plate I had to make an illustrator file to use for the laser cutter.

I have issues with Illustrator. Could not work out how to adjust the text at all so had to find the exact font I wanted to use.

I decided on Bell MT italic and after I had sized it to fit my plate and spaced it out, I took it to the laser cutter and cut it out on card.

I then annealed my plate (used a flame on it until it went cherry red to soften the metal), and then glued the two pieces of card to either side to roll on the rolling mill.

I had to roll it though quite a few times to get the text deep enough and then i put it into the pickle to clean.