If you make Civil War camp items, you're familiar with the often tedious process of cutting stencils by hand. That is, assuming you can find a stencil to reproduce or cut out to begin with. The hard tack stencils easily take me 1-2 hours or a couple episodes of some Ken Burn's Civil War. The smaller ones I can print in card stock which cuts easier and lasts longer. The big ones are done on large format printer paper and if I'm lucky I get two uses out of them. I tried calling all the print shops all over my local area and the only one who even considered making reusable stencils for me...no lie...wanted to charge $500 for these two stencils! Disheartened, I went back to doing it the old way for several more months. Then, one day, I had an epiphany: check out Etsy! Going over a few listings I found Stencil Revolution. I emailed them my files and I got a very friendly response right away. We emailed over a couple of days due to the time difference of Eastern and Pacific time and with shipping, they only cost about $50! I got them in the mail today and they are so much more crisp than anything I could do with an Xacto plus with them being made out of heavy duty material, are easily washable, and infinitely reusable. On top of all of that I got them in less than a week! I'll be having them make up a stencil for my new Sharps ammo box design here shortly. If you're looking for your own reusable stencils, I highly recommend Stencil Revolution. Click the link to visit their website.
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