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This is my light box and no calligrapher should be without one. It's very, very helpful and
I'd like to demonstrate for you now just what I can do with a light box. I'm sure it will
give you enough imagination. So here's a diploma and I need to fill it out by placing a name
in the right place. The name needs to be centered and that's a trick in itself. So what I do
is I take, because I can see the light box, the light coming from up underneath, allows
me to do this. I take this in which I have, see what I have. I have it all marked out
here, and I line it up as absolutely, perfectly as I can possibly do. Alright and then usually
I end up with about a hundred or so names that I have to fill in around the area of
May. And so then I have to first do that name. Okay I have to rough it out on another piece
of paper. I need to do it quickly but I need to be efficient enough so that, so that I
can center it and be fairly good about how I center it. And then I want to find the center
of that just to be, just to be careful. The less guessing you do on this kind of thing
the better. So obviously I've already figured out what my lining and all my spacing needs
to be like. And now I can see through so now what I'm going to do, I'm going to place this
name far enough above so that I can use, just use my peripheral vision; it's not going to
get in the way. And I've got, I've chosen a number three speed ball for this particular
task. So now I have the texture of the paper to deal with, and my client likes the Gothic.