Now take a piece of graphite paper, to trace your picture with. Watch your fingers, don't touch the top surface of your wood where your picture is, or you'll have finger prints on your wood. Gently tape the tracing paper over the graphite paper on the wood. Most graphite paper has writing on the top, it should face up at you. This way the ink is on the wood under the tracing paper.
Pens cause ruts, which makes it harder to follow the pattern when burning the pattern.
Once the pattern is drawn, we heat up the iron and trace the pattern on the wood with the hot iron. Here are some more details for you. Soon the wood burning had moved right along and the group was finishing their projects. Well folks, there you have it, your first wood burning project. After they cool, we will spray them in a well ventilated area, with the graphic art sealer spray.