Flash wrote:
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We're making propellers over on the Chugger's Group. Right now guys
are mostly gluing-up the blanks that will become propellers. One of
the things that needs doing is creating the TEMPLATES that will be
needed in the final stages.
... Glue the pattern to the paper, cut it out with a scalpel. Or
glue it to the metal, SCORE the metal and flex the metal back & forth
until it breaks along the line of the score mark.

"Doesn't work," sez the Big Fella on the phone. ...
-R.S.Hoover


RS, drawn aluminum has a type of grain pattern, like wood. Mebbee you're
plastering the cans down in the wrong orientation? Try cutting 90-degrees
different?

Flash


If you don't want to use scissors on thin aluminum shimstock, perhaps a
hardboard, oil-tempered even, would do the trick. That needs a
jigsaw, no doubt.

Brian W