Yard Plotted stencils

North Pole Signpost

Before you cut anything. Print with page scaling set to 100 percent or "actual size", never "fit to page". Then measure the ruler printed under each shape. If it does not measure what it says it measures, the printer scaled the page and every dimension on it is wrong.

Direction arrow, 20 in.

Finished size 20" wide by 5-1/2" tall. This one prints at 25 percent, because the real thing is bigger than a sheet of paper. Two ways to use it: take it to a copy store and ask for 400 percent enlargement, or copy it square by square onto your stock, where every printed square is 4 in. on the real piece.

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The point is 6 in. deep. Trace it on the end of each board, then shorten the straight part for the three shorter arrows.