Some of you were asking where I get my custom 'Dry Transfer' logos made - here is the link:
Measure twice, cut once...
Thanks for that @markbailey ! Gonna find a similar supplier more locally, but at least I know what to look for now 🙂
Thanks for posting the link. You’ve certainly cleared a path through the mine field of sourcing supplies for all us amateurs. It makes life a lot easier.
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@markbailey thanks for that, do you know of any non-spray finishes that work well over them?
Given the economy of scale clearly A3 is best “value” which also means I’ll have to make many many guitars 🙂
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Thanks for this Mark. I was just thinking about this very thing this afternoon.
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Russ
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For anyone who’s contemplating using these people they happily sent me some samples to use to test out finishes on. The samples went on really well too! I’ve a couple of other avenues to try with this after having nothing but failure with homemade water slide decals before I end up having to commit to footing the bill for a sheet of these!!!
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…turns out I calculated the price wrong, A5 sheet in two colours was quoted to me at just under 170, now I really can’t justify that. Think I’ll just buy a pen and learn to write neatly 🤔
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It is a bit much for a one off.
People seem to have quite a bit of success with DIY transfers on YouTube.
I also wonder about screenprinting something.
But I've just remembered that there is a little CNC sitting in our hackspace which I don't think has been fired up since it was brought in because noone's had a use for it.. but now I'm wondering if it would work for inlays. I have some very pretty gold coloured mother of pearl offcuts.
I'll have to look into it.
People seem to have quite a bit of success with DIY transfers on YouTube.
I’ll have a look, maybe there are different brands I could try. Home crafted dry rub didn’t work well as it’s ultimately a big sticker. In the past, water slide ones have reacted badly with the finish coats.
@jonhodgson inlaying would be nice but don’t have the equipment to do that well by hand or access to a cnc. I’ve been looking at screen printing though and it seems you can get stuff to make the masks that is photo sensitive so I would still be able to print the design on the computer and let chemistry do the rest. I’ll post about it off that seems viable.
Other suggestion I had was a template and spray paint but the problem here is making the template accurate when you have to cut it with a craft knife just isn’t realistic for some of the design I want.
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@Tej, I thought about laser cutting a template for paint, but the problem with that is you need a design with no holes in it, but it might be a good solution if your design works in that respect.
I'm looking at hot transfer paper. You have to print it with a laser printer, but we have one at the hackspace. You're also supposed to use a heat press, but some people seem to do ok with a normal iron and I've looked and I think I could make a small headstock sized heatpress quite affordably (might be overkill for a single guitar, but maybe I can think of other projects to use it for)