Looking for someone to do a custom paint/silkscreen job

[jimtaka]

I apologize if this is the wrong subforum, but it seemed the most appropriate.

I am looking for someone to do a custom paint and silkscreen job on a pedal for me. It's just a single pedal. Can you all recommend someone?

Basically I want to make a Retro-Sonic Phaser look like an MXR Script Phase 90:



Thanks!

[.Mike]

It's going to cost you a pretty penny to get someone to screen print one enclosure.

For example, Pedal Parts Plus would charge $8 for the painted enclosure, plus $150 setup fee, plus $10 for the screen printing, plus shipping. You're looking at about $175 out the door.

Why not try waterslide decals and clearcoat? Or even pay someone here who is good at waterslide decals to do it for you?

Good luck!

Mike

[jimtaka]

It's going to cost you a pretty penny to get someone to screen print one enclosure.

For example, Pedal Parts Plus would charge $8 for the painted enclosure, plus $150 setup fee, plus $10 for the screen printing, plus shipping. You're looking at about $175 out the door.

Why not try waterslide decals and clearcoat? Or even pay someone here who is good at waterslide decals to do it for you?

Good luck!

Mike

Apparently when I say silkscreen, I mean waterslide decal. I don't know anything about this stuff.

Can somebody explain the difference in silkscreen and waterslide decals please? So far I have an offer from a guy to do the whole thing for a reasonable price (I'm assuming waterslide decal here) and I also have an offer from a local guy that is needing to test out his new silkscreening equipment and said he would make the screen for me for also a reasonable price (slightly cheaper than the other guy is asking for the whole job).

What would be the way to go here?

[jkokura]

Well silk screen is better in reality, but it generally costs much more.

If you've got a local guy who says he can do silk screening I would go that way. If I could have my pedals silk screened, I would do it without thinking about it. My method isn't perfect but I like it. Waterslide decals are good except you can't get white print easily, but Silk Screening is the best hands down.

Well, maybe Slade would pick a multicolour etch... and if he's doing it I would too...

Jacob

[aquataur]

I do stuff like that for my designs, never thought about doing it for anybody else. But have a look at my gallery (aquataur.at.tf).
It is a different technology though...

have fun,

--helmut

[darron]

silk screening is the best way to go, but it's a horrible amount of work.

for example... to make this:




you need to sand and prep the enclosure, spray two coats of primer. reprep inbetween. spray 2-3 coats of base colour. silk screen the image on, then spray a few coats of clear. let it dry over night and bake it to cure the paints.


to actually silk screen, you need to make up a frame to hold the screen. make the screen which is a very fine mesh which only lets the paint through in areas. then you need to make a jig to hold the screen in the correct registration, half a millimetre or so above the pedal. then if you are a beginner maybe 1 in 50 of the screens to try to print will actually work. it's an art and a science to get the technique perfect....



if someone asked me to do ONE enclosure i'd ask them for about $500 lol. obviously you've found this cheaper though



the decals would mean that you don't use paint at all, it's just a computer printed transfer film which sticks on to the pedal and then you paint clear over the top of it. not very pro, but this is supposed to be DIY..... not miniature scale (1 unit) commercial production.