How to make decals ???

[UP-G]

Hi,

how do you make decals for your own pedals and how to put them on your pedals so they stay fixed

Greetz

[John Lyons]

Buy some waterslide decal paper/stock from Smallbear electronics. You can photocopy on the lazer paper or inkjet print on the inkjet paper...
Cut the decal a little bit snaller than your box and soak it in water. Then transfer it to your box. When it dries you coat it with spray laquer or polyurathane...

You can get a color photocopy made at staples/kinkos/office depo if you want something full color.

[UP-G]

Buy some waterslide decal paper/stock from Smallbear electronics. You can photocopy on the lazer paper or inkjet print on the inkjet paper...
Cut the decal a little bit snaller than your box and soak it in water. Then transfer it to your box. When it dries you coat it with spray laquer or polyurathane...

You can get a color photocopy made at staples/kinkos/office depo if you want something full color.

Thanks !!!
When you put it on the box, do you see the color of the box you painted before

[Melanhead]

yup ...

You can also use Xerox Transparent window  Decal sheets ... Print, cut out, remove backing, stick 'em on.

I do all mine with Dark T-Shirt transfer know though, but they're hard to do on painted boxes. I've been leaving the tops of the boxes aluminum, and painting the sides only.

a quick search wil turn up tons of info ...

[TryingToDo613]

There are two types of decals from a company called http://www.papilio.com/.  I ordered the clear, not the white, and was dissapointed with what I could do. Clear relies on a white background to print it's colors so you can only print things in black for non-white boxes. That rules out printing on dark/black boxes entirely. Now, you probably don't know this, but your color inkjet printer does not print white at all. Try it.  That's why the clear decals don't work.

The other slip decals are a white sheet and you print on that white sheet, like paper. Color come out true and you can print on a black box, but what I'm assuming is that people use a background color on the decal that matches their paint and prints that color onto the white decal material as well. Then you cut around your design and slip your decal over the paint.

Invest in a decal squeegie. Air bubbles are a pain.

And please somebody correct me if I'm wrong. I don't get it. -ph

[jrem]

well, I would think the best way to go is silk screen, but unless you're doing volumes it's not effective.  I have a guy that has a vinyl letter / banner art cutter, he does my layouts on a mac, then sends it to his printer/cutter, then I have the stick'ems to put on the boxes. 

they're sweet, but watch for bubbles.

Regards, John.

[John Lyons]

The water slide decals are clear. If you have a dark colored pedal they black photocopy is hard to see. The way to get white letters is to use white rub on lettering on the decal paper and then place this on the pedal as usual. Or you can rub them right on the pedal and then clear coat. 

Here are some examples: http://www.mrdwab.com/john
look at the pedals page and the amps page has some on the zacks amp page at the bottom.

[bancika]

I used foil for shop window decoration. There's a company here that does this, so I gave them design in CorelDraw and they cut foil with computer controlled machine. It turns out very precise. Check out

[rockgardenlove]

kustompowder.net does nice powdercoated boxes for 10-15 bucks...really good deal.