03-10-2020, 08:36 AM
"Andy, they took the long route to you! You only live just down the road from Helen Casey" Strange are the ways of The force Jeffrey.
Nice boat Mike and some cracking fitting out. Looks from the pic that your on the oggin not inland waterways. The nearest i got in one of my boats to the see was going to the mouth of The Wash, which was scary at the turn of the tide, the engine was essentially redundant. Anyroad back to lettering, Letraset is a bit fiddly, especially if you have controls in the way, i had trouble with it lifting and dissolving when lacquer or thinned nail varnish was applied. These water transfers of Terry's seem to be thicker and I've not applied a protective coat, hopefully they'll be ok. Oh, one last thing I've noticed, some Letraset seems to go off being hard to transfer the letter or they fragment; degradation of the ink perhaps.
Re labelling in general I've looked at various ways of doing it, I applied Letraset to brass plates, see pic that worked ok. I tried salt water etching too, I used nail varnish as the mask which dissolved quickly, so will try other masks. I've also seen labels that come from your local key maker/engraver, plain but functional. the holy grail would be silk screen printing but that's a lot of work for one off's. Also saw an amp that was CNC engraved and ink/enamel paint filled in the recesses, that looked really good but needs a CNC milling machine and a few hours in CAD. Of coarse there's other PC/printer options all ok if you like PC software shennanigans.
There's no easy way to do it, but it really does make a DIY project look a hell of a lot better, so it's worth the time taken. Andy.
Nice boat Mike and some cracking fitting out. Looks from the pic that your on the oggin not inland waterways. The nearest i got in one of my boats to the see was going to the mouth of The Wash, which was scary at the turn of the tide, the engine was essentially redundant. Anyroad back to lettering, Letraset is a bit fiddly, especially if you have controls in the way, i had trouble with it lifting and dissolving when lacquer or thinned nail varnish was applied. These water transfers of Terry's seem to be thicker and I've not applied a protective coat, hopefully they'll be ok. Oh, one last thing I've noticed, some Letraset seems to go off being hard to transfer the letter or they fragment; degradation of the ink perhaps.
Re labelling in general I've looked at various ways of doing it, I applied Letraset to brass plates, see pic that worked ok. I tried salt water etching too, I used nail varnish as the mask which dissolved quickly, so will try other masks. I've also seen labels that come from your local key maker/engraver, plain but functional. the holy grail would be silk screen printing but that's a lot of work for one off's. Also saw an amp that was CNC engraved and ink/enamel paint filled in the recesses, that looked really good but needs a CNC milling machine and a few hours in CAD. Of coarse there's other PC/printer options all ok if you like PC software shennanigans.
There's no easy way to do it, but it really does make a DIY project look a hell of a lot better, so it's worth the time taken. Andy.
