My best work with decals so far

[ALA]

Finished this one for a friend this morning. It's just a slim line with Copper hardware (purchased from the Corian King) and Ash given to me by a friend. I've done a few decals but it has been a trying experience to say the least. This is my best thus far on working with decals. The area on the clip that looks like the finish is cracking up is reflections...please over look this. My photography is not good at all.
Oh, and 2 post in 1 day! Hope you enjoy. Any and all comments are welcome!

 

[lion6255]

Very nice.. I too and trying decals it defiantly has a learning curve

 

[Wright]

Good Job!

 

[ALA]

Very nice.. I too and trying decals it defiantly has a learning curve

One big improvement for me was using distilled water. I learned this from some one here on the forum but can't remember who...

 

[dexter0606]

Really nice job!
Too bad somebody took a black marker to the barrel though :biggrin:

 

[ALA]

Really nice job!
Too bad somebody took a black marker to the barrel though :biggrin:

Yea, I hated to do that but didn't know how my friend would feel about his dad's name shot out into cyber world

 

[flippedcracker]

wow, pretty awesome. this has convinced me I need to get into decals.

 

[warthog]

I did some deer hoof prints one time and my customer said that they looked cheesy because they looked like decals. So he wanted me to inlay black sand into the wood to look like hoof prints and charge the same as I did for the decals. Just goes to show ya...you can't please everyone.

 

[toyotaman]

I did some deer hoof prints one time and my customer said that they looked cheesy because they looked like decals. So he wanted me to inlay black sand into the wood to look like hoof prints and charge the same as I did for the decals. Just goes to show ya...you can't please everyone.

The price would go up about 15.00 for the extra work.

 

[toyotaman]

That is an excellent job on the decal. Great looking pen too.

 

[ALA]

Thanks for the kind words!

 

[TBCbushings]

What do you need to do to the decals before you put them in water. I heard you need to seal them first. Getting ready to do one and wanted to make sure I was going down the right path! Thanks in advanced.

 

[George417]

Can anyone point me to a small NHRA decal that I could place on a pen?

send a pm please.

 

[navycop]

Can anyone point me to a small NHRA decal that I could place on a pen?

send a pm please.

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[DestinTurnings]

I have probably done 2000+ decals on all manner of items. Here is the tutorial I made about 5 years ago for the rodbuilding community. The exact same process can be used for pens. If anyone has any questions, please feel free to shoot me a PM.

As an FYI, I no longer build rods and let my website go when I was in Afghanistan. If you need to email me, use the cox.net address or the one in my profile.

Dave

http://destinturnings.com/decal_making_tutorial%20by%20David%20Rogers.pdf