helpinghand

+1 on what Jay said. I've tried many brands but always come back to oracal

Customer wanting aprons done. I will be using either water based screen printing or vinyl depending on quantity. Has anyone ever done either on a garment that has the Teflon fabric protector on it? Would love some input on any techniques or tricks you used. Maybe it won't even affect it I don't know that's why i thought i'd check with y'all to get your input. Thanks in advance, Heidi PS if you used vinyl what brand? did it need to be for nylon or just regular?

This file was a mess....I do think I have it for you though. I use illustrator and cut studio and it should work fine for you now. Give it a shot and let me know how it works out. I had some time so played with it for you, I know how frustrating it can be sometimes. Heidi reuploaded as after Roxanne said still some extra lines I relooked at it and a few letters still had lines in them. Cleaned it up and tried cutting it, everything cut perfect for me. WSM_cleaned up.eps

Thanks for sharing!

I'd use this jacket as a tester now. Almost looks like it was under too much pressure and pulled the color of the jacket thru. Cut some strips of your vinyl and test with lighter pressure, temp adjustments etc. I've never had this happen but have also never used either of those vinyls. I've always used eco film or easy weed with best success. and i have those as my preference because they have very sticky backer sheet and I cut alot of very very small lettering and detail images.

just make sure you cut it reverse as you flip it over to heat press after weeding

Yes you can put transfer tape on it if it needs it. If small enough/one piece you can just peel the backer and attach.

Youngest son is working on a vehicle so when he gets his license in January he'll have his own vehicle ready to drive. A customer had brought me their chevy emblem off their truck a while back to have me wrap and my son brought his in wanting something cool done to it. he originally thought he'd just wrap it black but I said, how bout something in print. He's into both hunting and snowmobiling so i made up a design for both. he picked this one but now thinks he'll pick up another emblem from junk yard to have the other design done so he can switch them out lol gotta love kids. anyway, here is the emblem covered.

I like your redesign better than the original. good job!

helpinghand

I've used paper in my cutter but not to cut. i take a sharpie and put in instead of the blade to draw out the design.

I paid quite a bit more than that but they gave me full warranty and alot of samples. I think it's well worth $900

I have a roland gx24. instead of buying the actually stand for it I found a small narrow desk at our local Pamida that I bought and use. It's only a little bigger than my roland and works perfect. The media roller that comes with it has a small indent area along one edge that fits right under the back of the cutter.

Well my hubby found the hitch plates I had ordered before to try, which I hadn't gotten to of course, and wanted one done for his explorer. SO....we found a pic online (he's a cowboy) and I took it into photoshop, resized and put an oval around it and WALLA! Thought I'd share. Learned a little doing this like not to put flame directly onto the epoxy to remove bubbles as it will "cook" the epoxy and wreck it (had to remove some lol) also next one I'll mix up a bit more as I would like to have it a little thicker. But for my first, I like it and better yet, my hubby is so excited and not wanting to wait a few days to put it on his truck lol Heidi

very nice. I do wall art all the time but I don't think i'd ever get ambitious enough to do an entire ceiling WOW

autz, they have a bunch of free collection samples, download a few of those and look at them in your program and see how good they are to determine if it's good for you. I'm sure all their collections are of same quality.

Stu, It's called stage carving. Gives your images a 3 dimensional look. You pull parts of the image off in stages while you blast which will make some deeper than others. If you're not a memeber already you should join www.cuttingedgesandcarving.com forum. Many many knowledgeable and helpful sand carvers there. You can also google it "stage carving" and lots to read. I'm sure there are youtube videos on it also. The difficulty for me is figuring out which pieces to pull in which stage lol cause you're doing everything backwards.

good job. the addiction becomes worse. I am going to start trying to master the 3 dimensional blasting

good job you're hooked now lol

I don't have a solvent printer but have a customer asking about a rear window graphic from a photo. Is anyone able to give me a quote as to what you would charge me? Laminate included?

thanks.

thanks for the reply roxanne, I don't have a local sign supply. closest is like 3 hrs away that I know of so will have to get on the phone. What kind of questions do you typically ask a customer who is looking for a sign? I'm sure there are things to ask just like I have to for decals and t-shirts. I appreciate the help. Heidi

I'm still wondering what you use to "seal the edges" I've reread and don't find where anyone answered me. Is it just to prime and paint?

Oracal 631 is what I use for wall vinyl

Question on the MDO board. You said to seal it, what do you use to seal it with? I don't typically do signs but had a customer ask me today if I do and really hate to say no. I also need to make one for myself instead of just using a banner.