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I don't know the quality but they're all over etsy for less than that. I had someone ask to do two for him with cut vinyl. I calculated the first at $80, the second was simpler so I told him I'd do them both for $100. He said he could get two online for $60. I told him to get them online. He said he couldn't because the pair they sell online were a matching pair and he wanted two different designs, and they didn't have either design he wanted anyway.

This shouldn't be hard to find but I think you need three steps.. 1) Figure out what material you'll want to use. This is a little harder since you don't have a plotter to test material with yet. You'll have to look at it and determine if it'll work for the painting you want to do. If you think the material at the hobby store will work, buy some of it, look at it, handle it, cut a hole in it with a knife and practice painting with it. If it works, go on to the next steps. 2) Determine if the MH will cut it. The MH specs say it can cut up to 39 mil thick material. Thickness isn't everything, the material matters too. It can't cut 39mils of steel after all. But since you don't have a plotter to test with, I'd ask somebody to be sure once you've found a material. Google indicates that 4, 7 and 10 mil mylar are often used for stencils, and I bet that's what those 12x12 sheets are made of. That shouldn't be any trouble at all, if it works and if that's what it's made of. 3) Look for rolls. If you do settle on mylar, there seems to be a lot of rolls of it online. Whatever you choose, don't limit yourself to what's on vinyl sites, you might find what you need elsewhere. I was looking into helping make face shields for medical personnel using my plotter. I eventually found a clear plastic material used in the baking industry and got a couple feet to test it. It worked, but it wasn't wide enough and I didn't know the thickness, so I measured it with calipers then found a plastics manufacturer that sells large rolls of it to various industries in that thickness.

Priority Mail is what makes it expensive. Even their medium Priority box is $12 and small Priority box is $8.

Tahoma Bold and Interstate Mono are both close. The shape is pretty common, the base which is longer on the left than the right is not. You could find a match for the upper part and add a base, or chop off part of the base on Tahoma or Interstate

I think the app has all the same features at the bottom as the PC program. It just takes a lot of tinkering to get it right sometimes. I took a photo of my monitor, which always comes out poor, adjusted the contrast to the left until 3/4 of the letters started turning blue and here are the matches

https://www.dafont.com/a-charming-font.font and the bottom one is just about any of these:

I don't have any vinyl videos, but it's as simple as I described. It obviously only works for solid shapes.

This may sound dumb, but for something that small, try doing it without any transfer tape at all. Just cut the stripe, peel it off the paper, wet it, put it on, get it in the right place and squeegee it.

Can somebody run this through Find my Font? I just got a new PC and don't have it activated yet and the online matchers can't find anything. It's a Yamaha outboard engine but they're not factory. Inverted Nasty black and white trace

Nevermind, someone from FMF emailed me back very quickly and I got it activated. Looks like it's A&S Xtreme Script.

Try Clarenden, maybe a bold variant

I can't find it either. These guys did a sign and printed it too ("my happy place" is the same font). That "ce" looks so familiar, I swear I've used it before, but I can't find anything close in my own fonts. Does it have to be brush stroke or will solid letters work?

I do quite a few stencils, however I've never actually applied any. I sell them to painters and people who do airbrushing. I use Clear Choice AT65 and they all say it works great, but that's all I've ever used so it's possible they're just used to it and something else would be better.

I've ended up doing several large wall jobs recently and I think I've been lucky because they were some of the easiest jobs I've ever done. My install kit is about the same as yours. Vinyl, tape to mark the placement of where the decal needs to go, tape measure and level to find where it needs to go, ladder, squeegee. I just gave the wall a quick wipe down with a rag before starting. I do keep an install kit with a bunch of other goodies in my car so I had a bunch of other tools if I needed them, but so far that's all I've used.

I'm doing something for a local Nissan dealership that incorporates the current Nissan logo, which is a chrome emblem. I can't make that out of vinyl so I went to a sign/banner/wrap shop and got a decal printed, but it doesn't have the chrome appearance, it looks flat gray. The dealer says it won't work, it has to look more chrome. They know it won't be a mirror reflection like chrome vinyl, but it still has to have the shiny look on the left, not the flat gray look on the right. The place I had them printed said that's the best they could do. I went to 4 other shops and they all said they couldn't do it any better. At one huge, incredibly professional print shop, they called their sign specialist over to look at it and the first thing he said was "We can do it but the bevel won't look right and it'll look gray, not chrome." So, is it just impossible to print this? Can any printers explain why it's so hard? It's possible that everyone in my area is just bad at their job, but I take their word for it. I just can't really wrap my head around it though. The dealership is filled with sales brochures that have it printed on them. It seems so me like if it can be printed on paper, it could be printed on vinyl. I wish I had asked the last place I visited, but frankly, the place was amazing and I was so excited about some of their equipment and the other work they were doing, I forgot about it and asked about those things instead.

Where did you find the one on the left? It looks perfect. I thought about artwork and I'm mad at myself for not bringing it up, but they all gave me the impression that it couldn't be done. No, scratch that, they flat out told me it couldn't be done. I guess I need to work on my communication skills or something because I'm the common denominator in all this. Here's what I did at each shop: I showed them a sales brochure with the logo and asked if they could print a decal to look like that. They all said some variation of "it'll be gray and won't have the chrome look" or something (one wrap shop said they couldn't print silver ). I then showed them the gray decals I had done and they all said theirs would look the same. I just forgot about artwork and assumed it was impossible for some reason.

I needed to make a few 46 inch long stripes and a couple 14 inch decals in a color I don't use often so I ordered 5 ft of 751 " By The Foot Continuous." I received two pieces, one 49 inches and the other 18 inches. It worked, so I'm not really complaining about this time, but I often order small quantities that I need to be continuous and have time constraints. I could have been really screwed by non-continuous continuous vinyl.

Thanks, I don't usually have time to call during the day and I did do the self-service tool, I think. It wasn't a return request, but I did so something online and I ended up being emailed about it (which reminds me, I think I need to reply to their last email). They wanted photos of the vinyl with a measuring tape, but I had already used the vinyl, so they offered me a small credit. That's fine, I wasn't worried about money, and it was two small purchases involved anyway. The vinyl actually worked for me, but it could have been a problem if I hadn't ordered a little extra, and to happen twice in a week or so, I thought they should know or it could be a problem for a lot of people.

I'm definitely going to call them now because it happened again! I wasn't that worried about the first time and figured it was a one-time thing, but wanted people to know to check their order just in case. Well, lo and behold, I got another job over the weekend with an oddball color so I ordered 5 full rolls plus 2 yards of the oddball color. The 2 yards again came in two pieces, 55 and 24 inches.

I can't even imagine cutting decals by hand. That's crazy talk... but I kind of like the thought. Some of the things I do require me to cut vinyl by hand. It's never anything intricate like a logo, but I do sort of pride myself in my steady hand and precise knifework. So while I don't encourage you to follow this path because I think it would take years to be good at it, I'll still give a tip or two. It's easy to cut just the vinyl by cutting lightly. You really have to bear down fairly hard to cut both. Try using about the same pressure on your knife as you use with an ink pen and paper. In my experience, you won't be able to cut anything very well until you find a knife that works for you. I can't do anything with an exacto knife. I've used everything large and small. I bought one of those knives with about 30 different blades and found that they're all useless. My favorite knife is something like the NT Cutter knife with 30 degree blades. The standard angled blades are just as useless to me as a butter knife, but the 30 degree blades are amazing. It's the only blade I can freehand a straight line with or cut curves that are smooth and don't look wavy. Your favorite knife may be something completely different, but you probably have to find it. It's probably not what you happen to have laying nearby.

Is that a Camaro hood stripe? Chevrolet factory graphics use app tape like that. Toyota uses the same stuff in certain applications. I kinda wish I knew where to get it too, I have a specific application where it would work well. I've looked before but never found anything.

I have a customer wanting 4 logos for their business interior and I can't find a blank to put it on. Painted white aluminum would be best but some type of white plastic would probably work as well. I think I could get by with 30x60 inch blank, but 30x72 would be better. Any idea where to find a blank that size or an affordable place to get a few custom made?

Thanks guys. I think I can get them to go with acrylic. Maybe I should have explained better. It's a permanent fixture featuring the company logo in their very fancy lobby. Coroplast won't work and gator board looks iffy although gator board has some other products... that seem to be only available in multipacks that run upwards of $2000 for one of the materials I thought would be perfect. I have several sheets of aluminum composite that's more or less the same as DiBond/MaxMetal and have made several signs with a utility knife, but the edge is never perfect. It's good enough for most things but not really great for the interior of a fancy pants company. I could get one made at a metal shop, but I'd have to paint it myself, then probably have to wet sand and buff it. Ugh. I just assumed this was something you all probably ran across often and had just the place for premade custom sizes.

Is this a dumb question? Sorry, I don't do signs very often but it seems like every company only carries popular sizes, with 24x36 usually being the largest. Thanks. I don't think corrugated plastic would look nice enough. I thought of aluminum but I don't think I could cut it and have the edge come out looking perfect.

That's a hard color to match. I do a lot of pinstriping and that's a perfect match for a 3M pinstripe 085 Light Gold Metallic but 3M doesn't make vinyl rolls in that color anymore. I've looked at pretty much every vinyl manufacturer for vinyl to match that stripe and the best I've found is Avery Supercast 900 Metallic 217 Light Gold and Sharpline 044 Light Gold Metallic. The Avery looks perfect but if you put it on top of the Arizona Beige, it has a slightly different shine to it. It should be fine if you're putting it on the white part of the truck. I think Sharpline may be a better match but I've never used it, I just have it on my own color match list as a backup.