Mark Hammer, an answer for you for once

[Mike Nichting]

Hey Mark,
I saw your question about the T-shirt transfer and thought I would send a seperate thread for you about this so you would be sure to read it.

The white lettering comes from the t_shrit transfer paper. It is white. You can use MS Paint to design your pedal. You first choose the color of the background and then the color of your lettering to put on top of that background. Be it white or yellow or

 The transfer material is a bit expensive but you can get about 3-4 BB sized boxes out of one sheet. Mark you should definitley try this out.
After you make your design you print it out( inkjet is fine) and then iron it on your box top per the instructions that come with the transfer.
Then let it cool and spray the box with epoxy or laquer. I have used both and the work equally as well.

  Best of luck Mark~!!!!  I'm glad I could answer a question for you this one and only time I'm sure  :lol:

Mike Nichting

[Mike Nichting]

I forgot to add. Drill the box first and then use an exacto knife or the like to cut the holes out of the transfer very carefully.

Peace,
Mike N.

[Mark Hammer]

Excellent!!  Many thanks, Mike.  WE have a nice crisp colour laser at work so I think I may just pick some up.

"Expensive" is relative.  I bought a can of orange spray paint from Wal-mart or somewhere the other day, and thought "Great!  Only two and a half bucks and I have another colour to choose from!"  Well, I spray it on top of a baked coat of primer on a 1590BB and while the surface of the box looks okay, the sides run.  I bake it in my little toaster oven until its hard enough to sand down and I try and even out ripples in the coat.  I figure that with the sanding and nice textured surface the next coat can't possibly run, especially if I spray it on thin, right?  Wrong.  It ran again.  Of course, to bake it, you have to set the box down flat on the baking rack, and that just seems to make the stuff on the side keep running and bunching up.

Right now the spray can is nearly empty and I still haven't gotten to the point where I can put on lettering and lacquer.

If one sheet can do four 1590BB's, then based on my experience, it would have to cost more than $10 a sheet to start being "expensive".  Sometimes, even stuff that looks pricey can be cheaper and stuff that looks cheaper can be more expensive. :?

[Mike Nichting]

Yep I see you're point Mark.
I think they are $15 a pack or somewhere in there.
I forget how many sheets, maybe 7 or so so I guess they aren't expensive after all when you think of it like that.
I'm broke more than not so $15 is a lot to me  :oops:

I bet a laser printer would be absolutely awesome~!!!  I would try MS paint pro as it has many more options than regular paint does. Try downloads.com and it is free to try.

Be well Mark and thanks for all the great info you provide~!!!

Mike Nichting

[Chris R]

paint shop pro is free to try also

http://www.jasc.com/download_4.asp?prod=K-PSP8-USDIR

C

[idlefaction]

i'm sure the cool people are all using GIMP tho  
http://www.gimp.org/

or if you're unlucky enough to be on win32:
http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32/

*chuckle*