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Logo using tracing paper

Just posting a quick tip on how I have added logos printed on to paper

Here I have printed a logo on plain paper and tracing paper.

The plain paper is glued to a piece of scrap and the tracing paper is glued to the headstock of a Darth Vader star wars books tin uke. I was careful cutting to the line on the plain paper version and cut a mm or three outside the line on the tracing paper. The more I look at it the more I think the plain paper one looks pretty good too.

I have in the past recessed a round logo like this on paper in a shallow hole made with a matching 25mm forstner bit and covered in clear epoxy. The tracing paper is not as effective with coloured inks.

Where the tracing paper method is clearly superior is for borderless logos (pun intended).

If you print at the top of the paper and trim it level you can reuse the rest of the paper most times.

I use a water based inkjet so superglue and spray varnish both worked well for embedding. I have used water based glues on stuff printed on a laser printer that ran when I tried to use superglue.

Note: Tracing paper not baking paper.

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Permalink Reply by KOOL DOG HOOCH on August 21, 2019 at 9:58am

You can buy wet slide off decal paper for your printer, just lightly clear coat before soaking in water.

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Permalink Reply by Titch the Clown on September 18, 2019 at 12:57pm

I have changed my technique slightly after someone on Ukulele underground luthiers lounge complained that water slide decals were easy to scratch, notably when sanding between coats of varnish.

I tested printing in reverse and laying the image face down. as you can see in the image below the reversed image has no sanding damage and the upright image is missing bits already with only a light sand.

Here is a more full size pic - before superglueing down

After superglueing down

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Permalink Reply by KOOL DOG HOOCH on September 18, 2019 at 3:14pm

Thank you for the heads up! I've been using my electric label maker with clear labels in it for now

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Permalink Reply by Amir Sagi on September 18, 2019 at 10:12pm

Hi

I would go with the water slide off decal for the logo, used it in the past. Now I do mother of pearl inlau, it takes practice, but it worth it

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