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Permalink Reply by The Capo Kid on July 2, 2014 at 10:05pm

 Contact  Slowpaw Steve T  he puts them on his builds

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Permalink Reply by Slowpaw Steve T on July 2, 2014 at 11:00pm

Yes he does!   you can buy A4 printable waterslide paper off ebay very reasonably, after working out the size of the decal print your image, for good measure do a few and fill up the whole sheet. 

The finished print will need to be fixed with fixative spray used for pastel paintings, again on ebay. When dry a couple of coats of spray lacquer, the kind you use on your guitar , to strengthen the decal membrane.

when completely dry, after a few hours, cut out your decal keeping away from the printed ink area which is sandwiched between the membrane and your laquered surface.

On your guitar the wooden surface you are attatching the decal to needs to be absolutely smooth, spray it a couple of times with lacquer gently sanding between coats, leave til completely dry.

Put the transfer decal into tepid water for a couple of minutes and it will start to peel, gently peel off and place onto the wood surface, you'll be able to mess around getting it straight for a little while, then leave to dry for several hours, spray again with laquer a couple of times gently sanding betwewen coats..and there you have it! (-:

 

willl post up an image later today..

 

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Permalink Reply by Alan Garrett on July 3, 2014 at 12:24pm

Thanks!  love your logo!

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Permalink Reply by Dan Sleep on July 3, 2014 at 12:18am

I use water slide decals on all my headstocks.

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Permalink Reply by brdfrd on July 3, 2014 at 12:23am

Yes--they're great. I used them to add the halftone images on this uke body:

 

Aside from what's already been covered, you may want to apply several finish coats and wet sand in between--to get rid of the visible edges of the decal. When looking at the decal, you'll be able to see a step, the thickness of the decal--it'll be more obvious with a glossier the finish. I would suggest 2 or 3 coats before the first pass wet sanding, just to avoid cutting into the decal.

 

Brad 

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Permalink Reply by Alan Garrett on July 3, 2014 at 3:27am

Very cool!

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Permalink Reply by Jo Jacobsen on June 5, 2015 at 2:56pm

What a beautiful and unusual design! Is that flat piece on the edge of the top of the guitar made of metal?

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Permalink Reply by The Capo Kid on July 3, 2014 at 12:26am

 So are we talking just a normal inkjet printer or a laser jet printer ?

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Permalink Reply by brdfrd on July 3, 2014 at 12:40am

Laser printer--they might have the paper for inkjets, but I'm not certain. Just google water slide decal paper--you'll get a bunch of results.

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Permalink Reply by Alan Garrett on July 3, 2014 at 3:26am

Laser printer

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Permalink Reply by Slowpaw Steve T on July 3, 2014 at 9:03am

normal inkjet printer, I recommend the Canon Pixma range of printers with 5 easy to change ink cartridges,  good quality images and very reliable (-:

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Permalink Reply by Dan Sleep on July 3, 2014 at 1:33am

http://www.papilio.com/inkjet%20waterslide%20decal%20transfer%20pap...

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