Colin and I visited Mike Phelan the other day, and I was asking Mike if he had any experience of using waterslide transfers, and whether they looked al right if applied to the rear of a glass dial and viewed through the glass, given that they're normally applied to the surfact of objects and view on that surface.
Mike showed me an excellent dial that he'd made using a waterslide tranfer, on which the lettering apperared to be gold, but was just the right shade of yellow to mimmic gold. It also had some appertures which were edged in white, and Mike had achieved that by using white rather than transparent paper. The transfer had been applied to the rear of the glass (with the lettering inverted of course, so that it was the correct way round when viewed through the glass). The end result was excellent, and looked 'factory fresh'.
I wonder if anyone on this forum has had an experience and sucess in making waterslide transfers? I've also heard it said that though we can't print white lettering on a conventional inkjet printer, if a file is given to Staples, they can do it by altering whatever clour the lettering is, so we could for example, provide artwork with black lettering and they'd print it white, but of course it would have to be on waterslide transfer paper.
I haven't followed it up but maybe one day...
This is one of the aspect of restoration that many, if not most of us struggle with.
Regards, David.
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