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Decal printed dial
- Thread starter Bart Cordell
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Looking for a gilt dial, 2 line 6538 to fit a 2824 movement in either tropical or black, preferably tropical. Can any of you genius transfer dial makers help me out and what would the price be. I’m based in the UK.
Some beautiful stuff being produced! Still need a nice tropical dial for my 6542. Keep up the great work!
I love hearing this! It's not so much the keyless on HZ for me, although it's terrible. There are many times it's the date function where it seems like something is wrong. If it's not feeling like it's about to be jammed, it's a weird feeling that the date wheel is turning imprecisely to just eventually crap out.
I've never managed to get this date to work - it was triggered at midnight and then in the middle of the day a half-day passed....... I took it apart and reassembled it many times until it broke.
I'm not so sure. I see some cool 60's-70's colors, functional lines, some Tudor chrono influences, and a hint of the 1655 Exp II.I was looking through the Singer prototype dials and thought I'd try something along those lines for a bit of fun.
I think I went way too far with it.
It's a cool design for me. Print-wise, I would thicken some lines that run through darker colors to give a better pop to the naked eye.
But... I don't think you went too far!!! I think you nailed it on many levels.
It makes me want to try your method. The results are cool. What type of decals do you use?An attempt at an actual Singer prototype dial.
Not happy with the darker blue. Came out more navy blue than royal blue
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This prototype was to be commercialized , and Singer named it as “harlequin” , then this nickname was given to the Day date 1803 , and I have never understood why since it has a simple brown dial!I was looking through the Singer prototype dials and thought I'd try something along those lines for a bit of fun.
I think I went way too far with it.
In any case thank you @janneau you enlighten with these dials !!!
I used a matt white spray paint as a base (which gives it the slightly textured surface of the original) The decal paper I used is this stuff : https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/286315677697?var=588453098404 and a matt clear Rustoleum over the decal print.
I went to get a more blue finish and got this:
The actual template is several shades lighter and it took trial and error to get what was actually printed to the right shade (my printer prints darker than the template)
Agreed on the Tudor. Going to re-do as Tudors as I think the snowflake hands would work with the indicies shapes. Probably going to a version of one of these colourways. I've lengthened the 12-3-6-9s and use a cream/ivory base on the dial
If you can produce dials at this level of detail and color I think you are going to stay as busy as you want making dials for as much as you want.Agreed on the Tudor. Going to re-do as Tudors as I think the snowflake hands would work with the indicies shapes. Probably going to a version of one of these colourways. I've lengthened the 12-3-6-9s and use a cream/ivory base on the dial
Tried a monochrome date version of the Singer-esque dial.
Also working on a color Ranger version:
Also working on a color Ranger version:
here are my first scrap training pieces.
Still a lot of things to fix. Having problems with my printer since he creates vertical print lines where the black ink is missing. Done head cleaning etc. multiple times to no avail
Will try printing from a different app next to see if that makes a difference.
the 6538 dial is not bad, i am more or less satisfied with my lume job. The 1675 Gilt i will sand down (was my first one) since i struggled with the decal to get it over the dial edges and the nozzle of the clear laquer spray can was crap and made puddles.
So more tweaking necessary
Still a lot of things to fix. Having problems with my printer since he creates vertical print lines where the black ink is missing. Done head cleaning etc. multiple times to no avail
Will try printing from a different app next to see if that makes a difference.the 6538 dial is not bad, i am more or less satisfied with my lume job. The 1675 Gilt i will sand down (was my first one) since i struggled with the decal to get it over the dial edges and the nozzle of the clear laquer spray can was crap and made puddles.
So more tweaking necessary
quick install. like it although there is room for improvements
Color one done and lumed:
B&W date one also lumed:
B&W date one also lumed:
Stripped the paint and printed indicies off the cheap dials I bought to practice on, and found they were silver sunburst underneath. The first two I re-painted white. I thought I'd try something with a sunburst base:
All lumed out today though
All lumed out today though