How Can I Make Vynil Decal?

[theforgotten]

Hi there!

For a long time I want to make a vynil decal and to cover my guitar's body.I live in Macedonia (if you know where is).It's a small country near Kosovo,Greece,Bulgaria and here it's very hard for me to make vynil sticker.The print factorys don't print less than 1000 for example but that's not the problem.Here a vynil sticker will cost me minimum 100$ and maybe more.So i decided to ask you if I can make vynil sticker at home and how.Please help me.Write everyting i need.Thanks to everyone and God bless!

[Stew]

Two questions:

1. How big of a surface area do you need?

2. Why vinyl? Why not waterslide acrylic?

[Hitone]

theforgotten

I would suggest looking to the internet for your vinyl needs. What you need to look for is a vinyl signage person not a printer. Unless you want to have something printed on it. That would be like the advertisements you see on bus' or those crazy advetising hummers. I get my logo cut out of vinyl to get a super crisp look. I get about 20 - 30 at a time.

There was a guy selling vinyl kits for guitars. You might do a search to see what his deal is.

http://www.stripeshop.com/

Good Luck

[Cole-TheFalcon-Will]

http://www.speedysigns.com/

You can send them the text/logo you want or use their online lettering generator to make your own logo using hundreds of different fonts.

[theforgotten]

First of all thanks guys for the help.I'm new in this things and I don't understand some things very well.I like to make a sticker and cover my guitar's body and then with lacquer cover the whole body so the sticker will stay under the lacquer.So first of all i have to know what kind of sticker do I need(vynil or something else) and if I can make it at home what do I need.Thanks again and long live!

[manquesa]

There's a tutorial on this site for using cloth material like a bedsheet stretched over the guitar and then sealing it with clear lacquer. Look that up in the tutorials section. Maybe for what you're trying to do you can get a plain white sheet and then print your design on Iron On Transfer Paper and then transfer your design onto the sheet., then cover your guitar with that.

Just a thought. Might not be the best answer.