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Bart Cordell

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This V3 dial is very nice. I'm just afraid the 6 are not enough opened for my printer. I will see on a next test print.

If these are 26mm, these blank cartel would be nice for my next 5513 gilt dial project.

I could tap your case.

Adjusting the stem length is an other thing. I make it for my HR and my Big Dazza, and I'm convinced I failed it. I read some tutorial about cut stem but I don't achieved to do it well. I have problem to screw the crown on my HR sometimes, and I don't know if I cut it too long or to short on my silix.

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Printing test this morning on premium semi-glossy paper and decals. Its nice but it's not as good as on screen. Thin details like SWISS are not well printed.

The final result can only be seen on brass plate.

 

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7 hours ago, Bart Cordell said:

Printing test this morning on premium semi-glossy paper and decals. Its nice but it's not as good as on screen. Thin details like SWISS are not well printed.

The final result can only be seen on brass plate.

 

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I think it might be time to see what a really high DPI-printer could do with those templates.

A tip is to use the gif-files and insert them in a Word-doc and then print to avoid working with 30000 x 20000 pixel Photoshop print files. 

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Don't have much time to improve printed decals these days.

But I worked on last hologramet's photoshop file. I have also drawn a 26mm 5513 gilt dial. It's almost ready, I'm waiting for blank dials from generous donators.@hologramet ;)

Waiting, some pics for followers.

Under bedroom lamp

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And today was a sunny day in Britanny

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More improvements soon.

Thanks for reading.

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wow - this is a cool thread.

I've done some waterslide decals for printing graphics on a guitar amplifier and a few pedals I've built.  Once you get the technique, they can be very effective.

how would these look from a high end color laser?  

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I think I have finished the 6538 and 5513 photoshop dials. After many hours of retouch I decided to print on decals. And the result is very good.

Now I let it dry naturally then I will spray gloss varnish to protect ink.

Can't wait to see it pasted on dials.

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Next I will draw a 1675 dial.

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I'm looking to make one of these for a tempus machina build.  How do you manage to get the gold from the dial plate to show through the white once you have pasted the print on the plate?  Sorry for the noob question but I have no idea about this process.  Thanks!

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Very nice outcome; eager to see the end result...

Looking great!

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Thanks !

I'm very satisfied with My Photoshop work and the decal print results. The details are sharp enough.

Sprayed gloss varnish this morning. I hope I could paste it on nice brassed dials tomorrow.

More pics soon...

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Amazing technique and results:)

Thanks !

After let it dry few hours...

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Test on my Cartel 5512/13 case

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Next step, prepare hands and lume.

I need advices for hands. Silver or gold ? I assume these 5513 gilt dials were accompanied by silver hands but I'm not an expert.

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3 hours ago, Bart Cordell said:

 

Thanks !

After let it dry few hours...

 

Test on my Cartel 5512/1xt step, prepare hands and lume.

I need advices for hands. Silver or gold ? I assume these 5513 gilt dials were accompanied by silver hands but I'm not an expert.

Hi, I´ve tried both silver and gilt hands and the gilt ones are so amazing under different lighting conditions/ reflections in the sun or semi-glare in the dark I never went back. As for period correct the objective often is to re-build it as it left the factory. In real life (and in our case out of budget reasons) I often just jump the step and fit whatever is at hand. This is what a watchmaker in the sixties or seventies/eighties in some remote african location or tropical island would had done: attach the hand/ the crown or the plexi that was available, not the one from the RSC center. Even RSC centers started attaching the thick GMT-hour hand to early 6542 or 1675 GMT-Masters that use the small GMT-hour-hand if serviced. It´s only in modern times that because of the value these pieces are retro-fitted again:)

To bring the decal-dials yet to another level they´d need a puffy, creamy relume to give them that depth of 3-D effect. Below 2 samples with silver and with gilt hands, home-relumed with a mixture of acrylic white/raw sienna/yellow ochre and Nescafé/lume powder. Some day these will get the Athaya-crown attached, by now I go with the above philosophy (have the crown, just didn´t want to break the stem and destroy the tube - if it needs drilling and retaping I´m stuck and they just work relentlessly well as they are).

What fascinates me about Your project is it opens limitless possibilities for special editions/ tropical vintage pieces... it´s mindblowing:)

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and silver

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I prefer gold hands too. And I don't have silver second in stock.

I use lume powder, acrylic varnish, a bit of acrylic white paint, and a pinch of Terre de Sienne.

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All possibilities permitted with decals. I tried too reproduce tropical dial, but the print is not sharp enough for text and coronet.

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