gold lexan???????

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fredbissnette
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gold lexan???????

Post: # 52906Unread post fredbissnette
Fri Apr 12, 2019 7:11 am

what colors does lexan/makrolon/polycarb come in
i have this client thats asking for gold, i cant even get black locally so feel like this is just not happening

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Re: gold lexan???????

Post: # 52911Unread post piaptk
Fri Apr 12, 2019 2:49 pm

It comes in black white and clear.

You could get gold silkscreen ink and do a one sided disc.
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Post: # 52915Unread post punkrock
Fri Apr 12, 2019 4:52 pm

Or you could choose whichever colour you wanted and do a picture disc.

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Re: gold lexan???????

Post: # 52917Unread post fredbissnette
Fri Apr 12, 2019 7:26 pm

i have seen records cut on mirrored acrylic i may try this
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Post: # 52918Unread post piaptk
Fri Apr 12, 2019 10:28 pm

For the acrylic you have to use cutting needles... like sapphires or diamonds. And you won’t get many cuts out of them. It will CHEW up your needles.
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Re: gold lexan???????

Post: # 52923Unread post fredbissnette
Sat Apr 13, 2019 3:12 pm

10-4 ill try to convince them to do a one sided picture disc with a gold metallic sticker


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Post: # 52926Unread post piaptk
Sat Apr 13, 2019 7:58 pm

Before you pitch that to them (or any weird thing that you haven't done en masse) be sure to protoype it... I'm not totally sure you will get the effect they want with a sticker on the back... but I'm interested to see what it looks like.
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Re: gold lexan???????

Post: # 52932Unread post fredbissnette
Sun Apr 14, 2019 2:23 pm

yeah im not sure the effect would be stellar being that the adhesive is a layer

im trying to convince them to just do black
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Re: gold lexan???????

Post: # 52934Unread post soeffingodly
Mon Apr 15, 2019 1:43 pm

fredbissnette wrote:im trying to convince them to just do black
Black is the new black
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Post: # 52935Unread post tragwag
Mon Apr 15, 2019 2:31 pm

I did a clear record with screenprinted gold metallic ink on the bside, came out great and exactly how they wanted.
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Re: gold lexan???????

Post: # 52937Unread post fredbissnette
Mon Apr 15, 2019 6:45 pm

boom!
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