idea for marking projects.

[dbhost]

http://tips.woodmagazine.com/measuring-marking/projects-wear-your-mark-with-iron-on-tee-shirt-labels/

Use iron on transfer sheets...

[leehljp]

Great idea! I will have to try it!

[tfischer]

I'm going to have to try that now - pretty sure I have some in my stash of odd printer papers.

Speaking of which... has anyone here tried using inkjet waterslide decal film? I was building an autoharp (see my thread in the finished projects forum I just posted if you're interested) and needed a way to put the chord symbols on the buttons. The plans recommended using overhead transparency film and supergluing them to the buttons... just didn't seem like that was going to look good at all. So I had some waterslide decal film on hand... gave it a try. I had some issues getting it to stick to the wood in some cases but it looks pretty good, and once I got it encased in another layer of poly over the top it should be very permanent.

Just wondered if anyone had used that on woodworking projects?

[LCHIEN]

don't you have to have very flat wood for this to work? Any raised grain and it will leave gaps (because the iron is so flat)

You can also do something similar with standard Laser/carbon toner printers.
Print a reverse image and use an iron to transfer the paper's image made with toner to the wood.
This is often done to transfer patterns for jigsaw/scrollsaw work... Not sure if the quality is high enough for this purpose, tho.

[Carpenter96]

I use this technique with reverse images done on laser printers. I use it to put childrens names, and train images on train whistles. I also use this for chip carving patterns it reduces the time for putting patterns on the wood.

Regards Bob

[atgcpaul]

I use this technique with reverse images done on laser printers. I use it to put childrens names, and train images on train whistles. I also use this for chip carving patterns it reduces the time for putting patterns on the wood.

Regards Bob

Bob, the technique Loring described or the original one posted by Dave?

As I near the finish line of a project, every extra step feels like I'm defusing a bomb. One false move and boom--ruined. I need something relatively fool proof and repeatable like this so I don't do something stupid like misspell my name in permanent marker--haven't done it yet, but only a matter of time.

[Stytooner]

I'm kind of embarrassed to say, but I have been sending out invoices for years with Roberstdale in my address instead of Robertsdale. A very astute customer caught that yesterday thankfully. An engineer, of course.
I apparently entered the wrong spelling into the dictionary at some point.

So, spell check is very useful, however if you mirror the text in a WP, does spell check still work?

You can also do actual labels that look very nice and will last for ages when properly sealed with finish.
You will need to test the paper, text, and bleeding with given logo's and methods, but that is about as fool proof as it gets once you do the testing.

[dbhost]

I would lay out the design in a graphics (Vector art like Corel Draw, Inkscape, Illustrator etc...) and just mirror the image to get the reverse. Easier than doing it in a word processor. And MUCH easier to get exactly the layout you want...

As this sort of thing is intended to be ironed on to cotton tee shirt fabric, I would suspect that wood grain, unless extreme like weathered barn wood, but just normal raised grains wouldn't be a problem...

[LCHIEN]

I'm kind of embarrassed to say, but I have been sending out invoices for years with Roberstdale in my address instead of Robertsdale. A very astute customer caught that yesterday thankfully. An engineer, of course.
I apparently entered the wrong spelling into the dictionary at some point.

So, spell check is very useful, however if you mirror the text in a WP, does spell check still work?

You can also do actual labels that look very nice and will last for ages when properly sealed with finish.
You will need to test the paper, text, and bleeding with given logo's and methods, but that is about as fool proof as it gets once you do the testing.

the text is the same. Word does not have a mirror option for fonts etc. Mirroring is done in the printing stage - its a printer option. Well past the spell check point.

[mnmphd]

Here is method to transfer inkjet images to wood I recently came across.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zq2O66QGCwg