Tim Neal
03-10-2015, 2:17 PM
I have a restoration project for a wood championship plaque that was made over 40 years ago. It's the kind of plaque where one would add the current champions name each year. It has dent, holes, and scratches that I have the skills to repair. Once repaired, it will get a new coat of black paint.
I'm looking for input on how I might go about recreating a gold and red logo that will be applied to a black painted wood plaque. The clients did not have the original artwork, so I'll be recreating it in CorelDraw...that part is not the problem. Since I don't have any experience with applying colored logos to plaques I thought I'd ask for input here. My thoughts were that I could use either inkjet water slide decal paper, or laser foil for creating the logo. Seems like either method could be used with the pre-finished wooden plaque. I would just need to apply a clear coat as the final protective finish. The tricky part might be applying the red lettering over the gold background. I included an image of the current logo below.
The original logo looked like to might have been silkscreened on, but I'm not sure. It cannot survive the repair process for the wood plaque, so it has to be replaced. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
What I have to work with is a complete woodworking shop, and a 50 watt 24" x 18" laser engraver. Thank you.
-Tim
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I'm looking for input on how I might go about recreating a gold and red logo that will be applied to a black painted wood plaque. The clients did not have the original artwork, so I'll be recreating it in CorelDraw...that part is not the problem. Since I don't have any experience with applying colored logos to plaques I thought I'd ask for input here. My thoughts were that I could use either inkjet water slide decal paper, or laser foil for creating the logo. Seems like either method could be used with the pre-finished wooden plaque. I would just need to apply a clear coat as the final protective finish. The tricky part might be applying the red lettering over the gold background. I included an image of the current logo below.
The original logo looked like to might have been silkscreened on, but I'm not sure. It cannot survive the repair process for the wood plaque, so it has to be replaced. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
What I have to work with is a complete woodworking shop, and a 50 watt 24" x 18" laser engraver. Thank you.
-Tim
308736