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So has anyone here tried doming resins on lettering? Karen Souza at Cranberry Signcraft does doming, but I'm not sure which process she uses.
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I put doming resin on a red vinyl that matched the color of my truck doors about 15 years ago. It gave my lettering an embossed look as if I took the door skin off and had it die punched. Very Cool.
Did some flames too. Too expensive for anyone wanting to match what I had done, so I tossed all the stuff.
The stuff I used came out of a 2 part syringe. Is that stuff still around?
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I also use RDS/Acuflow. Cut the word "Sassy" in script out of satin aluminum vinyl, domed it, put it on a silver Ford. Looked like a perfect embossed job. The only down side is is a little pricey but very affordable if you limit the size, and it has a shelf life that isn't real long, maybe a year.
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What it is, is that I have a customer who wants his boat ID numbers to match the domed logos on his boat. And, he wants them badly. So you know what that means.
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I also get my supplies from RDS Acuflow. They have a startup set of tools and materials that you'd be able to do your numbers with but if it's not something you are interested in doing yourself then I'd get someone to do it. It is not a common request and, as Dave said, the material has a very limited shelf life. Also, the smaller the item is the better dome you will get, large items usually come out sort of raised flat, so it's best application is for small items.
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Oh, better for smaller letters. THanks for all of the info. You guys is the best!!!!!
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A tip if you do the doming: put a 1/8" round on every corner of the numbers. Otherwise, the doming material will want to flow outside of the material when you flow it on.
I worked in the design department of a couple companies that did a LOT of doming. Tens of thousands of them. One company did so much that they bought an automated doming machine to pour the material. It worked similar to a CNC router.
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