posted
There is an adhesive backed polyester made for just this purpose. Creative banner sells it under the name fabricbright. Also, Bainbridge Aquabatten, in MA sells a couple of similar products in a wider width. 800-224-3524
-------------------- Bill Modzel Mod-Zel screen Printing Traverse city, MI modzel@sbcglobal.net Posts: 1357 | From: Traverse City, MI | Registered: Nov 1998
| IP: Logged |
posted
Paul, Bainbridge is an actual boating supply outfit and that's what they sell. I've made a few dozen logo decals of this for a sailboard club and they have been happy. I didn't install them either.
I have also used it on those pop up type tents successfully.
The stuff is a pain to transfer as the adhesive is very strong. I acutually use intermediate vinyl as a premask for the stuff. Normal premask won't lift it off the backer.
I have had issues with the product on a nylon flag however. I suspect it was because flag material is less dimensionally stable than sail cloth.
-------------------- Bill Modzel Mod-Zel screen Printing Traverse city, MI modzel@sbcglobal.net Posts: 1357 | From: Traverse City, MI | Registered: Nov 1998
| IP: Logged |
posted
Aslan make a pant mask, called "Sail Mask" It's waaay more agressive in tack than ordinary vinyl, and it sticks well to fabrics & coarse canvases etc.
YOu can plot what you need in that, and then airbrush vinyl screen ink on, then weed the mask off.
Go easy, as you don't want the logo's paint to be heavier than the sail, and to act like a garbage-can lid up there on the cloth! Also test for compatibility of the lacquer thinners with the fabric- you don't want to disintergrate it.
Or try dye-sublimation.
-------------------- "Stewey" on chat
"...there are no limits when you aim for perfection..." Jonathan Livingston Seagull Posts: 7014 | From: Highgrove via Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia | Registered: Dec 2002
| IP: Logged |
posted
I've used Bainbridge sailcloth, bought directly from them, and also bought it (converted to 15" perf. for sprocket plotters)from Clarke Systems (AKA Spandex)
I've used it on sailboard sails, but they are rigid materials & less comparable to your needs Paul, but I've also sold dozens of sailcloth lettering and graphics for kite boarding kites, which are a nylon material that may be more similar to your clients needs. They have lasted fairly well, under challenging conditions of being dragged over the beach & stuffed in a bag after each use. They don't last forever though, and NazDar 2 part DA series nylon inks were the better solution
posted
I would recommend insignia cloth (FabricBrite is one brand name) as mentioned above. Thank you Bill for mentioning using intermediate vinyl as transfer tape for this stuff. I've tried almost everything else and transferring a large graphics with a spiders web of masking tape is hardly the elegant solution (but it sometimes works as a last resort)
I would contact a sail maker. He could stitch a simple graphic on made out of sail material. Just like the O'day circle that is stitched on my sail boat's sail.
Joe
-------------------- Joe Abner Talisman Signs Middleboro, MA
"We are limited only by our perception of our abilities." Posts: 445 | From: Middleboro, Ma USA | Registered: Dec 2000
| IP: Logged |
posted
If you going to use ink, I totally agree with Doug. NazDar's DA series is pretty much indestructible. It will outlast the sail. I've has red nylon banners fray and fall apart and the print looked like it was done yesterday.
It also waterproofs the knees in snowmobile suites for ice fishing for you northerners.
-------------------- Bill Modzel Mod-Zel screen Printing Traverse city, MI modzel@sbcglobal.net Posts: 1357 | From: Traverse City, MI | Registered: Nov 1998
| IP: Logged |
Printer-friendly view of this topic