[sdiy] silkscreening and other finishings

[harry]

The 40's / 50's would be GRAVOPLY lables... they are a black plastic
with a white plastic overcoat.... us use a pantograph style engraver to
cut through the white and expose the black. They are virtually
indestructable.

The label stock can even be had in large sheets, to do a whole front
panel.
Finsihed lables are glued or riveted to the panel.  Still used in
industry today.
Hmmm...  maybe an old engraver on e-bay ???

H^) harry

tpaddock at seanet.com wrote:

> Harry,
> But when dymo labels fell off you could still
> read the letters in the fossilized goo. :)
> I was kind of wondering what was pre-dymo?
> Maybe I'm thinking 40s-50s instead of 50s-60s.
> Punch letters on copper strips and "age" in
> salt water? H2O2? Cola?
>
> I bet dymo dates back farther than I think.
> Maybe I'll hit it with a heat gun to fade
> it out a bit. (If I can find some) Nothing
> says high-class like woodgrain dymo.
>
> Thanks,
> Toby Paddock
> PS- I just checked ebay and sure
> enough, there's lots of *vintage* Dymo.
>
> Harry wrote:
> > If you want an authentic 60's look use labelmaker
> > plastic tape once made by Dymo. Don't know if it
> > still exists. It embossed litters into a thick
> > plastic self adhesive tape.  It looked awful but
> > I saw a LOT of homebuilt projects using it...
> >
> > Used it myself... eventually the adhesive dries
> > out and the labels fall off... leaving a sticky
> > residue behind.
> >
> > H^) harry
> >