Printing on Bobbins

[kevinT]

I've noticed a couple of pickup makers (namely Seymour Duncan and recently Rockfield Pickups) print their names on their bobbins.

Has anyone tried to do this themselves or looked into the process to have it done professionally? Would it be done using a silk screening method?

My first thoughts would be to create a stencil and tape it to the bobbin and use spray paint. I think it would be really time consuming though.

A friend of mine who owns InTune Guitar Picks, custom prints picks using a printing press specifically tooled for that purpose. I'm just wondering whether the same concept would be used.

any thoughts?

[Possum]

foil stamping

its probably a hot foil stamping method the big guys use, they did this at EMG when I was around there. Its about the only that would be permanent, silk screen would eventually rub off, foil stamping is a hot method and actually embosses into the plastic....mabye someone else has some ideas....

[Joe Gwinn]

Has anyone tried to do this themselves or looked into the process to have it done professionally? Would it be done using a silk screening method?

My first thoughts would be to create a stencil and tape it to the bobbin and use spray paint. I think it would be really time consuming though.

A friend of mine who owns InTune Guitar Picks, custom prints picks using a printing press specifically tooled for that purpose. I'm just wondering whether the same concept would be used.

any thoughts?

There are paints made for plastic, which effectively weld to plastics such as ABS, polycarbonate, et al (anything that dissolves in the paint solvent). It should be possible to silkscreen such paint.

I bet that there are silkscreen inks intended for use on plastics as well.

These paints (and inks?) are basically plastic and dye dissolved in a solvent that dissolves both the plastic of the paint and of the surface to be painted, so the solvent welds the two together.

Krylon makes a spray paint intended for plastics. One can also get Krylon paints intended for brushing.

[David Schwab]

EMG's are definitely foil stamp, as they are shiny, but Duncan's look like silk screen to me.

[Possum]

foils...

stamping foils come in opaque solid covers also, EMG also stamps them in white, grey, and metallic gold on their various models. Foil stamping is real common in the printing industry so very familiar with that end of it....

[David Schwab]

stamping foils come in opaque solid covers also, EMG also stamps them in white, grey, and metallic gold on their various models. Foil stamping is real common in the printing industry so very familiar with that end of it....

Well that makes sense. I've actually been in the printing industry since 1980 (started out as a plate maker, and then a stripper), and I currently work for a commercial printer, but the most I've done with foil, is embossing.

[Mystic]

Well that makes sense. I've actually been in the printing industry since 1980 (started out as a plate maker, and then a stripper), and I currently work for a commercial printer, but the most I've done with foil, is embossing.

I work in the printing industry too (small world) .

Check out this company. I might give this a try.
http://www.pulsar.gs/DecalPRO/Vertic.../Overview.html