Lasering Matte Board with Diploma Script Font
Guys,
Another new project from a customer. They have some 16" x 20" picture frames with black felt matte board that is .005" thick. The places for the picture and tassle are already cut out and they would like to have the Universities name cut out or embossed some how with gold (color). As I don't have embossing equipment, I thought about cutting the letters out with the laser and backing it up with some Rowmark Gold MetalGraph acrylic. Since the Diploma font has a ton of iddy biddy lines and pieces - I have to glue the matte board to the acrylic. I thought about using some rubber cement as it's bondable; but not so much that I couldn't pull the parts of the letters off that need to - to show the gold color of the acrylic. This may be a bit of overkill; but I tried to raster the felt off down to the paper (white backing) and then use some gold foil; but again with this font - sticking was an issue. I know Dan has mentioned in the past of using glue on to substrate, then attaching the foil to make it bond better. I'll try that a bit later as the customer needed it yesterday of course and I'm figuring out the best (easiest and lest costly for me) approach in the future should I become a good customer (they run a frame shop).
I did do a quick preview of previous posts but nothing looked like what I'm trying to accomplish. If I missed it, please forgive my haste.
Thanks