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I've been a busy little screen printer - thanks to the help here and on the internet.
Well, aside from a few.... mishaps... this whole process is very fascinating. I've come to learn that while screen printing does save time in reproducing shirts, you still need to take your time in doing so. We've ruined three of the god-awful green shirts for my mom's reunion, fortunately this was a test run, and we'll likely be ordering more in the future.
Its a fairly straight forward boring-ish t-shirt, but the people she has shown it to are blown away. Heck, she's blown away at the quality and consistency of the whole process. We figured out that we can fit 8-10 shirts on the pool table, 5-6 on the kitchen table and a few more on her sewing desk and we've been able to knock out wuite a few of them. They saying comes from her year book of the year she graduated. Originally we were going to do a three-color design to replicate the year book, however, time constraints and considering that this is our first actual silk screening attemp, we decided to just hold off on the three color + black and just stayed with black and simplified the design.
While still not "ideal", it does work much better than an expired credit card. This is the scraper used in fiberglassing. I've used it before, however, for... well... fiberglassing. I was making a fish-tank computer monitor which didnt work out, but I remembered this, and while at home depot attempting to find something, anything, that would work, I saw this and we got it.
My brother's friends and my friend's have a hangup on the chainsaw (Gauntlet) in Quake III, and whenever we have a LAN Party we always have chainsaw matches where only the chainsaw is permitted. I figured that since I had an extra screen (ok, I made an extra screen just for this purpose) and since its unique and my own design, that I'd give it a go.
Please pardon the obscenely tight t-shirt. I stole one of my brother's t-shirts for the test, and he's a twig. I'm happy with how it came out, and likely will be making more for our friends in the near future.
This is sort of addicting. I just want to continually make screens; just to have on hand. Unfortunately tomorrow I pack my butt back up and move back to Lansing for school. Fortunately though, I'll be in my own house, with a basement perfect for doing projects like this. It'll be a nice side job/hobby along with selling corals and working at DECS at MSU.
Well, aside from a few.... mishaps... this whole process is very fascinating. I've come to learn that while screen printing does save time in reproducing shirts, you still need to take your time in doing so. We've ruined three of the god-awful green shirts for my mom's reunion, fortunately this was a test run, and we'll likely be ordering more in the future.
Its a fairly straight forward boring-ish t-shirt, but the people she has shown it to are blown away. Heck, she's blown away at the quality and consistency of the whole process. We figured out that we can fit 8-10 shirts on the pool table, 5-6 on the kitchen table and a few more on her sewing desk and we've been able to knock out wuite a few of them. They saying comes from her year book of the year she graduated. Originally we were going to do a three-color design to replicate the year book, however, time constraints and considering that this is our first actual silk screening attemp, we decided to just hold off on the three color + black and just stayed with black and simplified the design.
While still not "ideal", it does work much better than an expired credit card. This is the scraper used in fiberglassing. I've used it before, however, for... well... fiberglassing. I was making a fish-tank computer monitor which didnt work out, but I remembered this, and while at home depot attempting to find something, anything, that would work, I saw this and we got it.
My brother's friends and my friend's have a hangup on the chainsaw (Gauntlet) in Quake III, and whenever we have a LAN Party we always have chainsaw matches where only the chainsaw is permitted. I figured that since I had an extra screen (ok, I made an extra screen just for this purpose) and since its unique and my own design, that I'd give it a go.
Please pardon the obscenely tight t-shirt. I stole one of my brother's t-shirts for the test, and he's a twig. I'm happy with how it came out, and likely will be making more for our friends in the near future.
This is sort of addicting. I just want to continually make screens; just to have on hand. Unfortunately tomorrow I pack my butt back up and move back to Lansing for school. Fortunately though, I'll be in my own house, with a basement perfect for doing projects like this. It'll be a nice side job/hobby along with selling corals and working at DECS at MSU.