Thanks 200! I was waiting for someone to make a post about Derbys and labels just like yours. Were both the glossy and textured laminated vinyl too high for the recesses of the $3 chips?
I only tried the Glossy Vinyl Textured Laminate. They only spin slightly and only if it's two specific sides. I gather smooth laminate would be fine as they work fine on the pink 2s. Small sample size though, could just be lucky/unlucky.
The stiffer labels don't show the ridges of the hot stamps through the lables, but they're probably still standing on those edges. That means they sit higher and also aren't adhering to as much surface. If you try milling them, I'll bet you don't have any spinners. For test purposes, you can use a flat chisel to scrape off the high edges of the hotstamps and get a mostly-flat surface and see how much it helps.
You don't have to get them perfect, you just need to get all the ridges off so the labels are sticking to more flat surface.
Here's pic I found online of someone who milled the starbursts off of Paulson roulettes on a lathe - that's a little overkill! I think he's getting read to do new hot-stamps, but that's not recommended, as the chips are more likely to break the second time they're hot-stamped.
What great pics!!! Can Gear and I reference this thread if other folks ask him about this kind of thing?
The sample set Gear sells is just that, a sample of not only media, but size as well.
Just take an X-ACTO with a chisel blade 1/2 inch wide, scrape off the raised part of the H/S and apply a Vinyl label.(non Laminated)
I have done several K this way and the all looked fine when done.
This is very easy to do....
Just take an X-ACTO with a chisel blade 1/2 inch wide, scrape off the raised part of the H/S and apply a Vinyl label.(non Laminated)
I have done several K this way and the all looked fine when done.
This is very easy to do....
Just take an X-ACTO with a chisel blade 1/2 inch wide, scrape off the raised part of the H/S and apply a Vinyl label.(non Laminated)
I have done several K this way and the all looked fine when done.
This is very easy to do....
I've dug a few hotstamps out. The Lucky Derby side seems to turn out fine but the scrapes are visible on the denom side underneath the label. What should I do differently? It's not as noticeable as the unscraped at all really. But the grooves are still visible.
Which are still visible: the hot-stamp grooves, or the dug-out grooves? Done properly, there shouldn't be any digging out or dug-out grooves.... just scraping off the high parts of the melted material that was displaced during the hot-stamp process -- using the flat side of the x-acto blade.
Way too many cons Label both sides or your OCD side will kick in if you don't already have oneAfter some practice, the quality of the smoothing is better. What's your thoughts on labeling one side of the Lucky Derbys?
I'm thinking pros.
* half as many labels (cheaper)
* half as much x-acto scraping
* beautiful Derby Hotstamp stays in tact.
Cons.
* inconsistent looking
Way too many cons Label both sides or your OCD side will kick in if you don't already have one
I have always used 2mil non-laminated labels.
When scraping the H/S be very careful not to nic the inside of the recess.
There are lots and lots of Pic's of some I have done on CT.
Don't have any left or would post pic's.
to do it right i think milling is the only way to come out with a decent looking result, alot of threads at ct on this subject..i am always looking for an excuse to buy a dremel tool and thought that may work a bit better but have not tried that yet....just a thought
I think if you go hand-held, it's much too easy for the it to catch and jump off the recess, and you can mar your chips. You may have a very steady hand, but by the time you get to chip three hundred and forty five, second side....
Has anyone tried using a filler on the recesses of the hot stamp after scraping off the ridges? It seems that would allow for thinner vinyl labels, which might be necessary on older hot-stamped chips to avoid spinner.