Accessory decals

lonestar308 · Jan 17, 2019

I'm in the middle of a complete refurb of my 1945 9A and found these items in the box of accessories...they all have a South Bend decal that I would like to find replacements for if possible. Also, I have no idea what the flat edge pieces are for...could someone help me out?

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barryw · Jan 17, 2019

They look like woodworking tool rests, I think I saw that option somewhere, maybe in how to run a lathe?

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USNmechanic · Jan 17, 2019

Yes, definitely for wood turning. It looks like they mount directly to the cross slide in place of the compound using the mount attached to the smaller rest in the picture. Pretty clever, I may make my own now after seeing it.

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adam9274 · Jan 17, 2019

+1 on wood turning. I had something very similar with my first SB 9... Which I regretfully sold... The device at the top looks like a boring bar?

Metal-Masher · Jan 17, 2019

I like the decals. I wonder if they are limited to woodworking tools?

I wish someone in the business could reproduce these water-slide type decals.

iwananew10K · Jan 17, 2019

They stuck the decals on about every accessory....maybe even all....was on my steady,follow,carriage stops, etc.

lonestar308 · Jan 17, 2019

Ah...woodworking tools...that makes sense. The boring bar seemed a bit large for metalworking....I'm holding off on cleaning them up until I figure out if I can find repro decals...

iwananew10K · Jan 17, 2019

The bar holder is for metal or wood too I guess.

The bar is one of those weird hollow ones with the clamp running though it.

Tci_ · Feb 10, 2020

Did you ever have any luck with these? Just curious. I do graphics and vinyl. I am not probably interested in printing something like this but I enjoy recreating old logo’s on the graphics side. I’ll look and see if I can find any cleaner image of the logo and recreate something you can take to a print shop and get something made from. I’ll post it up when I get it done. Hopefully the forum allows the file to upload. We’ll find out.

Tci_ · Feb 11, 2020

Well I tried to upload but the file is just too big and it won't take an .ai file anyway which is what your print shop would want. Even the PDF file was too large by a lot. Attached is a screen shot of what I came out with. If this is something you can use let me know and I'll email it to you or something. I had to guess at the lower part of that lettering and the actual lathe is sort of a hybrid from the one posted on the forum that is made from tin or brass. The colors in the screen shot are not awesome, especially the background. I originally had gold gradient and removed it hoping it would reduce the file size. It did but not enough to get anywhere near the limit. The true file is editable and scalable for size. I would suggest printing the red and black on gold chrome vinyl.

Paul

USNmechanic · Feb 11, 2020

Paul,

I’m not sure if you’re a member, but there’s a decals page on the Vintage Machinery wiki website for items like this. If you’re willing to share it with everyone/anyone, that would be a great place to put it. I used one of the Boice Crane decals from there for a bandsaw project last year.

OWWM decals - VintageMachinery.org Knowledge Base (Wiki)

-Keith

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Ries · Feb 11, 2020

the ceramics hobby world uses water slide decals. and most potters just make their own. you can buy the paper for your printer.
It wouldnt be as classy as the old way, where you silkscreen on the paper, but, if you want, you can have those made, by a silkscreen shop, or set up to do it yourself, with oil based inks.
I had a friend who used to make his own decals- he had a darkroom to make his own photosensitive screens, and he used signmakers silkscreen ink.
its not very high tech.
OneStepPapers.com

Water Slide Decal Printing Procedure

Tci_ · Feb 11, 2020

Ries said:
the ceramics hobby world uses water slide decals. and most potters just make their own. you can buy the paper for your printer.
It wouldnt be as classy as the old way, where you silkscreen on the paper, but, if you want, you can have those made, by a silkscreen shop, or set up to do it yourself, with oil based inks.
I had a friend who used to make his own decals- he had a darkroom to make his own photosensitive screens, and he used signmakers silkscreen ink.
its not very high tech.
OneStepPapers.com

Water Slide Decal Printing Procedure

I'm no printing history buff and actually have no idea how the originals were made but I'm pretty sure they were nothing high tech by todays standard. That's good info

Tci_ · Feb 11, 2020

USNmechanic said:
Paul,

I’m not sure if you’re a member, but there’s a decals page on the Vintage Machinery wiki website for items like this. If you’re willing to share it with everyone/anyone, that would be a great place to put it. I used one of the Boice Crane decals from there for a bandsaw project last year.

OWWM decals - VintageMachinery.org Knowledge Base (Wiki)

-Keith

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I went over there and signed up and loaded it up in a couple formats. Pretty sure that I didn’t get the thumb view loaded the way it’s supposed to but I am running on safari on my Mac and maybe thats the deal. Not my strong suit but the design in there in the directory if someone is looking for it. Cool site over there BTW.

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USNmechanic · Feb 16, 2020

Tci_ said:
signed up and loaded it up in a couple formats.

Awesome, thanks!

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