Hi all, I'm getting married on the 16th September and I've arranged to join the Ceilidh barn dance band for a song to start the second half of their set which will be great. It's a surprise for the Mrs singing/playing a song that has sentimental meaning to us - Five Years Time by Noah and the Whale, though the wedding date is 11 years to the day from our first date so I've changed the words a bit too be 11 Years Time.
I have a soprano ukulele in dark wood colour (mahogany?) and a few people who know about this have suggested I put the date on the little uke as a momento of the day which does sound great but I've left it a bit late to sort now.
Anybody got any ideas about how I could do it? I'm guessing engraving or burning it on will be hard if I've never done it before.
We do have a Cricut machine which can cut sticky back vinyl which might be an option?
Thanks!
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printing your own waterslides can be done, but if using a home printer the decal may not stand out well against the mahogany. works well if you paint the Uke a light colour first and can be lacquered over for longevity. I don't think you have time for that
pyrography would be a skill to learn, and you don't have time for this if you haven't done it before.
If you know someone with good calligraphy skills , you could ask them to do it with a paint pen, then spray a light coat of lacquer over it
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Not sure I have the patience (or the printer) for decals though I'm sure that would look nice as well
https://www.stewmac.com/video-and-ideas/trade-secrets/spraying-a-peghead-logo-using-a-vinyl-frisket.html
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Thanks all - vinyl is looking likely. I like the spray paint idea but I've not had much luck with paint in the past sadly
Follow instructions to do the decal on the headstock, then mask off everything but headstock face and add 2 thin and 2 thicker coats of nitro.
But knowing past threads I suspect you may have an objection to any sensible advice:
"My index finger is too unusually long to apply consistent pressure on a spray can"
"I have to use water on the waterslide decal? I dont like water".
"My dog will bark at the postman and the neighbours get upset"
"I wont have space to store the spray can afterwards"
"I'm hear a weird hum whenever I face north holding sandpaper"
Re pyrography, I once wrote a message on a drum stick using a cheap pyrography kit from Amazon. It actually worked surprisingly well but I did practice quite a bit on wood dowel and some spare drum sticks. Also, the structure of the wood will have an impact on how well it works. If you wanted to go down that route I'd suggest getting some scrap mahogany to test on.
It should come off cleanly with a bit of determined peeling etc should I decide to get somebody to do it properly afterwards, but for now I'm happy with that.
Glad it worked out for you.
Whilst wear can be an issue, in real terms you may still be fine with that for years
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Thanks for the info fellas, if I do eventually get the waterslide done at some point in the future I'll post another picture for interest purposes