Well, FINALLY at long last i've found a plotter cuttable material that makes for re-usable stencils.
I have a few questions before I order the stuff and start offering it. First, it will mean the price of stencils go up about 20 bucks a set for a typical 2 color stencil due to the increased cost of the material. I'm thinking i'll offer both options at two price points depending on the individual's needs.
Now, the reusable version comes in two flavors.. with adhesive and without. The version without adhesive will require the user to spray something like photo mount on the stencil to stick it to the cabinet for painting. These wouldn't have the staying power of a typical vinyl stencil but on the flip side would more easily emulate the underspray effects found on many stencils. These could be washed, rolled up and re-used and are semi rigid. The removable adhesive works also, and is semi rigid but will require greater care in removing. Both versions are not infinitely re-usable but from my tests it seems that if you're careful you could get up to 5 cabs done with one set before they get too beat up to use anymore.
Honestly i'm looking at doing the non adhesive version and allowing people to apply their own spray adhesive. This reusable method also only works on cabinets that do not have floating parts, or very minimal numbers of floating parts so it simply can't be 'every' stencil.
So, all that said, anyone interested in me going forward in offering a reusable variation of many stencils? Would you want the adhesive or no? Games like robotron, defender, joust, sinistar, juno first, berzerk etc lend themselves well to the removable version.
Thanks for the feedback!
/brian
I have a few questions before I order the stuff and start offering it. First, it will mean the price of stencils go up about 20 bucks a set for a typical 2 color stencil due to the increased cost of the material. I'm thinking i'll offer both options at two price points depending on the individual's needs.
Now, the reusable version comes in two flavors.. with adhesive and without. The version without adhesive will require the user to spray something like photo mount on the stencil to stick it to the cabinet for painting. These wouldn't have the staying power of a typical vinyl stencil but on the flip side would more easily emulate the underspray effects found on many stencils. These could be washed, rolled up and re-used and are semi rigid. The removable adhesive works also, and is semi rigid but will require greater care in removing. Both versions are not infinitely re-usable but from my tests it seems that if you're careful you could get up to 5 cabs done with one set before they get too beat up to use anymore.
Honestly i'm looking at doing the non adhesive version and allowing people to apply their own spray adhesive. This reusable method also only works on cabinets that do not have floating parts, or very minimal numbers of floating parts so it simply can't be 'every' stencil.
So, all that said, anyone interested in me going forward in offering a reusable variation of many stencils? Would you want the adhesive or no? Games like robotron, defender, joust, sinistar, juno first, berzerk etc lend themselves well to the removable version.
Thanks for the feedback!
/brian
