Acrylic badge polished finish

[RogiBear]

Some cue makers use acrylic printed badges, Exquisite, Crispian, osborne for example. Does anyone know how they finish them off? I believe they buy them in at oversize depth and then cut them flush. Are they hand sanded and then hand polished or do they flame polish the raw surface? Thanks in advance

[culraven]

I had a badge fitted by Kevin Muncaster while i waited, seemed to over fill it with what looked like a glue gun, then polish it back.

[RogiBear]

I had a badge fitted by Kevin Muncaster while i waited, seemed to over fill it with what looked like a glue gun, then polish it back.

I think that would be similar to a casting resin. The same process as pin badge making. Did it has a softish texture?

[culraven]

Yeah, set instantly took him 2 minutes.

[RogiBear]

Yeah, set instantly took him 2 minutes.

That must have been on one of his rose badges? The process I'm looking for is definitely subtractive rather than additive though.

[culraven]

It was his normal red cross badge, thin plastic disc, filled in then polished flat.

[twenisix]

this is another method to make the nameplate. use a aryclic disc, cut it round to diameter with a lathe machine. how to hold the arcylic requires some technic, will teach if one have a lathe to turn down to size. most cuemaker make 16mm and some 16.5mm.
the words can made by computer print out. it requires some practice to fix them.
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[narl]

The ones Osborne uses are more like a tube and then cut flush to the butt, shows it in the gallery on his website.

[RogiBear]

this is another method to make the nameplate. use a aryclic disc, cut it round to diameter with a lathe machine. how to hold the arcylic requires some technic, will teach if one have a lathe to turn down to size. most cuemaker make 16mm and some 16.5mm.
the words can made by computer print out. it requires some practice to fix them.
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True, but this method has a severe limitation being that you would have to use a sans/serif font.

[RogiBear]

The ones Osborne uses are more like a tube and then cut flush to the butt, shows it in the gallery on his website.

Exactly, it is reverse printed acrylic which is oversize. I want to know which method is used to polish it back after the cut.

[twenisix]

the exquisite cue has a nice name plate. bigger font.

[DeanH]

True, but this method has a severe limitation being that you would have to use a sans/serif font.

why is it restricted to sans-serif fonts?
If the print comes from a "computer print out" then there should be no such restriction

[Stupree]

Acrylic badge polished finish

Acrylic can be polished using high grade wet and dry sand paper and a very fine rubbing compound, your best bet is to order some through ebay and have a play with it. It is a great material.

Acrylic badges tend to be either reverse engraved or hot foil stamped and some makers will an acrylic dowel cylinder to fill the space on top of their badge when making round butted cues

[RogiBear]

Acrylic can be polished using high grade wet and dry sand paper and a very fine rubbing compound, your best bet is to order some through ebay and have a play with it. It is a great material.

Acrylic badges tend to be either reverse engraved or hot foil stamped and some makers will an acrylic dowel cylinder to fill the space on top of their badge when making round butted cues

Thanks bud, that was the kind of method I was thinking about. I know of a method I use on old watches frequently, which brasso can be used to polish out fine scratches. But I wanted to double the sand paper method before hand as I have never used that before on acrylic. If the scratches were very deep I would just replace. Thanks

[RogiBear]

why is it restricted to sans-serif fonts?
If the print comes from a "computer print out" then there should be no such restriction

The text is engraved, therefore you are firstly limited to the tools capabilities. Also generally speaking with softwares available for similar milling CAD it is sans/serif that is used. eg blackletter script is omitted

just realised, i've miss understood what he was describing. my bad. i'd rather a more professional method though all the same