Thread: My first inlay transfer!

I seen someone do an inlay transfer and it actually made me buy a busted up razor on eBay just to give it a go hahaha... So lately I have been playing around with a lot of acrylics and have been loving them plus I figured the transparent look with the inlays will make it pop.


I outlined the scales removed the inlays with acetone and got to work... I actually used my wife's nail polish remover and it worked just fine lol. Once I got them off I set off in making the replicas with transparent blue acrylic, perfect match!



I dry fitted the inlay and seen it was going to fit fine so I moved on to polishing the inlay (in retrospect I could have easily done with after glueing but I thought I would minimize compromising the glue)



I actually buffed and polished with a dremel, I have some felt heads added my greaseless compound to it and went to work 😂😂😂 surprisingly it worked just fine and did the some with he polishing compounds.



Now for the tricky part, my heart was pumping because I didn't want the glue to set wrong and me look like a fool coming back with a piece that Picasso put together. So I actually put one of my 1/16 screws for my mock fittings into the scales, then applied glue to the backside as lightly as possible flipped her over, carefully put it down on the screw and gently placed it on the scales 😰😰😰



somehow with the grace of god I did this 3 more times and was successful! I hand sanded all the excess glue off and polished her up and brings me here hahaha...

enjoy! Tips and criticism is always welcome!

Thanks,
Fonz

Nice job.

This is just filler to make my post long enough.

Originally Posted by RezDog

Nice job.

This is just filler to make my post long enough.

Hahaha! Never the less thank you!

Nice, well done.

What did you make the inlays from?


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Originally Posted by Sxot

What did you make the inlays from?


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I didn't make them, I transferred them from the scales in the first picture.... I hope that's what u meant by ur question or I'm going to feel dumb lol

Originally Posted by Dafonz6987

I didn't make them, I transferred them from the scales in the first picture.... I hope that's what u meant by ur question or I'm going to feel dumb lol

No, you are right. I thought - for some reason - that you had made them. Re-reading your original post it is clear you were "transfering" them. Great work, and I do like the blue scales.

Beautiful work, and excellent write-up. You have the vision that an artist needs, demonstrated by your ability to see the blue translucent working ahead of time. Picasso, indeed!

Originally Posted by spoken36

Beautiful work, and excellent write-up. You have the vision that an artist needs, demonstrated by your ability to see the blue translucent working ahead of time. Picasso, indeed!

I don't know how I missed this comment, but thanks for the kind words sir! I appreciate that!

Originally Posted by Sxot

What did you make the inlays from?


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The inlays have been removed from the original scales.