Hi there! I’ve been recently interested in getting a nice looking grip tape for my somewhat ‘‘shaby’’ deck…
Is it possible to find custom designs in Eu?
Also if you are from USA, share your source I know there are some on ebay and amazon, too, but it seems a lof of them are pretty general (army camo, stripes, cubes etc)… or the price is quite high for me to order it (30+ usd incl shipping)…
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I got inspired from this guy, who customized his evolve:
No worries i edited one more link “Joker grip” in to that first reply, sorry if ya seen it before but im looking for custiom grip for my future build also, so thought id chip in with some suggestions.
Images would be nice! I actually saw the other day how one guy was applying a4 printed images onto the wood… though he said that it is better to use soft wood so not sure how good this might work on bamboo and other similar woods…
On a side note - he used just regular varnish… firstly by covering the wood with it…and then laying the image onto the wood… image down… then he heated the whole thing with hot air… and lastly applied one more coat of varnish…
What I didnt like about this method was that he had to scrape off the paper… to see the image at the end… though, it looked really really well… it’s just a bit of work involved…
That is the reason i use Printed glass.
Glass gets fully transperent when fully wet/laminated.
The glass is either available pre-printed(Example) or for printing on a laser-printer(A4 or on roll).
Another possibility is to use hand-drawings on Xuan.paper, which also gets almost 100% transparent when fully infused with resin.
Ok will take a look! I definately need to see some pictures… never heard of printing on fiber glass…
Do you have pics on how this looks on a board?
I assume the final result is something similar like evolve has - with glossy finish at the end?
Im not sure how this might suit the place where feet is located… but other than that it sounds like it could be great design for other areas on the board…Im using bindings… but I think there still needs to be some grip on the surface… so it seems with this solution I would still need some clear / transparent grip on top of the fiber glass
There is some clear crushed glass / corund on top(you can look up @longhairedboy builds for that) that grips even better than normal griptape. O will take some pictures of my boards the next time i get home.
Do you guys know how do they make these sort of designs/graphic:
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Im not entirely sure how they make the graphic / visual part… but the outer layer (coating) is still some sort of varnish on top of that… Would be cool to find out whenever it is possible to do something similar at home…
This way I wouldnt need to order the grip tape… could keep the grip tape for the feet spots… but design / make graphic for the tail and front…
I know there are some on ebay and amazon, too, but it seems a lof of them are pretty general (army camo, stripes, cubes etc)… or the price is quite high for me to order it (30+ usd incl shipping)…
