Logo over cast-resin pens (circuit board)

[jjudge]

There was a 2009 thread on engraving circuit board pens.

End summary seemed to be:

• Yes, you can laser engrave the cast resin pens -- they frost less than acrylic, so you really have to fill them
• No, you probably don't want to do that -- because it could look odd to have a logo or text "floating" over the thing
• Consider water slide decals

So, if that is the consensus ... whats the opinions on that?

E.g.,
Turn down to normal diameter, do decal, build up a polyurethane finish?
Turn down lower than normal (be careful) and recast with your own resin?
etc.

-- joe

 

[hewunch]

Turn down lower than normal (I would use the Sierra Vista or Wall St. III or equivalent, so I know I had room to spare). by the thickness of the decal plus a few thousandths and build back up with CA. Buff out to shine.

 

[GoodTurns]

Turn down lower than normal (I would use the Sierra Vista or Wall St. III or equivalent, so I know I had room to spare). by the thickness of the decal plus a few thousandths and build back up with CA. Buff out to shine.

+1...this is the one time that a "floater" looks good!