Gold and Black letter transfers

[lugworm]

WHilst Im at it, can anyone suggest a source of the wonderful old letter transfers that used to be available in most chandlers and which were ubiquitus for names on classic dinghies (you soaked them in water and slid them into place - then varnished over). The ones that were gold with black edges. you can still get self adhesive ones but the sad thing is that the surrounding 'clear' plastic is alltogether too clearly visible and makes the result look very amateurish.

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[Evadne]

The modern signwriter produces acrylic letters in any font known to microsoft, in any colour that 3M produce and all on a backing so you can float them off with perfect spacing using soapy water, and leave them in place forever (at least 7 years in my case, can't recall exactly when they were done now). I'm not sure if you can get bicolour versions, but there's always the gold humbrol and masking tape....

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[BrendanS]

No clear plastic around any modern tranfers. Maybe that's why old versions are no longer available. Don't know anyway of getting gold edging to modern black transfers though, except by hand. There must be someone that does this, but probably in signwriter realm, rather than normal vinyl transfer artist?

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