Lettering for boat name

Advice
#1

I am getting a new kayak this year and need to put a name on it. My past boats had letters made from two sheets of adhesive backed vinyl. I put white over red. After I cut out the letters I trimmed about a 1/8" of the white off the edge, leaving a white letter with red outline. Worked fine and stuck to the poly boat real well. Now I can’t seem to find this stuff. There are letters available but I prefer to use my own design. Anybody know of a source for adhesive backed vinyl sheet in red and in white? eh?

#2

Art supply houses
like pearl art or??? Sure they are on the net.

#3

Try,

– Last Updated: Dec-12-04 9:51 AM EST –

military-graphics.com ,,, jim pierce there has tons of stuff and they make custom stuff also.

HEX

#4

Sign Shop
Try a sign shop. They use this stuff to cut out lettering on computer controlled machines that look like the old traction feed dot matrix printers. The one I deal with probably has 20+ different colors on rolls about 24" wide. I’m sure you could find a shop that would sell you a few inches of the raw material.

#5

West Marine
West Marine not only has letters for such but provides the service of printing custom ‘decals’ for boats. You have your choice of fonts, size, angle and/or arch, etc…

#6

Thanks, hexsledge
I sent an E-mail to Jim Pierce asking for this item. I need sheet because, as I stated, I do my own design with script/cursive style lettering. I like to march to a different drummer from time to time. I am also stubborn when I get on a track like this. (grumpy old man?)

#7

Ditto Sign Shop
I kept mine simple and just asked for the material…sold it to me cheap and I cut them out.





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Andy

#8

Andy, looks good
My first run at this was with a sailboat in 1986. I have seen this boat recently and the lettering is still intact except for some fading of the red. That one was Beachcomber. My next is going to be Beachcomber III.

#9

Big thanks to
all of you who responded. I found some sheet vinyl today. A sign shop, “Fastsigns” had the right stuff. Thanks again gang.