Racket Stencil Art

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  1. Danstevens

    Danstevens Regular Member

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    That's really good. They both are.
     
  2. SGDream

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    Post your racket stencil!

    Here is mine stencil:
     

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  3. Deathsticks

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    Nanoscience Stencil

    A Yonex nanoscience stencil i made for a friend :)
    I drew it in photoshop then printed then cut, but my cutting is not that good :p
    The 4 bars in the hexagon are to hold the void inside the hexagon, then after the stencil is don i could just fill in the void holders
    PM me if you want the stencil picture
    [​IMG]
    [​IMG]As you can see this one is for Nanospeed 7000 head
     
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    @@ cant see~! Wher u put ur stencil?
     
  5. Deathsticks

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    We need more complicated stencils
    i'd like to see someone actually replicate black knight's image
    also people post your actual stencil and your racket
     
  6. smash_master

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    black knights image like this? these are my racquets by the way. (not sure how to upload an image i already posted in another thread so im just attaching via the url)

    [​IMG]
     
  7. Deathsticks

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    o_O omg thats nice
    did you stencil with custom ones or from black knight?
     
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    with the stencil that black knight sent me with all my stuff.
     
  9. weinsteinium

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    My attempt at a Nanoscience stencil (I made it larger than Deathsticks but the little hexagons still look like blobs).
    Click on the thumbnail to see a larger image. Click on the larger image to see a huge image.
    [​IMG]

    And my attempt at a radiation symbol
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    Both together:
    [​IMG]
     
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    Very nice

    Im working on new designs to! more to come...
     
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    Just a warning guys.. don't use Sharpies to color the strings! The ink in the Sharpie dissolves/weakens your strings... I found out after I drew on three rackets and they all broke within weeks of each other.

    This is my school's logo that I put on the rackets:
    [​IMG]
     
  12. weinsteinium

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    Nice one, Thejym. The two colors makes it show up really well.

    Based on my experience trying a couple of racquet stencils, my friend did a skull that I'm very impressed with. We learned a couple of things from my attempts:

    1) Fine lines are very tricky. If the thin line doesn't run along a string, it will be hard to see (like my radiation symbol where the space between the central circle and the bottom blob didn't catch any cross strings. I could have fixed that by repositioning my stencil).

    2) Reverse space seems to show up better, meaning that white space surrounded by dark ink seems to show up well. His strings are white and he used black stencil ink.

    Here is my friends racquet (sorry for the low quality cell phone pictures).
    Click on any of the images to see a larger version of the image.
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    As for the stencil, he drew have the picture and then folded it in half to make sure that both sides were the same. He was very careful to make sure that the spacing of the teeth lined up with the vertical strings of his racquet
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    [​IMG]
     
  13. Deathsticks

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    haha i see you guys sketched it first i don't think its a good idea to invert the stenciling
    wasting ink :p

    I got 3 stencils done
    Old yonex sign, chinese sign for love, and ying yang sign :D
    i didn't try em yet but i'll post pics soon

    P.S. the chinese sign for love pretty crapy :( think ima remake it
    ooo and i think ima make Li Ning's symbol[​IMG]
    wikipedia says its A L and a N combined
     
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    Heh, stencil ink is really cheap. It's like US$4 a bottle. And each bottle can probably do 50 inkings.

    Cool, post them when you're done with them. I ran out of racquets but I have some more ideas.
     
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    Realy? only 4$ i only know store that sells it for 5 o.o
    i'll post them once i get mah camera back
     
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    I bought mine online at tennisplaza.com. $4, free shipping in the US.
     
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    How's this one on my daughter's racquet ....
     

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    if i ever gonna do that for my wife, she will love me to core! :D

    and i can ask for a NS9900. :D
     
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    alternate stencil ink

    Hi,

    are there other inks that i can use rather than to buy stencil ink?

    like perm marker, whiteboard marker or summit like that


    TY

    ice_dragon
     
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    Use only stencil ink. Other markers etc will eat away the string.
     

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