Replica Parts Made in Milwaukee

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James,

I have not made a specific post about the Wards dial project. Basically I got the original art file from John Folsom who got if from someone else. It was in a file format that must be something that Photoshop generates, because I had to open it with Photoshop.

I used Photoshop to make seperations by color and then I cleaned up the seperations so the edges of all the images were nice and clean. Then I handed over the Photoshop files to the fellow who actually made the dialglass. It was reverse printed on the back side of an acrylic blank, using a special flatbed printer that utilizes UV cure ink. The printing is very hard and durable.

I am not sure why a person would print on both sides of a dial glass, but I think you may be better off going to silk screening for a job like that.

thanks for the link to GIMP. Looks like I will start using this.