Anyone with a vinyl plotter that wants to make a batch of spray stencils?

[Fabrik8]

Does anyone around the Charlotte area have a vinyl plotter and would want to make some inexpensive spray paint stencils?

If they're one-time use vinyl, I would need 20-25 of them, and if they're reusable from stencil film I would need 2 or 3 to reuse them 10 times. Letters would be probably 2 inches tall, with 4 letters. The stencils can be small as I'll mask off everything around it. Simple bold block font, no letter islands if they're an adhesive stencil. They're just labels for our own inventory use, not logos or anything like that.

Whatever film/vinyl is used would need to withstand regular solvent-based spray cans.


I'm going to be spraying the inside of a straight cylinder, so it's a simple curved surface with no compound curvature, so the stencil stiffness doesn't matter.

I would cut them by hand but I don't want to mess with worrying about edge lift during spraying, etc.


I'm very curious about how much something like this would cost.....

 

[Ron]

Like anything of the sort, most of your cost here is in the setup and artwork time.
Im not sure if we have stencil film (wife's business) but from high quality single stick vinyl....Maybe $20 for the 25 qty...and then that again for setup and artwork

Can do letters upto 70" tall now....

 

[Fabrik8]

Like anything of the sort, most of your cost here is in the setup and artwork time.
Im not sure if we have stencil film (wife's business) but from high quality single stick vinyl....Maybe $20 for the 25 qty...and then that again for setup and artwork

Can do letters upto 70" tall now....

$20 total for 25, or $20 each?

One of those seems super cheap, and the other seems too expensive.

 

[Ron]

$20 for 25...
$20 each if you will pay

 

[Fabrik8]

I'm definitely interested if you want to talk to the business owner about it. Also find out if the vinyl can stand up to solvents in spray paint if you don't already know the answer. I'm about to go on vacation for the rest of the year (I won't be at work to use these) so I can easily wait until after New Year's if a different type of material needs to be ordered, etc.

I don't care about color at all, so whatever you have kicking around for color is fine. I'll talk to my people tomorrow and make sure there isn't a problem with spending a tiny amount of money on this.