Rancid

I know some of you have some experience with decals and screenprinting so I was wondering if any of you know of a way to get a decal off a t-shirt? Its not a big one, maybe 3-4 inches long and two inches tall. I've got three days to get it off a shirt sleeve. Any good ideas?

soyboy

outside of scissors, and i say this with lots of experience trying to get ink out of shirts, no

killsurfcity

circumstances?

SamHouston

screen over it

iamarapgod

Lol

But this is something that is already printed onto the fabric and you want it off? I'm sorry I don't think it's possible, short of a patch or overprint.

subsistbmx@hotm

Some really old silk-screens usually get very flaky and it's pretty easy to get that stuff off..but if it's a new shirt..I'd say get a shirt without a decal or if you send me $5 I'll send you one of my old shirts..

fibergoldfish

if you know anyone who has access to pro silk screening equipment there are guns of high pressure liquid that will shoot out printed ink.....if you dont have access to one of those your kinda effed

delicious

I've got to know the story behind this.

onetwentyeight 

once the image has been heat set you're pretty much SOL.

trons

sew a new sleeve on it

seagull_bags

+1...having done alot of screen printing, this may be your only bet.

TRaffic Jammer

has the ink been cured? This sounds like a one off....gone badly.

Rancid

haha. Okay so the story behind it is that I've got my Formal for my fraternity this week. On the back of everyone's t-shirt is their name. My date was the girl I had been seeing for the last 4 months until we had a falling out last week. It was actually over something she could have talked to me about sooner (like a week earlier even) But instead she seem to have the subconcious ability to know that she should back out of the trip the day after the shirts went to press. So now my date, who is named Rayanne gets to wear a shirt bearing the name of Jade.

I tihnk I might just cut a perfect rectangle in a piece of cardboard and fabric paint it all just solid green (the color of the text). Any other good ideas?

TRaffic Jammer

sleeveless for her *edit* damn it's on the back....yea just ink over it man

shot

pics? (Of each.)

TRaffic Jammer

Jade.... with a big red pen scratch through it... later for you Jade.

fibergoldfish

you could try going back to the printer and pleading your case....if there good guys they might shoot it out for you possibly even block print your new dates name

BRANDUNE

Seriously, this is the only way you can remove something that has set, and even then the ink will bleed into the fabric and the gun has a tendencey to **** up the fibres of the shirt

geist

Just add a D: "JADED".

doofo

yeah but what are you gonna do about the tattoo
?

goldenskeletons

this is easier to fix if you're doing the printing yourself, but you can always make a block print over the first name (in whatever color you want, but you'll have better luck with the same shade or darker), and then stencil in your new date's name in another color over the block print (let it dry first).

oh, and good job moving on to the next one so fast. it sounds pretty sleazy, but i know that's a quality i look for in all of my dates.

Rancid

Haha. As soon as I got the new date I emailed Cole from 1lesscar.com and he told me it was pretty much impossible to get rid of it, but then lightened my mood with stories from his days as a tattoo artist. That said- It sounds like a pretty bad idea to ever get a portrait of a girlfriend tattooed across my chest.

Rancid

Since any thread is worthless without pics:
The old-
The new-

thebristolkid

Rayanne? Jade? If you ask me, these people sound like "women of the night." If that's the case, I think Rayanne will let you call her "Jade" for $50 extra.

thebristolkid

Oh god...and the feeding frenzy begins in 5...4...3...