Wood Pirate
New Member
I'm trying to make some extra bucks to keep a new business afloat during the first year. So I'm using all my past knowledge of everything I know and everything I can beg, steal, or borrow. As I have had poor luck on my first post here, off to a bad start so to speak. I'd like to get some input on this simple plan. A neighbor has offered me a chance to make beer crates for them but they have to be different, than the other 40 blokes that are banging on their door. So I have come up with an idea, it's a 4 pack of the larger type like 1 and 1/2 regular beer size. The have an Ocean type name so I've decided to use a buoy logo on the wide neck part of the wooden crate and plan to install an led light with a battery so if you go to campsite you can find your beer. There are 4 sides on this beer crate, (Amazing EH?) So the beer company get's the logo on the normal most used sides and I sell the 2 other sides to local take out, taxi companies, etc... (Going to call it a 4 Bouy) Anyway, as I do other projects with, recycled wood pallets and other scrap wood, I make things like coke crates that look old and other antique looking boxes, as well as furniture that nobody likes, I re-purpose and keep this crap out of the landfill. I've bought the plan from ebay to build a DIY DTG printer, I hope they work. Meanwhile I have been taking photo's etc... reverse and using glue to apply images to wood, looks good but pain in the @$$, I've used other methods also to transfer images like pealing stickers off a full page of label paper and using my inkjet printer to print a page and put direct to sanded wood with good results, but a pain in the, you know. Ya, there is also a question, if I get the beer crate contract can I use the DIY printer to make T-shirts and print on wood? The ink just has to be legible as I will be spraying it with water base clear coat after it dries. The only other concern is cost of the different inks if I need them or if I don't and things I can't foresee... I hope I've posted enough info for you to give me proper advice and would also like to mention, for those of you that have read my past posts, I did not use glue, I used brass, screws... Thanks for your input, be it positive or negative, but if it's negative at least tell me why, so I can hunt you down and thank you for helping me help myself. Big Hug for all!!!
