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Have any of you guys ever tried screen printing and baking gas globes? Any idea of temp required to baked on the ink? Can you re-bake older globes again? Do they break when fired?
Here in England globes are reproduced but they are let down by having only water slide decals on them,,first signs of damp they crack and fall off!
Any ideas would be most apreciated.
GPG

Gary,

We have three different individuals here on the site that reproduce globes that are essentially fired on. To do them individually would probably be expensive and impractical, especially when basic reproduction globes only cost 70 bucks or less with the holder. The nicer reproduction globes sell for around $250.00 plus the holder, so even that is reasonable compared to what it would cost to do a marginal one off.

Trying to re-bake an older globe would also seem impractical and only detract from the value of an original piece. If they were decals to begin with it would seem more practical to replace them with decals as original.

I'm no globe expert so it would probably be good to get some other opinions.

Gary, the globes that were made in Sweden sometimes were etched where the logos were painted. My original Esso oval globe is made like that. After the etching (don't know how that was done) the logos were painted and "fired" on with a small kerosene "heat gun". The older paints also contained lead which helped to make the paint stick and last. I have seen this method in an exhibition in the old glaziery that actually made the globes.

I bought a new British "Shellmex" globe last year and as you say, the text is a brittle water decal that almost falls off by itself. If I keep this globe, I will mask the letters and carefully glassbead the area, check the mask and then paint.
regards,
Claes