Making Racquet Stencils

[henrytennisadelaide]

How can this be done?

 

[hypervox]

I made some with a vinyl cutter, but since then stopped using stencils

 

[golden chicken]

I would cut them out of a cereal box.

 

[esgee48]

For repeated use, the stencil needs to be made out of a plastic sheet at least 0.5mm thick. It needs to be stiff enough to lay flat. You draw your design on the plastic sheet, cut it out and you are good. I personally do not do them because the stenciling process is very messy.

 

[goldenhawktennis]

Scrap cardboard is your friend! You can just print any design you like and trace it onto the cardboard, cut it out, and boom...good to go.

 

[1HBHfanatic]

How can this be done?

-run a search here
-years ago this was a big topic!,
-lots of great suggestions at the time

 

[dak95_00]

Is there a design you’re looking for? I had some and never use them these days. Many can be freehand drawn. If it’s more than that, it’s probably just too much ink on a racquet.

Also, I’ve never had luck with ink sticking to poly strings. I swear the pros must be using real paint.

 

[struggle]

Whoever is sponsoring you should be happy to provide you with one.

 

[LOBALOT]

I have made them for my son's high school team but as noted above they are very messy. I simply took a piece of cardboard or paper and drew out the design.

I then set drawing on a soft surface I did not care about and cut it out with an exacto knife and took it to a FedEx office type place and had them plastic laminate it.

In this way the plastic lamination on both sides stuck to each other within the cut out portion of stencil. I then recut out the design and was good to go.

If you go to the River and put in custom tennis racquet stencil you will find a place I reached out to and I purchased other high school logos from schools in our area. They did a great job!