Looks good to me.
If you start with an unchromed plate, you could use the same method and then send away to get the plate fully chromed. I don’t know if you can chrome over an already (now partially) chromed plate. I was thinking it would be nice to have a neck plate with my SB logo on just the other day.
It was definitely an experiment. I think it would look better (and perhaps at some point it will?) if the copper oxidizes as on a penny. I think you could probably polish it and get it re-chromed, but that might be more trouble/cost than it's worth. Also, I am not sure you'd see the logo anymore. This approach just removes the chrome. Other than a bit of oxidation it doesn't seem to do anything to the copper(ish) metal underneath. The chrome plating is so thin that I am guessing that if you re-chromed after doing this the logo might disappear.Originally Posted by Simon Barden
Folks using this method often say that if you don't have access to a vinyl cutting printer that there are places that will do it for you. But it seems to me that such an approach would not be much cheaper than using one of the laser etching services on Reverb or eBay that will make the logo from a jpeg. Laser etching appears not to go through the chrome, but just returns the neckplate with your logo in chrome matte, which may be closer to what you're after. Or so it is advertised.
For a super simple logo like what I attempted it took me about 20 min to get the tape on neckplate, and another 15 to carry stuff out to the kitchen stove and do the etching. Less than 3/4 of an hour start to finish. (I did it on the stove to have the hood sucking air out. Pretty sure chrome fumes are not good to inhale...and it does "smoke" a bit.) Not bad for a DIY process...if you like the outcome.
It also occurred to me (albeit late in the process) that a person could do the logo on the back of the neckplate. If you like it, replicate on the front. If you don't, it's only cost you an hour.
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