2 new taphandle labels

I kind of like how these turned out. Hope I'm not breaking any rules of etiquette by posting more than one, but I've been in a taphandle making frenzy over the past couple of weeks.

Love that first one. Of course I just finished watching the John Adams miniseries so that may have something to do with it.

They look great, except I can't make out the name of the beer on the second one, and I can barely make out lager...perhaps consider outlining those in black...

But overall they are cool!

Agreed with Revvy on the wording being a little hard to read on the second label, but they look great.

I really like the first one. Is it similar to what you use when you bottle?

+1 on the second one being hard to read. Changing the lettering colour to black may help, or it may make it too dark... Either way I'd have a look?

I think I would at least outline it in dark just to see if it will be more legible that way. I like the design though. I think it would stick out more though with the darker outline.

Well, these two are already done so short of remaking the tap handle it is what it is. I agree that it's hard to read, though. These gifs got a little crunchy, too... it's not that bad on the finished product.

Oh, and +1 on the John Adams intro... That was my inspiration for that design. I'm glad that came through.

I'll dig around and see if I can get a good pic of the finished handle. Oh, and I don't bottle much but when I do the labels look nothing like this. I go with rectangular labels and I usually come up with a more personalized name.


Edit: cleaned up the resolution on the Helles label

Here's what it looks like as a finished product if anyone's interested. It's tough to shoot a close-up of these because of the gloss, but it's better than nothing.

Great labels - look even better on the handles! Nice work

+1 on them looking great on the handles. Good job!

Thank you, thank you... With that I suppose I will end my attention whoring for the day.

Those tap handles are pretty slick... How did you attach the designs to the wood?

Nice handle work! Great job!

absolutely beautiful

kornbread said:

Those tap handles are pretty slick... How did you attach the designs to the wood?

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They're decoupaged on with Mod Podge, then a few coats of glossy spar urethane. The mod podge affixes them to the wood and protects them from the urethane.