I've sen a few people with this setup, and love the look of it, but how well does the decal hold onto the carbon fiber viny back (I have one on order, but would love to get a vinyl sticker too!)
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i would be interested in knowing as well. Although the carbon fiber look of the skin is nice enough for me. but it would be cool if i could add a decal or something else on it.
The carbon fiber on the back is just a giant carbon fiber sticker so to speak. You peel it off the paper it comes on and stick it on the back. I like mine.
I belive the guy who makes the carbon fiber wraps makse some with cutouts and other stuff on them. Have a look at his site.
I don't know how well the carbon fiber is stuck on mine, I have not tried to peel it off, but if I remember correctly it came on 3M paper so its probably a good sticker.
Sorry, what I mean is, some people put a decal (like Andy the Android) on top of their carbon fiber vinyl 'sticker' and I wonder how well the decal holds onto that.
Scott
I have the carbon fiber sticker on the back of my g-tab. I have an android andy decal sticking to that (andy pissing on an apple). They both are rock solid. No peeling issues at all.
It depends on the quality of the adhesive of the decal thats going over the carbon fiber. A couple of tips, make sure the surface is clean (wipe it with alcohol) and press the sticker in good with a credit card covered in a paper towel. Hit the decal with a blow drier and press the decal down again. That should stop most of them from coming off.
I picked up the carbon fiber skin (via eBay) and find it quite nice! Good quality very easy install. Add just enough "tacky" feel to add condifence when holding it as to not slip out of fingers. Looks pretty cool too of course!
http://cgi.ebay.com/CARBON-INVISIBL...456474?pt=PDA_Accessories&hash=item19c2dd29da
Indeed, mine arrived yesterday and I am quite pleased with it!
I have the Skinomi carbon on my G... put a few stickers on the back a week or two ago and they are holding up perfectly fine. No seperation at all. Looks real cool too
Just ordered mine!! Can't wait!
Here is the final result:
Android by scottder, on Flickr
Just purchased a carbon fibre sheet from ebay based on the cool pics from this thread. Thanks for the inspiration.
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Hi guys,
have any one come across any real carbon fiber casing for blackstone? I am looking for the real carbon fiber and not the carbon fiber look type.
There are quite plenty for iphones but i cant find any for blackstone.
it will be nice if there is something for blackstone like the one in the pic.
i thought that was a leather case with a 3d pattern on it, not a carbon fiber casing.
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i thought that was a leather case with a 3d pattern on it, not a carbon fiber casing.
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it is a real carbon fiber
Real carbon fiber ???
Are you sure ?
I's very expensive and very difficul to meke, with all those curved parts, and the hole.....
For produce it, you need a mandrel (very expensive if you do not produce thousand of pieces, and a tecnology (poltrusion) where you use 4/5 times the carbon you need for the piece, and the cost goes up and up, and up.
Probably it is made in glass fiber. it looks quite the same, but has not the same quality, quality that you do not need for a cover.
the 90 % of carbon accessories you find (for car - moto - ecceccecc) are in glass.
I'd like a real cover in carbon fiber, my company make cargbon fibers products. It should be part of my "entry card"
I know its difficult and very expensive. But then its is real.
I am carbon fiber freak. lol.
I have tons of carbon fiber products....
I have the Black Carbon Fiber back skin and clear screen protector. I put the Carbon Fiber piece on and it looks great. Here is the problem. I misread the instructions and used the fluid on the back skin and they state later in the instructions to not use fluid to put on that part. There is not much fluid in their little spray bottle and it was used up on the back skin. I have no more to be able to put on the screen protector. Yeah stupid I know. Anyone know what their solution is? Or is it better to wait until they respond to my email and either purchase some more or will zagg solution work?
They used to not even supply the solution. They would just say use a solution of water and a tiny bit of liquid soap... I think that would be fine
You aren't suppose to put water on the back.
However I hope you know the solution is basically water and a bit of soap or shampoo I believe.
You can easily do this yourself.
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You aren't suppose to put water on the back.
However I hope you know the solution is basically water and a bit of soap or shampoo I believe.
You can easily do this yourself.
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Yeah I realize not to put the solution on the Carbon Fiber part now. Got worried after I realized that your not supposed to wet the Carbon Fiber piece and took it back off. I did not want to chance any damage to the tablet itself. The front pieces of Carbon Fiber trim went on without water. There was still a lot of moisture on the back which I dried off cleaned up. I added a little water to the original spray bottle and shook it up and could see there must be some residual of the soap/shampoo still there and attempted the screen protector. With the trim pieces of the Carbon Fiber on the front I could not get the screen protector to lay down on the screen decent. Worried that I would have excess water near those parts and where the screen joined the body I took it off cleaned it up and said screw it. If anyone puts these on in the future put the screen protector down before the trim pieces on the sides. You will save yourself alot of grief and worry.
Out of curiosity, how's the feel of the skin across the back of the tablet? Does it seem to be sticking well?
I've been going on back and fourth on getting a Skinomi but with the textured back on the Transformer I wasn't sure how it would look or how well it would apply.
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Out of curiosity, how's the feel of the skin across the back of the tablet? Does it seem to be sticking well?
I've been going on back and fourth on getting a Skinomi but with the textured back on the Transformer I wasn't sure how it would look or how well it would apply.
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It actually sticks well and if you've ever felt carbon fiber skins before it feels pretty much the same. It has a nice texture an grip.
The solution is 90% water, mixed with a little bit of soap. I use to work at Ghost Armor.
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It actually sticks well and if you've ever felt carbon fiber skins before it feels pretty much the same. It has a nice texture an grip.
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Thanks for the input. I've got a hardback sleeve I like (Built NY "Hoodie" 10 inch) but having that next level of protection from scratches and scuffs will be nice. I'm going for dark wood to match my Evo.
I'd really something akin to the OtterBox commuter series but since they're not going to be making one for the Transformer I'll go with the skin/sleeve combo for now.
skinomi claims that all you have to do is add water to the bottle, the leftover residue should still be enough for a good mixture.
I received my carbon fiber skin last week (back only) from icarbons.com and this thing is so great I needed to share with everyone...
The skin covers the entire back, it was very simple to install, the fit is perfect (used a hair dryer to make sure corner edges were down) and there is no "bubbling" effect. The best part IMO is the feel of this skin. It's not like your typical glossy sticker feeling cheap-o skin, it has a nice grip feeling if that makes any sense and the quality is top notch.
Here’s a link directly to the skin.
http://www.icarbons.com/collections/htc-evo-3d
Looks good!
Amazing this skin! When I will have my Evo 3D (in few months snif...), I will buy it!
Thanks to share that with us!
that looks clean!!
How good is the texture?
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How good is the texture?
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Only thing I can think of to compare it to is it almost feels like the ridges on the oem battery door.
It's pretty nice feeling, as it doesnt feel like just a sticker is on the phone - more like its natural and a part of the phone.
I bought one!
Finally broke down and bought this skin for my MacBook Air... I love it, not as hard to install as I thought it would be.
With a little time, an exacto knife and some extreme patients and a steady hand you could make a carbon fiber skin just like the OP's yourself. Here is a link to an Ebay search for Carbon Fiber samples. You could also search Google. Most of these are 4" by 8" samples for $1.99. There are some larger samples for $5. I think there may even be a tut on how to do it in the OG Evo forums. Of course the holes cut would be different, but the concept is the same.
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With a little time, an exacto knife and some extreme patients and a steady hand you could make a carbon fiber skin just like the OP's yourself. Here is a link to an Ebay search for Carbon Fiber samples. You could also search Google. Most of these are 4" by 8" samples for $1.99. There are some larger samples for $5. I think there may even be a tut on how to do it in the OG Evo forums. Of course the holes cut would be different, but the concept is the same.
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Correct! I did this to my white Evo 4G. I bought a black battery door and wrapped it in the carbon fiber. It turned out awesome an no one believed that I made it because it looked sooooo good. The feel of the material is very nice. I used it for a few months and it looked like it did the day I put it on the entire time. I just received my stock 3D battery door that I bought on eBay. I considered doing the carbon fiber to it, but I'm afraid that the texture on the stock door may cause issues. I may just paint a red stripe on my extra door, haven't decided yet. Also, i plan on buying a big sheet of the carbon fiber anyway to wrap the top of my new 17" HP Envy laptop. with the extra I'll probably try my 3D battery door. If it doesn't turn out good then I can just peel it off.... we'll see
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Went on eBay ab ordered 2 "sample" sheets. They are each 4" x 8" each. Got one in red carbon fiber and one in white carbon fiber. In about an hour I'm going to get a 24" x 48" black carbon fiber sheet. Going to wrap the top of my 17" HP laptop and will have enough extra to do my battery door in black also. I'm thinking I may wrap the smooth part of my Commuter case in the red.
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Damn... the price is what killed it for me. That looks sooooo good though... if only someone was up to making legitimate carbon fiber battery doors. I don't care about the price, I'd buy one in seconds.
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Damn... the price is what killed it for me. That looks sooooo good though... if only someone was up to making legitimate carbon fiber battery doors. I don't care about the price, I'd buy one in seconds.
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I agree about the price. That's why i bought the material to make my own. .99 cents to1.99, and free shipping, for a sheet of carbon fiber big enough to cover the battery door and camera area
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Hello everyone this is my first post in xda. I'm very happy to join the G3 family and want to share my self made carbon fiber case, although there're many defections
This actually a carbon fiber-wrapped tpu case that I was attempting to increase the overall protection. I used 3k carbon fiber cloth and clear epoxy to wrap the Distronic Ultra TPU Case.
Was going to put on 2 or 3 layers of carbon fiber clothe, however the extra corner padding of the case is a huge problem to the application. As I'm not using a professional(of course, I'm not pro as well...) vacuum bag, it's hard to have the layer completely contact the case, which causes bubbles and irregular dents...terrible.
In order to put more epoxy to layer the edge, I gave up the second and third layer of carbon fiber...that's another mistake. After sanding and polishing, the case now has a decent look in it's back, yet the super thick epoxy layer makes it hard to cure, also the only one layer of carbon fiber does not produce much toughness, and the case is literally still "soft" but thicker...there is a comparison image with 4d carbon fiber vinyl on my Ballistic Urbanite case
By the way, the Ballistic Urbanite case feels great, super firm fit with the G3. The rubber is soft while strong. The button cover is easy to press, you don't have to explore your finger into the "crater" anymore. However the rubber corner doesn't expand to the back of the case, and the button cover is like 1mm-protruded out of the back, so when you put the phone faced up, you are scratching the glossy(a finger print magnet) hard plastic area and the rubber button cover. Other than that, it is strong, light weight and pretty simple case to me.
I really want to drop test my custom case with my G3 and see how it performs...but it would be a huge lost for me ether break the phone or the case itself...we will see
Thanks for watching.
Nice work!
Awesome.
Looks awesome.
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OMFG! Looks great! Amazing work!
dbrand was kind enough to ship me some skins for review for both the LG G4 and LG G3.
I figured I would post the reviews here on XDA to help the most people I could, here goes.
For the LG G4 I have the Black Carbon Fiber skin with accents and the White Carbon Fiber skin with accents.
For the LG G3 I have the Mahogany Skin with accents, and the Zebra Wood Skin with accents.
The skins arrived in simple plastic sleeves with a dbrand insert and the skin itself.
Once you open these the first thing you will notice is the skins have a texture.
The carbon fiber really looks and feels like carbon fiber.
You can actually feel the wood grain in both the wood skins.
The printing on these skins is second to none, they all look realistic.
The cutouts on the speaker grill, camera, and sensors are perfect.
The application of this skin is the easiest yet.
All you have to do is place the button and camera covers (accents) on.
Then just use the 3M paper to keep the entire skin from sticking as you align the camera cutouts.
Realign the paper sideways and align the speaker cutout.
Remove the paper completely.
Finally use a hair dryer or heat gun to heat up the edges and press them into place.
I used a heat gun on the lowest setting, a hair dryer may take slightly longer.
Just in case you do not believe how easy the install is, I have made a video of me installing one.
Remember I have no extra experience doing this, it is this easy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQFYXfo47Z4&feature=youtu.be
Once installed you will really see how perfect dbrand made these skins.
Every cutout and edge will be exactly where it should be.
There are no overlapped places or short edges.
I have used both Skickwraps and dbrand and in my opinion dbrand has done a much better job with their skins.
If anyone is considering skins, dbrand is the way to go.
At $9.95 for just the back and accents and $17.95 for the back, accents, and front, these are a great price.
https://dbrand.com/shop/lg-g4
I hope this review will help someone.
Please ask any questions you want, I will try and answer if I can.
P.S. my favorite is the White Carbon Fiber back with the Black Carbon Fiber accents.
I have the black carbon fiber skin. It's GREAT!
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I got Black one for me and White one for my daughter:
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I just bought the Matte Black skin and I'm really satisfied with the skin. Shipping to germany was done in under 2 weeks.
Installation was easy.
Now the G3 is not so slippery as without the skin. The grip is better than before.
Is it still compatible with other cases such as the Spigen Slim Armor? I'd love to have dbrand skins but with the option to be still protected with a case if ever I go outdoors