Heat press fusion machine for sale.

January 30, 2010 by Mike at Wiggy Sports

Odd thing to blog this but we’ve recently upgraded one of our heat presses so our less used heat press, we’re going to sell. We’re planning to sell it on our ebay store but if anyone is interested, we’ll wait for 2-3 weeks in case anyone interested.

It’s a europa leisure HF4500 heat press with sports bed for easy slide on of shirts for best results.  You can view the technical spec for it on the following link from europa’s website

http://www.europa-leisure.com/pages/4500-tech-spec.html

guide for it at

http://www.europa-leisure.com/downloads/pdf/HF4500.pdf

It will be sold with a smaller bed for printing junior shirts and shorts as well. Press was our secondary press so although has been used quite a few times, is in excellent condition.

This is the press you’d usually see in clubs shops and sports shops. These presses are high qualiy and last long time. Can ship to any UK address except Ireland and can send some images if anyone wants. Have got original box and packaging so can send in this for complete protection.

Price new with spare bed is nearly £1150 so looking for around £800 or near offer for this including shipping to UK except Republic of Ireland.

If anyone’s interested, email us at sales@wiggysports.co.uk

Thanks

Mike

The older badges now in stock

January 10, 2010 by Mike at Wiggy Sports

In relation to the previous post, we’ve now had delivery of the older badges. As quantities are limited, we’ve listed the first lot on our ebay store and some where we have just 1 pair have been listed as an auction. The reason for ebay is the quantities are easier for us to control as these sell and have sold so quickly.

We’ve still got more to add so worth keeping an eye here on the next couple of days.

Our store is http://stores.shop.ebay.co.uk/Wiggy-Sports__W0QQ_armrsZ1

The auctions start ending 16th January 2010.

More original player issue badges

December 23, 2009 by Mike at Wiggy Sports

We’ve managed to source some more hopefully as we did a month or so ago. Same company again as they had more badges. These include I’m excited to say some Champions League starball old badges as well as a couple of original embroidered FAPL champions and plain badges which are only able to be stitched onto the sleeves. This and a good mix of Community Shield and other various badges. As soon as we get the full list, we’ll get them up online. We probably won’t get them until January now.

There’s a couple of the badges where there’s only 1 pair coming so these will be auctioned on our ebay store instead of on the website as only 1 pair will be there.

Merry Christmas to all and a Happy New Year.

New Wiggy Sports website opening 29th December 2009

December 21, 2009 by Mike at Wiggy Sports

We’ve been working hard on some cosmetic changes but there will be a new website launched on the 29th December 2009 during the day. The site will be down for a short period and then will be up and running after that. Keep your eyes peeled on the 29th.

Some retro printing no longer available

December 21, 2009 by Mike at Wiggy Sports

Before anyone panics, this isn’t all print. Unfortunately Sporting iD who produced the retro printing for us for the Chris Kay styles from 2002 onwards will no longer custom cut this for us to demand and require a 100 piece per style minimum order which means we will no longer be offering these prints. These include

  • Manchester United european prints from 2002/03 season to 2007/08
  • Arsenal 2005/06 and 2007/08 european prints,
  • Liverpool retro printing range from 2005/06 european to 2007/08 season

All the other older retro prints are still available and we can still get these for any name and number. We do have some left in stock and some we have coming in from a last order which will be listed on our ebay store but we won’t be able to get any more after this which is a shame.

If you have quite a large group of you that want nearly 100 prints of the same style, can be different name and numbers as long as the style is the same then email us and we’ll look at offering this for you. We may be able to discount it for you. Probably only going to appeal this to large shirt collecting groups.

I hope this isn’t too much of a disappointment but feel free to look at our ebay store for what’s left in stock of these styles.

http://stores.shop.ebay.co.uk/Wiggy-Sports

Manchester United 2000/01 season printing

November 2, 2009 by Mike at Wiggy Sports

We got the large delivery of old badges and Lextra FAPL print and learnt a lesson as well we thought we’d share.

For the 2000/01 season, Chris Kay produced the 1999-2000 Champions The Millenium Season badge in Lextra 3d for Manchester United match shirts. See below.

fapl_99-00_champions_badge_1

In the end Metro Sports (Who later became Sporting iD when their parent company ITW graphics merged with Chris Kay) agreed a late deal to supply Manchester United with a PU version of the badge and player size PU name and number as well. This was for the 2000/01 season only before they went for Lextra again. We have a large number of these badges now available to buy (that’s the original Chris Kay stock of Lextra 3D) and they’re available on our sleeve badge pages of player issue printing priced at £8.00 each pair.

Quite a rare badge especially considering the story.

We’re learning more and more each day and will share as we learn.

Clearing up about Manchester United retro prints…stitch or heat press

October 30, 2009 by Mike at Wiggy Sports

In our retro printing range, we offer a large selection of prints from the original supplier to major firms such as Umbro. This company printed the shirts for the matches for Umbro and also manufactured the prints themselves. This was before Sporting iD, Chris Kay etc held a monopoly on standard prints.

We’ve had questions raised over the authenticity so wanted to confirm a few points as we’ve had a conversation with the company today.

We’ll use Manchester United as an example. For the 1992/93 season, only a number was used on the back of the shirt with the Umbro logo heat pressed to it. These numbers at the start of the 1992/93 season were cloth numbers stitched onto the shirts using machinery. 

To coincide with the introduction of squad name and numbers for 1993/94 season, the cloth numbers were still stitched onto the home shirts with flock letters heat applied with a heat press onto the shirt. The Umbro logo was also heat pressd onto the cloth number. This was the same for the 1994/95 season and majority of the 1995/96 season. The 1996 FA Cup Final had cloth stitched numbers with heat applied flock names. This was for the home shirt only.

For the away and third shirts, the name and number and Umbro logos were all heat applied flock. The letters used from 1993/94 season on Manchester United home shirts would have been a nightmare to stitch on and very time consuming so heat pressing was the way forward.

Back in those days, changing from cloth stitched numbers to heat applied flock was a massive change so it had to be proved it could work. As a result, the away and 3rd shirts were purely heat applied name and numbers in flock but the home shirt stuck with cloth stitched until the 1995/96 season.

What is key is the letters and numbers were not mounted on plastic carriers as they are today. This made them fiddly to work with but as they’re weren’t commercially available in club shops back then or sports stores, it wasn’t a big deal.

I know some people want to go with ease, but any prints Manchested United used whilst with Umbro from 1993/94 to 2001/02 season should not be on a plastic carrier and should be loose letters and number material as flock unless it’s the cloth numbers. This is of course exception for the FA Premier League lextra print.

I hope that helps and gives customers an idea of what’s a correct print. We agree the retro old prints can be a little bit fiddly to apply compared to modern standards but if you want full authenticity, we’re the place to come. I think we’re the only company that offer these prints from the original supplier. Umbro passed their details to us and we wouldn’t want to confirm this but most regular customers know we would never deal in fake prints. Remember we offer a printing service with just an increase in postage cost to cover the weight of the shirt so we can always professionally print it for you and we take great pride and making your shirt look as near to the match shirt as humanly possible.

Any questions, you know we’re always happy to answer at sales@wiggysports.co.uk or mike@wiggysports.co.uk

New items definately coming into stock…….whooo hoooo

October 28, 2009 by Mike at Wiggy Sports

As an update to the previous blog entry, we’re pleased to announce we agreed details to secure the stock of old original Lextra badges, FA Premier League prints and embroidered sleeve badges. All of these items are the original items that were produced and supplied to be applied to various match shirts meaning these badges are original official items in player size and issue. Some of these would never have been made available to the general public. We’re trying to also see what else they have in the next few weeks.

****AS THESE ARE THE ORIGINAL BADGES, ONCE THEY’RE ALL GONE, THEY’RE GONE UNFORTUNATELY AND STOCK IS LIMITED ON SOME BADGES MORE COMPARED TO OTHERS*****

The list is

1997-2007 FA Premier League print Lextra player size

76mm letters, 258mm numbers in red/white, white/black and black/white

1997-2003 FA Premier League standard Lextra sleeve badges

2000-2001 FA Premier League Champions Lextra sleeve badges for 2001/02 season

2004-2007 Barclays Premiership standard Lextra sleeve badge

1988-1992 Football League embroidered badge

1997-1999 Football League Lextra badge

1997-1999 SFL Lextra 3d badge

U21 Euro 2002 embroidered badge

1996-2002 Uefa Fair Play embroidered badge

Littlewoods 97 Charity Shield Lextra badge

Axa FA Cup Lextra Badge

FA Premier League asia cup Lextra badge July 2003

Keep an eye out next week for these to appear as soon as we get stock. These will appear on our sleeve badges page at

www.wiggysports.co.uk/sleeve_badges.html

New items hopefully coming soon…….. let us have feedback

October 26, 2009 by Mike at Wiggy Sports

As always, we’re on the look out for old prints we can source. One of the suppliers we use as some people may know printed and made the name and numbers for Umbro match shirts since the 80’s. During a chat with them last week, it became apparent they have some old and quite rare badges as well as old Lextra FA Premier League print in white/black, black/white and red/white.

There’s tons of it including some of the below badges.

We’re hoping to get this into stock with all the badges Lextra being £8.00 each pair and the U21 and Fair play ones being £5.00 each badge. All of these are originals and not remakes so it will be a case of when it’s gone, it’s gone. If anyone is interested in these, add some comments to this blog post or if anyone wants any in larger quantities, let me know now by emailing mike@wiggysports.co.uk and we’ll see if we can reserve some.

There’s a few others like the 1997 Littlewoods Charity Shield, Axa FA Cup final as well.

Specially made Premier League nameblock now available….

September 25, 2009 by Mike at Wiggy Sports

The eagle eyed of you may have noticed that fitting WRIGHT-PHILLIPS straight on a new Manchester City shirt using the standard Premier League player size letters would be a bit of a nightmare. Sporting iD who hold the license for the manufacture of Premier League letters and numbers created the solution. Still player size 53mm high letters but much more narrow making the nameblock only 330mm wide roughly.

WRIGHT-PHILLIPS_8_MANCITY_STRAIGHT_1

You may have noticed this on the the match shirts and we now offer this specially made nameblock as a name and number set for £19.00 through our website. You can view it under player issue printing and then select Premier league or click here

Remains to be seen now how they’ll tackle VENNEGOOR OF HESSELINK now for Hull. That’d be a curved name and a half if printed using normal player size letters.

****UPDATE TO POST – 4TH OCTOBER 2009 @ 19.20****

The first match VENNEGOOR OF HESSELINK played, standard size letters were used making the name curve round on the whole shirt sides. We don’t have an image to publish but visit Getty Images online and search for HESSELINK and you’ll see an image of the recent Birmingham game. As of the match on 3rd October 2009, a specially made narrow letter nameblock was used which is now available for us to order from Sporting iD. Due to the cost of this, we’ll order this is people want it but won’t stock it until someone is brave enough and has enough funds to want one.