It looked like I had squeeged any bubbles out from under the rice paper but after hot coating there they were. Any tips for next time. Thanks for all the info. This site has been a huge help.
I know the feeling. My first rice paper logo bubbled big time. I’ve never had a problem using the following. I place my logos the day before laminating with uncatalyzed laminating resin, squeeged out super dry, razor cut any funky folds in the paper, flatten, and let air dry. The next day just normal lamination. Works for me.
Ride on!
I’ve definately had bubbles in the laminates, but I don’t think they’re comming after you squeezed them out, I just think they’re hard to notice.
I haven’t had much problem recently… I make sure to put some resin under my laminates for the bottom: squeegee it flat and throw the laminate down. On the deck I put the laminate between the two layers of glass. Other than that, I just make sure to really squeegee the laminates hard when I’m wetting out the glass.
the glassers that I watched would fold the cloth doubled over the board. put some resin on the paper, then wet it out. Then they would pull the glass back over and laminate normally. This helps saturate the rice paper from below the cloth rather then trying to push it through the weave. Seemed to work well for them.
Yea… that’s essentially what I do on the bottom, except that I also put some resin under the rice paper… maybe unncessary, but I havn’t had any bubble since, so I’m sticking with it.
Most of my logos go on opaque laminations over a colored hot coat, so I have to paint the backside of the rice paper. This effectively keeps it from saturating from the back, and I’ve had to grind off a few due to air bubbles and start over again. I never had the problem again since using a lot more resin under the paper and work it from the center out with a lot of pressure(plastic squeegee). If you only use a thin film, you can’t make enough passes to work all of the air out. Also, since the backs of the logos are painted, I use catalyzed lam resin. If it’s on a non-colored surface, I use uncatalyzed resin.
thanks all.