Shallow art work question

General Discussion
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I struggled mightily with trying to put a simple bit of acrylic paint pen artwork on the hot coat of my first board. Without describing all the problems, suffice it to say that it sucked badly enough that the other night I sanded it all off. Had to sand off my gloss coat where the paint was and took a little of the underlying hot coat off, too. Anyway, I was going to just re-gloss on the deck and leave this first board “plain”, then my 8-yr old son brings home this cool picture of a fish that he painted at school and I thought that it would look cool laminated onto the deck (wish I had it sooner). So, my question is, can I lay the fish picture transferred onto rice paper on top of the old sanded down gloss coat and gloss over it or am I just asking for more trouble? I know this lam will end up being “shallow” and therefore could be sanded into on any future ding repair in this area, but I’m less worried about that. Just want to know if it’ll work at all.

Thanks,

Jim

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Here’s what I would do:

  1. Sand some more where you want your rice paper laminate to go. Almost down to the fiberglass.

  2. Laminate your rice paper and cover it with a piece of thin fiberglass. 2 oz would be fine, 4 oz will do.

  3. Re-hot-coat over it. Re-sand. Re-gloss.

This way, you won’t sand through your rice paper, since fiberglass would be hit first.

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Thanks, Balsa. I may give that a shot.

Jim

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I do this when I want to place a logo over acid splash. Very occasionally the rice paper curls a little at the edges so you need to allow a reasonable margin around the logo so that if the raised edges are hit by the sander the edges of the logo aren’t touched. I always use a thickish hot coat anyway so this will help !

Steve

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Jim, I’ve done the same thing before. You can go ahead and sand right down to the cloth, but not through it, then proceed as stated before: 4 oz cloth over the lam, hotcoat, gloss. Doug