Weird Customer Request...Greeting Cards on a board?

General Discussion
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Looking for some expert advice.  I have a customer that wants me to shape a 6’5’’ finless display only board for her.  She wants me to put some old greeting cards on the deck.  

Here is my question.

How do I do this? 

I dont have the supplies for vaccum bagging and I dont know how to to vaccum bag.  

 

Can I lay the cards on the deck and glass normally? 

My fear is that because the cards are thicker than than the glass, I may have a ton of air pockets from the glass and resin not curing to the board. 

 

Any and all advice is appreciated and even a tutorial would be awesome!!

 

Thanks!!

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Make a good quality copy of them on a standard printer paper.The colours of the picture of the card might bleed and also the messages written on it.Plus of course you can have air bubbles everywhere.Don’t do that if you’re not a very experienced glasser as we both know that if you fk up the glass job…

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On one of my first boards, I used a thick card-stock construction safety sign as the logo.  I cut out the “Peligro” part of it and stuck it in between the layers of deck glass like normal.  No issues.  There was a bump that you could feel where the edge of the logo was, but no bubbles.  This was with epoxy.

Maybe I just got lucky.

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Hi,

Can’t u glue it to the foam before glassing using wood-glue and a non-sticky press like plastic ?

then do the glass job.

But what Fishbone said is true: depending on the ink used it might bleed… ask her for a “test” card ?

Gd luck with that one !

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Great advice above, especially regards to bleeding.

I have done this with thick card (postcards) 

I glued the cards onto the board with epoxy, let it set for a couple of hours (tack free but still flexable) used a wallpaper roller to gently press the card and edges flush into the foam with a wallpaper roller (anything small and cylindrical will do), glassed over with epoxy as usual, no problems, no bubbles or lumps.

Things I learned:

Do a test run first on a scrap of foam so you get the hang of how much pressure to use

Do it under your shaping lights so you can see what you are doing.

Hope that helps

 

 

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if the cards are thick then you can set a router to the depth of the cards and route out a litle spot for them.

if they are thin cards then just set them with some weight on them and use a roller like mentioned above to press them into the foam.

maybe you can spray a layer of clear coat over them to potentially reduce bleeding?

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spray the cards with a acylic clear to keep them from bleeding.