What were old laminates printed on?

I got to looking at my old boards from the 60’s, and it looks like the Bings were printed on some kind of card stock and cut out with a razor blade, others look like water slide transfers, ie Greg Noll, and others like the Hansens look like rice paper prints?  You old farts like Bill T…What was the go to method?

excuse me…I meant old Knowledgeable ones…

papyrus

At Velzy, the glassers would cut out water slides to lam on the boards.    Yater and Hansen used a type of paper called Onion Skin.    Silk Screening was/is the go to method, even then.   Some, like AJ, in La Jolla, used a plain paper printed decal.   In the Balsa Era, many used a rubber stamp with ink, directly on the wood.    Some guys did the rubber stamp on one ply of toilet paper, which would almost go clear.    Lots of ways to skin the cat.

EDIT: Almost forgot, prior to Rice Paper, an unglazed tissue paper was widely used.     I screened my own lams with an enamel ink, on tissue paper, for a while.

Bill

Thanks

 

you’re welcome

Some people used napkins the tissue paper normally was left for the crappy boards…

So which did you use?