Posted by Dave Bull on June 25, 2012 [Permalink]

I took a break from my work on the case construction (which is the 'break', and which is the 'work'?), and got some good progress made on Jed's print of the Italian plumber!

With the key block finished the other day, the next step is colour block preparation, and I first made a 'master plan' - working on a sheet with a group of small-scale copies of the design all laid out together:

And a few hours later, the real sheets themselves were done:

Here's one of them closeup; the area coloured in yellow is of course the area of wood that will be retained:

As for what happens next ... they have to be pasted down onto fresh blocks. Here's a video showing me doing that for two of them ...

Next step ... carving!

Added by: Sharri` on June 26, 2012

Can you tell us more about the transparent paper and how and what you use to laminate the two sheets together? (If you've shown this before and I missed it, would you direct us to where we can see that done - and explained, please?)

Added by: Dave on June 26, 2012

It's been discussed many times, and if you search for the word 'gampi' on the site [Search], you will find more details.

But basically, it's just thin gampi paper laminated to a stiffer backing paper using a low-tack spray adhesive (I use the 3M '55' type).