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Re: How to put a logo on a kit boat
By:Jim Eisenmenger
Date: 9/3/1999, 7:20 am
In Response To: How to put a logo on a kit boat (Mike Plumer)

I have heard of using thin tracing paper instead of rice paper - no experience with it.

I will be trying to accomplish the same thing in a week or two, so let us know what ends up working.

> I'm building a Pygmy Coho and wanted to put a small logo under the glass
> on the deck identifying the design and its origin. I printed up a sample,
> then xeroxed it onto rice paper. When I made a test panel on scrap wood
> using some slightly bubbly epoxy left at the end of glassing the inside of
> the hull, I found that the rice paper didn't "virtually disappear in
> the resin" as I'd hoped from Nick's book, but remained as a cloudy
> opacity which obscured the grain of the wood and clearly showed the shape
> of the paper. This rice paper was fairly thick, apparently handmade -- all
> the art store seemed to stock. I'm open to any thoughts about how to get
> the logo on the boat without compromising the structural integrity of the
> glass/epoxy layer.

Messages In This Thread

How to put a logo on a kit boat
Mike Plumer -- 9/2/1999, 5:51 pm
I put the logo on... thanks
Mike Plumer -- 9/6/1999, 3:14 am
Re: How to put a logo on a kit boat
Edgar Kleindinst -- 9/3/1999, 5:43 pm
Re: How to put a logo on a kit boat
Phil Serra -- 9/3/1999, 12:20 pm
My CLC came with one
BRian T. Cunningham -- 9/3/1999, 1:05 pm
Re: How to put a logo on a kit boat
Jay Babina -- 9/3/1999, 8:44 am
Re: How to put a logo on a kit boat
Jim Eisenmenger -- 9/3/1999, 7:20 am
tracing paper is good
Pete Ford -- 9/5/1999, 7:21 pm