I am in the process of my first build (kaholo 14) as a gift for my bride to be. With the wedding coming up, I had this crazy idea of having people at the wedding sign the board rather than a guest book we will never look at again. Problem is the wedding is 1400 miles away so the board won't be making it there.
I was trying to think of what I could take out there to have people sign and then permanently affix to the rear deck/transom. Could people sign rice paper and then epoxy that in?
Yes you can do signatures or art work on rice paper then put it under the glass cloth . If the rice paper is under the glass cloth it can not smudge when you sqeegee the resin on the cloth. I prefer to put my rice paper under 2 oz cloth .
Rice paper is bit delicate for lots of exuberant wedding guests to be signing, especially with unknown inks that may or may not be soluble in epoxy. I'd have them sign normal paper, then scan and transfer the signatures to rice paper via a laser printer.
In addition to not having to worry about the ink smearing on the boat, you can artistically arrange the scanned signatures and have the originals available for a second (or third or fourth) try in case something messes up.
Sorry, big fingers. As I was saying I know both SNCO and Kearing Brand makes UV resistant archival marking pens, available at art supply stores. Varnish, varnish, varnish, you don't want them to fade....SEEYA Jack