Progressing nicely
This’ll be a quickie, as I have a bunch of stuff to do yet tonight for my trip tomorrow, and I wanted to get this post up for the weekend. I got my fish glued together, and then I had to do a lot of tedious scraping to get the overflow superglue off the edges with an Exacto knife. Don’t ask about the Exacto knife. Anyway, I decided to experiment with the use of acrylic paint as a glue. I’d used it before for scribing, as paint is a lot easier to cut into than wood, and it worked pretty well. And that was my initial plan here as well. However, when I put the acrylic paint on the wood, it seemed so thick, I wondered if it would function as a light-weight glue: strong enough to hold it for scribing, but not so strong that the plate would break when I tried to get it off later, a problem I’ve had with both superglue and Duco cement.
Once it’d dried, I scribed it with an Exacto knife. Slicker than snot, and no movement of the pattern as I scribed, though I held it still just in case. And then I slid the blade under one age to pop it up, and it came up so easily. I’ll do that again. It might be a good technique for me, and the paint will just be sanded away.
Here’s the backside of the plate; just a little paint that came off easily with a few passes of the sanding block. I didn’t want to get overzealous. It’s just acrylic, so I could probably just wash it in soap and water, and it’d be fine. Water doesn’t do anything to dried superglue.
Next up: routing–next weekend. Routing’s tough for me; I need to do it when I’m fresh.
