OK,
Last night I used glossy photo paper to transfer the pattern to the caulk. Left it over night to finish cureing.
Today started spraying with water from one of those little hand pumped spray bottles. I Rubbed and rubbed and nothing happened, nada, zip.
Scraped it with a razor blade scraper, still nada! Finally made a little cut into the back of the paper, the darn stuf had a thin transparent plastic film, peeled that off and tried again. Boy that paper is TOUGH!!! Probably took an hour of rubbing, even used one of those pot scrubbers with the sponge inside made for use on teflon pans. I got most of it off, maybe a thin layer here and there, no finger prints left on my fingers though.
Up shot is the ink was pastel after the transfer, came through pretty clear but too pale, so I'm hand coloring over the print with permanent markers similar to Sharpies. Then I'll seal it with some clear spray just to be sure since it will be used out of doors.
This concludes for now my experiments with the acrylic caulk medium.
Next will be finding a good transfer film that won't let the ink bead up I'd really like to be able to transfer patterns directly to the wood for cutting without going through all the fuss of tapeing and so on. A line 2 to 5 pixels wide will be mostly gone if I can stay on the line, of course I can back up and cut some more to make sure it's gone.
I hope this has been informative, that is one of the main reasons I did these experiments. I'd still like to see a photo transfer that came out as well as the demo video I watched.
Maybe some day?
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Gabby
