Avinash Arora
02-10-2016, 9:17 AM
Hi Sawmill Creek! I'm new here. I've read numerous threads randomly over the last little while, and finally decided to make a thread to pose a question, however I ended up discovering an answer on my own. I thought I'd share it anyway because I had great difficulty finding anything in all of my google searching.
My fiancee and I are making save-the-dates for our wedding, and I had the idea of buying veneer, cutting them into postcard sizes and gluing them to paper cardstock. It's coming out pretty well so far, will end up costing roughly 53 cents per card, not including postage, and will be made of real hardwood, some exotic even.
Anywhosits, my original question was what adhesive to use for gluing paper to veneer, and I did all sorts of searching, aside from having a professional heat bond the paper (which is still probably the best option) there wasn't much information out there.
I tried a few different kinds of PVA glue, and they were okay, I thought about contact cement, but with the edges exposed I wanted something that's a little less susceptible to splitting. Several adhesives later, we eventually found that Super 77 worked the best. The difficulty with flexible glues was the difference in movement from the paper to the wood, most of the PVA glues resulted in curling of some kind of another. Super glue worked really well, but was pretty expensive for 100 postcards at like 2-3 cards per ounce of CA glue.
The spray adhesive seemed to not curl things at all, but since the wood wasn't perfectly flat, this was the method I worked out for me:
Paper and wood face down, spray both backs, and flip the paper onto the wood, press, slide around (you have about 15 seconds of working time) until it's aligned as good as you can get it, then put them aside. After they sit like this for 30 minutes, stack them all up and press them together to flatten and really bond them, but separate them again right away and put on a drying rack fora day or so, then trim any flashing or excess.
Thanks for being an awesome community! I hope that if someone decides to google this topic later on they find this thread and I can save them some headache and effort! Super 77 worked excellently!
After I'm done with the screen printing on the wood, I'll share the photos for the "build log"
My fiancee and I are making save-the-dates for our wedding, and I had the idea of buying veneer, cutting them into postcard sizes and gluing them to paper cardstock. It's coming out pretty well so far, will end up costing roughly 53 cents per card, not including postage, and will be made of real hardwood, some exotic even.
Anywhosits, my original question was what adhesive to use for gluing paper to veneer, and I did all sorts of searching, aside from having a professional heat bond the paper (which is still probably the best option) there wasn't much information out there.
I tried a few different kinds of PVA glue, and they were okay, I thought about contact cement, but with the edges exposed I wanted something that's a little less susceptible to splitting. Several adhesives later, we eventually found that Super 77 worked the best. The difficulty with flexible glues was the difference in movement from the paper to the wood, most of the PVA glues resulted in curling of some kind of another. Super glue worked really well, but was pretty expensive for 100 postcards at like 2-3 cards per ounce of CA glue.
The spray adhesive seemed to not curl things at all, but since the wood wasn't perfectly flat, this was the method I worked out for me:
Paper and wood face down, spray both backs, and flip the paper onto the wood, press, slide around (you have about 15 seconds of working time) until it's aligned as good as you can get it, then put them aside. After they sit like this for 30 minutes, stack them all up and press them together to flatten and really bond them, but separate them again right away and put on a drying rack fora day or so, then trim any flashing or excess.
Thanks for being an awesome community! I hope that if someone decides to google this topic later on they find this thread and I can save them some headache and effort! Super 77 worked excellently!
After I'm done with the screen printing on the wood, I'll share the photos for the "build log"