Attach a pattern, no tape, no glue

[LarryEA]

Here is a method to put a pattern on wood and not use tape or glue.

No fumes, no odor!

This method is called ' IMAGE TRANSFER ' 

Here is how:

Needs:  Polymer Emulsion, a small 4 inch roller, 1/2 to 3/4 inch brush

* Print a MIRROR IMAGE of your pattern. (see note 1 below)

* Sand wood very smooth

* Using brush, apply a light coat of polymer to first the pattern and then to the wood.

* Place pattern on the wood and using the roller, roll the pattern smooth removing

    the excess polymer. *** You cannot roll too much. the more the better.

* Let the pattern (polymer) dry. *** I use a heat gun or hair dryer to speed this up

                                                                           Use these on low or warm settings.

* When dry, apply a liberal amount of water to soak the paper.

    Rubbing with your fingers, start to roll the paper off.  Continue rolling the paper off.

    The water removes the paper, the ink stays.  There is your pattern.

   My example here took about 20 minutes to transfer this picture.

  Not bad since it takes near that time to apply a pattern with tape and glue.    

 

1 ** Any words,profiles, etc must be printed mirror image so it shows on the wood corectly.

 

Here is the picture I will transfer to wood ** I did NOT  do mirror image.

                               *** This is just a picture and not a pattern ***

                                     

I applied polymer and dried it. Starting to remove paper.

                                     

Now most of the paper is removed and if this were a pattern... you are read to drill holes.

                                    

 

**** You can do this with color also

                                    

                          

 

[Gordster]

Thank you Larry...You had mentioned this to me once before..I am

going to look into it,sounds very easy and clean up might be a bonus.

Only thing I guess is you Have to remember to make mirror image.

 

 

Gordie

[amazingkevin]

Nice and interesting but i like spray and glue removal method of 3 minutes rather than 20 minutes just to put the picture on  and them more time to remove.

[LarryEA]

Nice and interesting but i like spray and glue removal method of 3 minutes rather than

20 minutes just to put the picture on  and them more time to remove.

Hummm, didn't know I said THAT!

[Smudger]

There is a video of this on YouTube I think, people use the same method to transfer photos to wood

[LarryEA]

There is a video of this on YouTube I think, people use the same method to transfer photos to wood

 Yepper! If you can print it, you can transfer it.

I have not tried photos, magazine or newspaper pictures but

I bet you can do these also. Of course these would be mirror images

unless you scanned and printed.

Edited May 20, 2015 by LarryEA

[Smudger]

I think it only works with a certain printer, not sure which one it's either inkjet or laser jet

[LarryEA]

I think it only works with a certain printer, not sure which one it's either inkjet or laser jet

I have both types of printers and have not noticed a difference.  

[Lucky2]

So Larry, there's no difference in the outcome between the laser and the inkjet. Must be because there's no heat involved in transferring the pattern over, like there is with the laser heat transfer? Any picture you scan and print to make into a pattern for doing this with, has to be a mirrored image, or, the subject on the pic will be backwards of what the actual pic was if not mirrored before printing. I found this out the hard way a few years ago, we were transferring old family pics and every so often I'd forget to mirror image the pic and it would print backwards on me. We had a great laugh, but, it was expensive. I don't remember how many quilt blocks we ruined that day, but we had fun.

Len