I tried to find past discussions, but no luck, so I’ll ask again. How do you remove the ink the mill stamps on boards (pt in this case)? Sanding makes it fainter, but I was hoping to make it disappear. Am trying lacquer thinner next, but am afraid it will just make it soak in deeper.
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The only things that work for me are:
I'll be watching this thread hoping someone has a better solution - lol.
Doesn't your BI need to see the grade stamps?
What I'm doing won't need a BI, (thank God!) (Not that I usually have a BI check my work anyway!) Actually, this is still that sculpture I've been working on. This is turning out to be a lot more involved that I imagined--it's becoming the Eiffel Tower of sculptures!
Anyway, between lacquer thinner and sanding, I got most of the ink down to a faint print.
Hey Danno,
I've actually had pretty good luck sanding, first with 60 or 80 grit, then down to 120 or 180. ALso, I don't know if your sculpture would allow this, but I often use regular 2x12 doug fir/hem fir for stair treads, and I run them through the planer. this will affect the rise of the steps by the amount you take off, but if everything is equal, it's ok. The most I've ever had to take off is 3/32. If you have access to a planer, it's worth a shot.
like to see some photos of the sculpture.
Don't know if it will work on ink stains but I've heard oxygen bleach does miracles. I have some on the way this week. I'm curious to see how good it really is
Yeah, I thought about different bleaches--even oxalic acid, but was afraid it would make a light spot where the stamp had been--look almost as bad. Of course, I could stain the boards, but would rather not make a career out of this one project! The other side of the stamped boards had knots and so on, so I had to choose the lesser of two evils!
Include the stamp as part of the art! Paint it lime green or paisley!What sort of sculpture? Gotta picture?++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd." Voltaire
I'll try to post pictures when it's done--the thing cannot be put in the place where they want it shown until June 1. I will have to move it to the exhibition site in pieces, since it will be over seven feet tall and will weigh about 500 pounds. (I hope to borrow a truck and trailer and the guy I often work with will help me load and unload it.) We have all that day and the next to get everything ready, then the show opens on the third! Won't even know where the site is until mid-May.
[This was almost like trying out for a team--they gave us drawings of what the prefab. blocks would look like, then we submitted drawings of our proposed sculpture. Those who were accepted were then sent small blocks--about 1/12th scale and we made a sculpture (had to look like our drawing). Models were due the middle of January, but we weren't notified if we'd been accepted for the next stage until mid-March! Those whose models were accepted were then given up to 25 full scale blocks made of pt plywood from which to make the sculpture. The full-sized sculptures use blocks that are about the size of a 12" concrete block--but they are parallelograms looking down on them (not rectangles) and all the faces are beveled.
[Makes it interesting to put them together. There is no leeway between what your model looked like and what the final looks like--must be a copy. They will be put up somewhere downtown in honor of the blocks' inventor, a fairly famous local architect who would have been 100 years old last year (Alden B. Dow). They tried this last year, but couldn't get the blocks made correctly, so it was postponed. Because we are limited to using 25 of these ready-made blocks, it's a challenge to make something that is different and artisitc and most important, something that a person can actually build! Mu wife thinks I'm crazy to even try!
[Last time I got to see other proposals and they included lights and fountains and glass and copper roofs (Sphere and Seeyou would love them!). Dow actually used lots of copper in his buildings--one (his home/studio) is even lined with copper as it is sitting in a river that flows past an underwater room with a window. My sculpture is just blocks on a two tiered platform.
Oh, I received a $300 stipend, but if for any reason I fail to deliver the sculpture on the specified date, I return that money, plus a $500 penalty! (Maybe the wife is right!)]
I have all the fixins for a slate and copper fountain that I was SUPPOSED to have done on 4/4/06...my wife is head muckity muck of the local Arts council or something.
When I saw what Hunter has displayed in Lowes I got inspired, but other parts of life interfered with my time frame. I WILL get it done, and post it here as soon as I can get it wrapped up.
Can't hardly wait to see you project.
Oh, I can often get the ink off with a hand plane if the wood is not too wet.
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You gotta be kidding me ..Jorge is @ what %? Now?
I look forward to seeing the fountain. Copper would be nice, but I wouldn't want to steal someone else's idea. I told the woman who wanted to do the fountain to get a solar powered pump and to run the lights the same way. Don't know if she is a "finalist."
The only thing in common with Hunters is water, copper,slate and light...stealing what? (G)
No really, not even close to what has been done by them.
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