paint pad for applying sizing

By the way, Gord, I want to thank you for your suggestion of using a
paint pad to finish off and smooth out gelatin sizing (which if I
remember right, you were applying with a roller). I took that
suggestion a step farther and now I apply my gelatin sizing with a
paint pad rather than with a brush. I use the pad saturated with
gelatin first to saturate the paper with gelatin; this leaves
bubbles, but then I squeeze the gelatin out of the pad and run it
across the paper again to smooth the size and remove the bubbles. It
really makes for fast and even sizing. I'm thinking next of getting
a separate pad fthat won't ever be soaked into the gelatin solution,
so that I'll always have a dry pad ready for the smoothing and de-
bubbling step, and won't have to squeeze the gelatin out of the pad
each time, that is, for each piece of paper.
Katharine
Received on Thu Mar 9 15:05:38 2006