It might have been an independent discovery of the tape technique but, the same sort of thing was developed about 10 years ago by Jonathan Clowes and Wray Schelin.
Wray was working with Jonathan to make an aluminum core for a veneer clad piece for a cruise ship.
Wray had been bouncing ideas off the Artmetal mail list about flexible patterns, because the standard then was to cut slits and paper and overlap them. We hadn't come up with anything quite that easy.
Jonathan came up with the idea of using transfer tape and killing the adhesive with talcum powder.
Wray took it from there and spread it throughout the automotive restoration community.
My guess is that is where your friend picked up the trick.
The plastic wrap variation was one that came up in discussions on the site that Wray founded, Metalmeet.com.
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It might have been an independent discovery of the tape technique but, the same sort of thing was developed about 10 years ago by Jonathan Clowes and Wray Schelin.
Wray was working with Jonathan to make an aluminum core for a veneer clad piece for a cruise ship.
Wray had been bouncing ideas off the Artmetal mail list about flexible patterns, because the standard then was to cut slits and paper and overlap them. We hadn't come up with anything quite that easy.
Jonathan came up with the idea of using transfer tape and killing the adhesive with talcum powder.
Wray took it from there and spread it throughout the automotive restoration community.
My guess is that is where your friend picked up the trick.
The plastic wrap variation was one that came up in discussions on the site that Wray founded, Metalmeet.com.
Gene Olson
Sculptor
Elk River, MN