>I have a big roll of wide freezer paper that I use on my bench when I am finishing or glueing. One side of it is waxy so stuff doesn't stick and it is white so no color transfer.
>I have a roll of polyethylene film. Anyone want some? We are due for a warehouse clean-up in July. If you don't mind some graphics on some of them, that is.
>Offset printing ink, IIRC from a conversation I had with my ink chemist a few years ago, is made from oil(petro/tung/soy/etc), varnish, thinners, pigments, and driers. Hmmm ... sound familiar? ;-) News ink is light on the driers so it won't dry on the high-speed press' rollers. If you apply oil to the printed paper, yes it will reactivate the ink, same as if it was oil on a bowl.
>Note that you might be able to get free rolls of newspaper WITHOUT any ink. I get end rolls from the local newspaper in a couple of widths, free for the asking. (Actually, I don't even have to ask - they keep a big bin by the door for anyone who wants to take some.) Sometimes they even have white bond paper.
>This thread is making me wonder if it might be possible to intentionally transfer a headline from a newspaper to a freshly oiled piece. So, if you were super-creative say, you would put a montage of interesting words together from headlines, and "stick" them to the oiled wood for that perfect length of time - long enough to transfer the image, short enough to keep the paper from sticking. I don't imagine the image would be ultra-crisp, but it might be kind of fun to see how it would turn out.
I've been at my lathe for a grand total of 1 hour during the past month (newborn in the house), so I guess I won't be trying it anytime soon myself, but if I ever get a shot at it, I'll submit a complete report.
>In my pea brain I envisioned laying the paper on the piece in the correct orientation, except it would have to magically transfer through the paper to the wood. For some reason it never entered my mind that there might just be writing on both sides of the paper.
So, my latest great idea for somebody to try can only be tried for maybe .0000001% of the newspaper, unless there are a lot of palendromes (spelling?). Otto. Anna. Mom.
I've got all kinds of great inventions like this. concrete tires with rubber roads, carriage screws, the list goes on and on.
