[BKARTS] Straightening Rolled Paper

[Scott Teplin <teplin@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Not sure if anyone cares about this sort of thing - but sometimes I 
need really big pieces of watercolor paper (60" x 70") - and I can't 
use the curled stuff that comes in rolls. WelI - I just had an amazing 
experience flattening out rolled paper. I was having trouble rolling 
out a huge piece and stretching it (thought it has worked before - 
stapling it to my wall and spraying it evenly with water for several 
days) - it kept drying a little buckled. On a friend's suggestion I wet 
the whole sheet while it was on my wall - and carefully rolled it up 
again and placed it in a sealed plastic bag with an soaked wad of paper 
towel. After about 5 hours I unrolled the sheet back on my wall and 
stapled the edges again and left it overnight. The next morning it was 
so stretched (and flat flat flat!!) that it ripped through the staples 
about 1/2 a centimeter all around! Beautiful. Just sayin'.

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