Ed,

I haven’t tried the rise-paper idea myself yet. However over the last year or so several people on the board have commented on running rise-paper through a laser printer with good results. They key is to tape it to a stronger backing paper. There have also been good reports on using this paper under epoxy. Comments have been that the paper turns invisible. I don’t see where using varnish would be significantly different.

What I haven’t seen is anyone trying this with an ink jet printer to get a color image. Issues here would be ink saturating the paper and the fade resistance of the image. I don’t see compatibility problems with the ink and the varnish since one is water base and the other is oil.

I am going to test this on some scap wood. If it works I will use it on the Coho I have under construction. If it work I will post the results.

Don