: You are right Frank, I think I just might nail it this time. I
: seriously doubt I will ever use Rustoleum again...auto paint is
: simply gorgeous on a deck. The biggest challenges for this kind
: of deck art is to get the deck super smooth, take time to tape
: off the graphic, and make certain those tapes are down good.
: This is the first time I had no bleeding while using electrical
: tape. I must have got the surface of the deck super smooth,
: something I worked hard at. The beauty of using electrical tape
: to create the graphics is that it bends around corners well due
: to its flexibility and it carves up nicely without lifting if
: you cut a graphic out of a layer of it. The rest of the art work
: is gonna take me a lot of time, I have to create a maple leaf
: stencil then lay out 12 of these leaves along the deck, epoxy
: and sprinkle them with the metal flake. I have already figured
: out the fastest method to git 'er done so all I need to do now
: is git 'er done.

: Robert N Pruden

I've always used 3M's fine line tape and their flexible blue tape for corners. Doesn't leave goo on the surface if it's left on for a period of time like electrical tape is prone to do and paint never bleeds under it.

Bill H.