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• December 9th, 2007

If you are considering Venetian Plaster as a business or if you need some practice for your own project, you should know how to make sample boards. You can make sample boards on virtually anything as long as it’s primed and not flexible. Some other plasters out there are quite flexible when attached on bendable substrates, like paper. That is usually because they are synthetic or have great amount of acrylics.

The easiest thing to make sample boards out is ¼ inch drywall. You can usually only get this in drywall supply stores. Home Depot and alike usually carry only ½ or 5/8 inch, which is still perfectly usable, but it gets very heavy very fast if your are making a presentation with many possibilities. It’s easy to cut drywall, and if you don’t know how, someone at the store will help you. The problem with drywall is that it’s not very durable. The corners tend to chip off if dropped and there is raw gypsum coming off the edges, making a messy floor. Sheets come in 4×8 feet, which means that you can get 8 2×2 feet sample boards. The best size by the way is 2×2 feet. Anything smaller is sometimes very difficult to tell what it’s going to look like and also it’s a good practice size.

The other option for samples is MDF board which is available at the major home improvement stores. These are sheets sold in large sizes, too. MDF is made of wood, so you have use a saw tool to cut it. The stores can do that for you. It’s a little more expensive, but worth it, as these boards are more durable and cleaner.

All sample boards should be primed with any good latex primer from any good paint store. You can remedy the messy drywall edges by priming the edges. Lastly, if the edges of the board are messy, you can always frame them in a cheap raw wood frame (which you can wax, stain, etc) or you can use a neutral or black tape to wrap the edges.

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