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make your own cheap watercolor block

Step 5Apply padding compound

apply padding compound
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The padding compound has a consistency like Elmer's glue.

After 20 years, it's still in perfect usable condition, however I had to use a strap wrench to get the lid off.

I stirred it up with a scrap of wood, but I'm not sure I needed to. It didn't seem to have separated or settled at all.

Using a cheap brush, apply the padding padding compound all around the 4 edges of the pad.

You don't need to make it thick really, just enough to touch all the edges of the pages.

I like to leave a few open spaces for sliding the edge of a knife in in case the paper won't come free.

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