: Just curious - Could the bubble be sucked out by inserting the needle on a
: dry and empty syringe, then pulling the bubble out?

: - John
hi john
not just sucked out: on the inside of the bubble, both the wood surface and the now cured glass/resin surface both need to be wetted out in order to achieve anything like transparency. if the bubble is not cured the resin will be just pulled out of the cloth in one tiny area to allow in air.

for raised bubbles if you pierced the o/s of a now hard shell bubble to pull out the air, directly afterward that hole would have to be sealed without any tiny amt of air getting in. there could be a remote possibility that for a large raised bubble one could inject from the back, and then from the other back outlet hole try to suck the bubble down.

only abt 1/4 of my bubbles were raised like this and all were too small and numerous to even consider such a procedure. most were across panel joint depressions i should have prepared better, some very thin spread out ones in the field of the panels(lousy attention or application), and the others just bridging across sharp inside corners and just on the outside of outside corners (dammit, the most visible). I was using 3oz satin to try to achieve the turns, but it still was stiffer than i had hoped for my application.