Originally Posted by Strogey:
I know this has been discussed before but what is Bristol board and please explain the 100 lb. designation. Strogey,
Sorry for the jargon.
Bristol board is a kind of heavy vellum paper/light cardstock used in the printing industry and by artists. It is acid free and very nice to work with for modeling purposes. In this project, I used this:
You can find it at Michaels. It's great.
The "100 lb" thing refers to the density of the paper. The paper industry uses the weight of 500 sheets of some standard size as the standard way to talk about the density of paper. Normal copy paper is something like 20 or 25 lb. Card stock can be maybe 225 lb.
Just think of it as a relative measure of density.
