//Sierra 'll update this tutorial with photos in the nearest future.
The most important of these, micro meters are bullshit! They give you an uneven lay across the sheet, especially when laying with high ethanol solution because one side of the sheet is evaporating and drawing liquid from the side that you are continuing to add drops to. Thus, the side you start laying on has higher dosage tabs. We have actually lab tested this and its come up as 10-15% difference from one side of the sheet to the other, depending on how quickly you can add your drops and how much ethanol you are using.
I hate those TEKs. And I am sure that TT have written them to fuck over potential competition. Maybe I am a conspiracy theorist, but anyone laying bulk one tab at a time has some seriously flawed logic, and I cannot imagine them laying in those quantities using that method.
Secondly, high ethanol content is bad. Firstly, LSD really does not want to dissolve in ethanol, this is why you need to have some % of H2O in your solution. And more importantly, solution evaporating quickly from your pages is going to produce a less even lay than them naturally drying slowly at room temperature. The only advantage to using high ethanol solution is that you will get your pages to dry faster. I dont know about you, but laying is a sacred art to me, and taking time and doing it with love and care is very important.
I still do it the old-school way. High quality distilled vodka. 40V. Dip the pages to full saturation, and leave them to dry slowly, laid flat on a drying rack. Leave them overnight, and when you come back they will be done.
The pages will curl because of the high H2O content, so, we stack them up, and vacuum pack them all, press this under something heavy overnight, and when you come to open the pack again, your blotter will be crisp and perfect.
Rather than rant further I will now just layout the TEK:
You will need:
1: 0.001g scales
2: Small spatula/spoon
3: 60cc Syringe
4: Teflon tray with a flat base larger than one page of your blotter art (baking tray is ideal)
5: 10 x Mesh drying racks (cake cooking racks are ideal)
6: 2 x 250ml beaker or glass (for your solution)
7: Magnetic Stirrer
8: 10 x page blotter art (20x25 tab, or 30x30 tab)
9: 10 x Pair nitrile gloves
10: Disposable paper towels
11: Ethanol:H2O solvent (triple distilled vodka will suffice)
12: LSD Crystal
In this example, we will be using Grey Goose vodka as our solvent, with an Ethanol:H2O ratio of 4:6. People do usually go for a higher ethanol:H2O ratio. This is mainly to speed up the drying process, since ethanol evaporates a lot faster than H2O. Firstly, if you do want to go with a higher ratio, just buy the 151 proof Ever-clear (75.5V) as opposed to buying the 95V variety and then trying to dilute it with vodka. This way you have a 3:1 ethanol:H2O ratio, and you know that this will always be the exact same ratio. If you are mixing Ever-clear and Grey Goose, you will never get the ratio the same each time, and this affects the maximum saturation of your sheets, since the blotter paper will hold vastly different amounts of ethanol versus H2O. My personal choice is to simply stick with the 6:4 ratio with Grey Goose. Firstly, LSD has a vastly greater solubility in H2O versus Ethanol, so our precious crystal is going to dissolve much more quickly and easily in a 6:4 solution. Secondly, while working with the solution, a certain amount of alcohol will inevitably be evaporating, and thus making the concentration of LSD higher. This means that the last page that you lay will always be dosed higher than the first. The higher the alcohol content, the quicker the evaporation, and the more difference in dosage between pages. And lastly, for obvious reasons, a 6:4 ratio will dry slower, and more evenly. Now, I am not going to say that there is a monumental difference between using a 6:4 versus 3:1 or even 4:1 when you are laying a few pages. But when you are laying 50 - 100 as we do, there is a longer amount of time for the solution to evaporate, and a 4:1 ratio solution will evaporate a considerable amount over the hours that this process will take to complete. Before we being laying, we are going to need to have a large work surface where we can lay out our drying racks and our Teflon tray, and also have space to weigh crystal and measure our solvent. Nitrile gloves should be worn at all times, and all surfaces should be wiped down with water and dried with disposable towels regularly to maintain a safe work environment. All waste should be placed in a designated receptacle, double bagged, and disposed of when work is complete. For our blotter art we will be using 20x25 tab pages, of 220gsm blotter paper, and laying blotter at 100ug per tab. The first thing we are going to need to do is figure out the maximum saturation point of one page of blotter. To do this we are going to need to sacrifice some pages of our artwork, but it is vital that we know this information, so you should make sure you have extra. If you have 500 pages at your disposal, I would go with 20 as it will increase the accuracy of the measurement significantly. If you think about the cost of an un-laid page versus the cost of a laid page, losing a few un-laid to make sure your laid pages are as near to perfect as possible makes obvious sense. We are going to pour some of our solvent (vodka) into one of the beakers, then use the syringe to measure out 200cc into our Teflon tray. We are then going to dip each of our 10 pages of 25x20 tab blotter into the solvent, leaving each one submerged until the page is completely saturated and laying them out flat on our racks to dry. The process should be to dip the page, wait a minute for it to saturate, then lift the page out of the solution, wait until it stops dripping, then turn the page 180 degrees and hold for a few moments, and then lay the page flat on the drying rack. When placing the artwork in the tray, put it white side up, so that you can see when the solvent has saturated the page completely. You should place it into the tray, and gently tip the tray from side to side so that the page is submerged in the solvent. You are going to be wearing nitrile gloves, so you can use your fingers to gently move the page around until you can see that it is ready to be taken out. It may initially take a minute or so for the page to absorb the maximum about of liquid, so work slowly and methodically. Once all of the pages have been dipped, we are going to take our syringe and measure how much of the solvent is left in the Teflon tray. In this example, lets say there is 80cc of vodka left in the tray. Now some simple mathematics:
200cc - 80cc = 120cc
120cc / 10 pages = 12cc per page
So, now we know that the maximum saturation of each of our pages is 12cc. So, if we want to lay 20 pages, we do 12cc x 20 pages = 240cc of solvent, 7 pages = 7x12cc = 84cc, and so on and so forth. In this example however, we are going to be laying 10 pages, so we will be using 120cc of solvent to create our solution. Obviously, the more test pages that we dip, the more accurate the result of our maximum saturation per page calculation is going to be, so if you can afford to, dip 20 or 30 sheets. These are obviously then going to have to be discarded and fresh sheets used for the actual lays. Next we want to find out how much crystal we need to use to achieve 100ug per blotter. This is some even more simple mathematics:
1 tab = 100ug = 0.0001g
1 page = 20x25 tabs = 500 tabs
0.0001g x 500 tabs = 0.05g per page
0.05g x 10 pages = 0.5g
Now that everything is ready, we can create the solution with which we are going to lay our 10 pages of 500 x 100ug blotter. We are going to use our small spatula/spoon and our mg scales to weigh up 0.5g of LSD crystal and carefully deposit it into the bottom of one of our beakers. We are then going to fill the other beaker with our solvent (vodka) and use our syringe to measure out 120cc into the beaker containing our 0.5g of LSD crystal. Finally we are going to place our beaker on the magnetic stirrer and let it gently vortex the liquid until all the crystal has dissolved into the solution. This may take 15 minutes or so to achieve, so be patient. Once all our crystal has dissolved, we can pour the 120ml of solution into our Teflon tray, and as before, dip each of our pages in the solution until it is completely saturated, laying them out on the racks to dry. For the final bit of solution, it will most likely be necessary to tear the final sheet into smaller squares, tip the laying trey up onto one side, and soak each 5x5 square in the solution one by one to make sure that each is fully saturated. Alternatively, we could use a syringe to measure out 12cc of solution at a time, and apply it to the pages individually as they sit on the drying rack. However, my personal opinion is that to obtain maximum saturation evenly over the sheet, dipping is more effective, even if we end up having to dispose of part, or all, of the final sheet due to the difficulty of absorbing the last bit of solution from our laying tray. Some experimentation here without any crystal in the solution will help you find your preferred method. We will now leave our pages on the racks until they are absolutely bone dry. We can tell when they are dried properly because the pages will curl. To speed up the drying process we could use a fan or a hairdryer on the cold setting, but personally I prefer to let them dry naturally as it ensures that there will be the most even distribution of crystal possible. Natural drying will take around 8-12 hours at normal room temperature. We can then stack the pages up, and vacuum pack them for a day or so until they go completely flat again. Now that the pages are laid, all that is left is to clean up all the equipment with a lot of water, drying with disposable paper towels as you go, and then disposing of any waste in a safe manner. It is not a good idea to use cleaning products on your laying equipment as any detergent residue that might still be present next time you lay blotter will destroy your LSD crystal. Even any chlorine left over from letting your equipment dry naturally will degrade your LSD tabs if it gets into the solution, which is why we must dry everything off with the disposable paper towels. Once your tabs are completely dry, the best way to store them is in a vacuum sealed bag, and in a cool dark place. Air will cause the crystal to degrade, UV radiation from sunlight will also do the same, and heat will speed up this process, so it is important to eliminate these threats to your precious blotter.
The most important of these, micro meters are bullshit! They give you an uneven lay across the sheet, especially when laying with high ethanol solution because one side of the sheet is evaporating and drawing liquid from the side that you are continuing to add drops to. Thus, the side you start laying on has higher dosage tabs. We have actually lab tested this and its come up as 10-15% difference from one side of the sheet to the other, depending on how quickly you can add your drops and how much ethanol you are using.
I hate those TEKs. And I am sure that TT have written them to fuck over potential competition. Maybe I am a conspiracy theorist, but anyone laying bulk one tab at a time has some seriously flawed logic, and I cannot imagine them laying in those quantities using that method.
Secondly, high ethanol content is bad. Firstly, LSD really does not want to dissolve in ethanol, this is why you need to have some % of H2O in your solution. And more importantly, solution evaporating quickly from your pages is going to produce a less even lay than them naturally drying slowly at room temperature. The only advantage to using high ethanol solution is that you will get your pages to dry faster. I dont know about you, but laying is a sacred art to me, and taking time and doing it with love and care is very important.
I still do it the old-school way. High quality distilled vodka. 40V. Dip the pages to full saturation, and leave them to dry slowly, laid flat on a drying rack. Leave them overnight, and when you come back they will be done.
The pages will curl because of the high H2O content, so, we stack them up, and vacuum pack them all, press this under something heavy overnight, and when you come to open the pack again, your blotter will be crisp and perfect.
Rather than rant further I will now just layout the TEK:
You will need:
1: 0.001g scales
2: Small spatula/spoon
3: 60cc Syringe
4: Teflon tray with a flat base larger than one page of your blotter art (baking tray is ideal)
5: 10 x Mesh drying racks (cake cooking racks are ideal)
6: 2 x 250ml beaker or glass (for your solution)
7: Magnetic Stirrer
8: 10 x page blotter art (20x25 tab, or 30x30 tab)
9: 10 x Pair nitrile gloves
10: Disposable paper towels
11: Ethanol:H2O solvent (triple distilled vodka will suffice)
12: LSD Crystal
In this example, we will be using Grey Goose vodka as our solvent, with an Ethanol:H2O ratio of 4:6. People do usually go for a higher ethanol:H2O ratio. This is mainly to speed up the drying process, since ethanol evaporates a lot faster than H2O. Firstly, if you do want to go with a higher ratio, just buy the 151 proof Ever-clear (75.5V) as opposed to buying the 95V variety and then trying to dilute it with vodka. This way you have a 3:1 ethanol:H2O ratio, and you know that this will always be the exact same ratio. If you are mixing Ever-clear and Grey Goose, you will never get the ratio the same each time, and this affects the maximum saturation of your sheets, since the blotter paper will hold vastly different amounts of ethanol versus H2O. My personal choice is to simply stick with the 6:4 ratio with Grey Goose. Firstly, LSD has a vastly greater solubility in H2O versus Ethanol, so our precious crystal is going to dissolve much more quickly and easily in a 6:4 solution. Secondly, while working with the solution, a certain amount of alcohol will inevitably be evaporating, and thus making the concentration of LSD higher. This means that the last page that you lay will always be dosed higher than the first. The higher the alcohol content, the quicker the evaporation, and the more difference in dosage between pages. And lastly, for obvious reasons, a 6:4 ratio will dry slower, and more evenly. Now, I am not going to say that there is a monumental difference between using a 6:4 versus 3:1 or even 4:1 when you are laying a few pages. But when you are laying 50 - 100 as we do, there is a longer amount of time for the solution to evaporate, and a 4:1 ratio solution will evaporate a considerable amount over the hours that this process will take to complete. Before we being laying, we are going to need to have a large work surface where we can lay out our drying racks and our Teflon tray, and also have space to weigh crystal and measure our solvent. Nitrile gloves should be worn at all times, and all surfaces should be wiped down with water and dried with disposable towels regularly to maintain a safe work environment. All waste should be placed in a designated receptacle, double bagged, and disposed of when work is complete. For our blotter art we will be using 20x25 tab pages, of 220gsm blotter paper, and laying blotter at 100ug per tab. The first thing we are going to need to do is figure out the maximum saturation point of one page of blotter. To do this we are going to need to sacrifice some pages of our artwork, but it is vital that we know this information, so you should make sure you have extra. If you have 500 pages at your disposal, I would go with 20 as it will increase the accuracy of the measurement significantly. If you think about the cost of an un-laid page versus the cost of a laid page, losing a few un-laid to make sure your laid pages are as near to perfect as possible makes obvious sense. We are going to pour some of our solvent (vodka) into one of the beakers, then use the syringe to measure out 200cc into our Teflon tray. We are then going to dip each of our 10 pages of 25x20 tab blotter into the solvent, leaving each one submerged until the page is completely saturated and laying them out flat on our racks to dry. The process should be to dip the page, wait a minute for it to saturate, then lift the page out of the solution, wait until it stops dripping, then turn the page 180 degrees and hold for a few moments, and then lay the page flat on the drying rack. When placing the artwork in the tray, put it white side up, so that you can see when the solvent has saturated the page completely. You should place it into the tray, and gently tip the tray from side to side so that the page is submerged in the solvent. You are going to be wearing nitrile gloves, so you can use your fingers to gently move the page around until you can see that it is ready to be taken out. It may initially take a minute or so for the page to absorb the maximum about of liquid, so work slowly and methodically. Once all of the pages have been dipped, we are going to take our syringe and measure how much of the solvent is left in the Teflon tray. In this example, lets say there is 80cc of vodka left in the tray. Now some simple mathematics:
200cc - 80cc = 120cc
120cc / 10 pages = 12cc per page
So, now we know that the maximum saturation of each of our pages is 12cc. So, if we want to lay 20 pages, we do 12cc x 20 pages = 240cc of solvent, 7 pages = 7x12cc = 84cc, and so on and so forth. In this example however, we are going to be laying 10 pages, so we will be using 120cc of solvent to create our solution. Obviously, the more test pages that we dip, the more accurate the result of our maximum saturation per page calculation is going to be, so if you can afford to, dip 20 or 30 sheets. These are obviously then going to have to be discarded and fresh sheets used for the actual lays. Next we want to find out how much crystal we need to use to achieve 100ug per blotter. This is some even more simple mathematics:
1 tab = 100ug = 0.0001g
1 page = 20x25 tabs = 500 tabs
0.0001g x 500 tabs = 0.05g per page
0.05g x 10 pages = 0.5g
Now that everything is ready, we can create the solution with which we are going to lay our 10 pages of 500 x 100ug blotter. We are going to use our small spatula/spoon and our mg scales to weigh up 0.5g of LSD crystal and carefully deposit it into the bottom of one of our beakers. We are then going to fill the other beaker with our solvent (vodka) and use our syringe to measure out 120cc into the beaker containing our 0.5g of LSD crystal. Finally we are going to place our beaker on the magnetic stirrer and let it gently vortex the liquid until all the crystal has dissolved into the solution. This may take 15 minutes or so to achieve, so be patient. Once all our crystal has dissolved, we can pour the 120ml of solution into our Teflon tray, and as before, dip each of our pages in the solution until it is completely saturated, laying them out on the racks to dry. For the final bit of solution, it will most likely be necessary to tear the final sheet into smaller squares, tip the laying trey up onto one side, and soak each 5x5 square in the solution one by one to make sure that each is fully saturated. Alternatively, we could use a syringe to measure out 12cc of solution at a time, and apply it to the pages individually as they sit on the drying rack. However, my personal opinion is that to obtain maximum saturation evenly over the sheet, dipping is more effective, even if we end up having to dispose of part, or all, of the final sheet due to the difficulty of absorbing the last bit of solution from our laying tray. Some experimentation here without any crystal in the solution will help you find your preferred method. We will now leave our pages on the racks until they are absolutely bone dry. We can tell when they are dried properly because the pages will curl. To speed up the drying process we could use a fan or a hairdryer on the cold setting, but personally I prefer to let them dry naturally as it ensures that there will be the most even distribution of crystal possible. Natural drying will take around 8-12 hours at normal room temperature. We can then stack the pages up, and vacuum pack them for a day or so until they go completely flat again. Now that the pages are laid, all that is left is to clean up all the equipment with a lot of water, drying with disposable paper towels as you go, and then disposing of any waste in a safe manner. It is not a good idea to use cleaning products on your laying equipment as any detergent residue that might still be present next time you lay blotter will destroy your LSD crystal. Even any chlorine left over from letting your equipment dry naturally will degrade your LSD tabs if it gets into the solution, which is why we must dry everything off with the disposable paper towels. Once your tabs are completely dry, the best way to store them is in a vacuum sealed bag, and in a cool dark place. Air will cause the crystal to degrade, UV radiation from sunlight will also do the same, and heat will speed up this process, so it is important to eliminate these threats to your precious blotter.
