[Gil]

Originally Posted by JohnGay

If you have aluminum glued to cardstock, can you soak the paper to get the complex curves that paper alone won't do? The aluminum should hold the form once the paper becomes pliable.

Depends whether you feel lucky, also the thickness of the aluminum; the thickness of the paper; the paper type; the type of glue used to bond the aluminum to the paper; and whether the paper is treated with a conserving spray. Pucker is the bane of metal plane smiths. Flattened permanent puckers are the mark of a neophyte puckersmith. But even the most naive puckersmith must persevere for the time when flattened puckers with paper are no longer prevalent but persist in compound surfaces rid of their puckerish ways...,

-Gil