Peeling The Paper Off The Back

Anyway, that paper is both a good thing and a bad thing. The bad part is that it adds some extra work before the foil can be used. The good part is that removal of the paper usually leaves some of the adhesive which was holding it on. That adhesive makes that foil useful as a top layer, holding any other foil which is not so endowed onto the ball. When the ball is small, large pieces of foil will stay on by wrapping around it, but as it grows, this "glue coat" of peeled foil becomes more important.

As with other aspects of the ball project, I have developed a method of peeling foil. I started out trying to peel it at the edge, but that only works for a small portion of available foil. Now, I have a trick.