I was looking to get a pressure pot down the road, but the technique I used, which was from another member here, set me on the right path. I think the trick is when mixing, I mixed SSSLLLLOOOOOWWWWWLLYY using a large popsicle stick. I also heated up my mold in the oven at 180 degrees for about 20 minutes. When pouring into the mold, I poured on one side only for each blank and poured as slowly as I could. After I poured the resin, I monitored the few bubbles that did come up and using a thinner popsicle stick I moved the bubbles to the side. There weren't too many of them. Thirty six hours later I unmolded, trimmed, and turned the blank without issue.
For the image, I printed this bill out on my Epson photo printer on regular paper. A member mentioned using Mod Podge as an adhesive. So I went to the store and saw that there are tons of choices of Mod Podge. I bought the Dishwasher Safe Gloss. I pasted the back of the paper and rolled it carefully onto the tube. Once that dried, I coated the outside of the tube as well lightly and let that dry before I mounted it into the mold.
As for the seam, I found a circumference calculator online and measured the diameter of the tube to get my circumference. I input those values into Photoshop to get my canvas size. From there I just printed the image and glued it up. The seam is very hard to find.
