Adding more color on free lap

General Discussion
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Greetings all

I just finished a resin swirl inlay on the entire top of the board, if I wanted to add just a little more color swirls can I do it on the second layer which is the free lap.Can I pour the color and fill the rest with clear resin and can it be done without getting any color on the bottom of the board when wrapping the rails ?

Thank you

Tom

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Personally I wouldnt bother. If you really dont like the swirl then I would suggest painting over it once the board has been hot coated or do some pen art.

Or doe the second layer with a cut lap and a heavy opaque.

If your hearts set on doing theis then give it a try but its not a great way to do things, you may get a way with it but encase your squegee work is not great and you get some colour bleeding I would recomend doing a cut lap insted of a free lap.

pour the clear resin first all along the rail. If you are using epoxy I would recomend applying it with a bush.

Ifyou planning on doing a gloss coat I would rather add the extra colour at the hot coting stage. tape up the inlay and hot coat the other side and pull the resin round the rails and just over the tape. Pull the tape as the resin gels. then tape up outside of the inlay and hotcoat that area with colour. put it on nice and thin so go heavy on the colour so you want to ain to get away with out sanding that area. shouldn’t be too hard as its the deack area and not the rails.

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If you trying to cover up the previouse swirl then expect rail drippings

but if you want to add to it ,you could (and Im no pro) get your cloth set for the freelap then carefully do your swirl

make sure you pin the cloth tight before starting

you will have to absorb the resin on the deck with rags, towels or whatever before the resin hits the rails

let it gell then pour the clear and finish er up

good luck with that

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pour the clear resin first all along the rail. If you are using epoxy I would recomend applying it with a bush.

God I love typo’s…

Any particular type of bush???

Back to Tom, I’m not too sure you’ll be able to do it without some difficulty, Woody has probably explained it best.

Good luck and use lots of tape and cover the bits you don’t want affected…

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yes you can do it.

would i recomend it…No!

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I suggest doing a second inlay with 4 oz cloth and a swirl. Then come back later with a layer of 4 oz and have that overlap the rails.

I like your idea…I bet you could pull it off if you are careful…What the heck…go for it…I don’t have anything to lose!

Ray

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I think Stingrays suggestion is the one that will give the best results,

Hisky I’ll admit I’m the king of the typo’s, you may have to ask your girlfriend for a hand with that one.

But raely seplilng is not so ipmoratnt as lnog as the frsit and lsat leettrs are in the rgiht palce tehn you can raed it wtih out a porbelm eevn if it’s raely mseesd up. Carzy Huh. The pwoer of the hmuan mnid is aamznig. It’s bceuase the mnid raeds the wrod as a wohle not the indiivudal letetrs.

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Thanks everyone

I’m going to leave it the way it is

Here is a picture of the board hot coated

Sorry about how small the picture is, I can’t get it any bigger "sounds like I’m talking to my wife "

Can anyone give me a tip to get the photos bigger

Tom

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I don’t know why you would want to cover that up it looks cool.

as for the bigger pics, you can up load them onth http://www.flickr.com/. go th the tab on the right to select different sizes, choice medium and it will give you the URL. then when your posting you message here click the small icon on the top tool bab that looks like as picture frame: and copy and paste the address.

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Thanks Woody

Sometimes I’m to hard on myself

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I try to get certain effects and I miss the mark (regularly)

but the come out ok so I leave them alone

the board looks great

leave it alone

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Here is bigger photos, top hotcoated and bottom just lam

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Woody

Here’s a bigger photo, thanks again for the resizing tip

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it takes a lot of resin to do a swirl, dont it?