Just finished shaping the cleanest log I’ve built yet, and I busted it out in record time (4 hours…LOL). Brought into my garage, but it on it’s rails in the racks, and sat down to enjoy a beer. Put my feet up on the desk and WHAM! Took a little chunk out of my(thin) nose. What would you guys recommend doing to fix it…Cut out a uniform piece and fix like a ding with epoxy, or…??? Thanks in advance.
tenover - I'd just take a few extra swipes with a surform or sanding block and 'retemplate' the nose. What will the difference be... 1/4"?
Yup, about 1/4th…Hmmm…I guess that’s the eaisest thing to do. Ouch. Thanks.
How about a nice wooden nose block?
By the difference between the stringer and the foam it looks unsatisfactorily finished anyways, so its time to re-template and refine. Sounds harsh but a good finished stringer will cast a similar shadow to the foam, and yours doesn’t.
Oh, by the way, I did the same thing this week, and didn’t re-template, just took a block, and screened it in. Guess what, it looked like crap to me after it was glassed, and the whole board looks tight except where I hurried; will anyone notice it, yeah another shaper who looks at it will, and they’ll probably call me out to whoever is listening, and that’s not the kind of attention to detail that I want.
Glass it as is.
fix it after you hot coat it.
maybe you will be able to
back fill it with glass
while lapping the rail
a little fiber in the chip
will do wonders.
‘Aint no beeg ting’
‘don’t sweat the small stuff’
‘dont re-do a zen job.’
american indian rugs have one intentional mistake
to keep from angering the gods about humans
trying to be perfect.
I can only see part of the board but, it looks bitchin’!
…ambrose…
That isn’t a mistake! Those are toe ledges for extreme nose riding. I say template the ding and make a matching set on the other side!
I think he's on to something...make them even deeper and scooped out. Kind of like a batwing nose? Or where the WWII fighter machine guns are mounted on the wings.
re-temping it is quick and easy...........but if you don't want to change the outline you got..............just fill it.................and there's several ways to skin that cat.
sugar and lam resin is my favorite.
herb
If its more of a dent than a cut, break out the ol' heat gun. One of the most instructional tidbits in Jim P's second Master Shaper video, is when he dings his finished shape when his tape measure inadvertently snaps back. Jim just uses it as a teachable moment, taking out his heat gun, raising the dent and then screening it down level again. Otherwise re-template, just be sure to maintain symmetry, and not leave any flat spots. We've all done this before, me more than once.
get a side on it.
yesterday’s done
tomorrow
you will be
setting the fin.
protect the foam
with glass and resin
before the cat
gets to it.
mmmmmmmmmmmm
new board gettin’ waxed up…
zen shape zen glass zen go out.
…ambrose…
bitchin board,
or plastic surgury
on an embryo?
Just re-template and block sand or screen both sides to match. I've done this a few times and just took a block, sandpaper or screen to it without a pencil line and eyeballed both sides. Then put my shapers square on it for an accurate fine tune with the block.
Nah, from the right angle, they almost look like teeth marks. That’s where the big whitey came up and tried to take a chunk out of you.
ok. I’ll go ahead and say it. Spackle.
tomas,
as jim where he got that tip.........lol.
herb
The ol’ reliable heat gun trick doesn’t work very well with US Blanks latest formulations. It tends to do the opposite – it shrinks the foam instead of expanding it. This is kind’a a drag since the last few batches have been a bit spongy and finger dent easily – sorta’ like the Clarks did before Clark shut down.
As far as that ding goes – just reshape it. It’s on the nose – it be a bigger deal if it was on the tail.
Thanks everyone…I ended up reshaping it yesterday and it looks fine, although surely not up to ghettorat’s “shadow standards”…
Hey tenover, Just trying to get you to pay attention to detail, and in the end you’ll feel better about your product. Nobody wants to hear excuses, and the cleaner your work the better reputation you will build. Its all about the finished product, and if it doesn’t look perfect, the fault-finders will rip it to shreds. I hope its your best board ever, and the next one after that, even better.
glassed by tonite sanded by thursday finned on friday
outside set sunday morning!
yyyyyyyyAAAAAAAAA wwwhhhhhhooooooooooooooooooooooo!
…ambrose…
standards are in the making…