So…I made a sweet board. But I am still in my experimental phase of my coloring.
I use EPS epoxy…so waterfalling and wasting tons of resin isn’t really possible.
After this mistake…I may go back to white. Watch out for red.
I made a penis board. (so fleshy, so real) with…wait for it. A seal/sea lion colored bottom.
looking forward to being laughed at on the beach…and eaten in the water.
That ridge…a big 6oz patch crossing over to 4oz. IDK…the mistakes just kept coming.
The problem is that the shape looks good. I’m going to ride it. DOH! I just said that.
Here is my bad color story: I shaped and glassed the board below. It came out great and I was very happy with it. Epoxy over a poly blank. Resin tint on the bottom with black and white pin lines. Really nailed it. Surfed it that spring and it rode great but always strait to the beach and strait home.
June rolls around and we do our first all day family beach day. I surf a while and come in. I lay my board down and throw my wet rash guard on top and drap the leash across the board. An hour later I decide to paddle back out. When I lift up the rash guard and leash I was shocked to see that the entre bottom of the board had gone from a deep red to a splotchy orange. What’s worse is that there was a perfect imprint left from the leash and rash guard where it had not changed. Made me sick. Last epoxy board I ever made.
I have a bunch of bad color jobs. Working on one right now. My excuse is colorblindness. My funnyist was a result of one bad decision after another. EPS foam and I ran out of spackle. Decided to use the pink stuff that turns white when dry only it’s not the same shade as the light weight stuff. So, I painted the board blue with a brush. It looked like shit. So, I l laminated with with a shit load of red tint. The board turned out to be a deep pink, magenta, something. Splotchy. Very pretty color. Not my thing, tho. I gave the board to my daughter’s friend who wanted to try surfing. I think he took it to LA. I hope.
I recommend NOT cutting your deck patch straight across on your penis board to prevent snaps in that spot. Cut a curve, angle, or leave it uncircumsized. Mike
Surprisingly people think it’s a little funny…but they like it too.
I’m less worried about it now. Not that I was overly concerned. I’ll ride a pink board.
And the bottom was done with high quality watercolors over resin microbaloon seal. It started out as a bright blocked out paint job…and for some reason I didn’t like it and started pushing more and more red into it and smearing it around…then I was worried it would never dry out…so I got some paper towls and started pulling color off. and it became very smeared. I was pissed but whatever…I wasn’t going to chuck it. The shape looked good. Subtle V bottom blending to double through the fins to flat in the last four inches or so. 6’9" x 20.625 x 2.75 4" entry 1.625 at 1 foot 0 two inches forward of center tail kick at 2 3/8"
I pumped some more red into the hot coat. It’s an even brighter deeper pink now. that helped and it knocked down the contrast on that ridge line from the patch.
Funny how something I deemed a mistake…turned out that a fair number of people think is cool.
Cheers Man.
Are you the same Ambrose that makes the quadzilla? And the sputnik?
That’s a good looking board. Dig the diamond tail. Nice pin work too. I wish I had the patience for that. I wonder what happened in the color to make it fade?
Don’t give up on epoxy. A few years ago I switched from poly to eps. I can’t go back. The polys just feel a little dead to me now. Still good…but They don’t have that lively pop that eps and epoxy have. Plus Epoxy is so strong. I never even check my board when I accidently bang it on the car or a door frame. I just assume it’s fine. And it always is.
Also the waste is so little. and the lack of heavy fumes.
Not to be confused with with surftech or boardworks. Those…I don’t like at all.
I didn’t mean to do the patch initially. I pulled on the roll of 6oz and all I had left was about 5 ft 7 left on it. Not enough for a short board and too much to throw away. I said “whatever” “I’ll 6/4 most of the deck and 4/4 the nose because I wont really be standing up there too often anyway.” “And maybe the nose will be a touch lighter this way.”
if the red wasn’t infused in the resin you wouldn’t even see the ridge after sand and polish. It would blend in. But the red…now pink is in there. And that’s how you get a penis board folks.
but I will curve my next patch. good advice.
Thanks
also…have you tried a resin/microballon seal? It’s the only way to fly IMHO. no delams, no micro crack water probs. glass bonds to it perfectly. stronger boards overall, only slightly heavier if you pull the seal down nice and tight to the foam. If you are looking for super High performance team rider boards…probably not the ticket. But you can still get it really light with a little practice. (It does not like color though…hard to paint like spackle)
That’s funny. I bet when they gave it to him they couldn’t stop laughing. I wonder if the glasser was pissed at the amount of work he did to then see that and know it was something Kelly would prefer not to ride. I can almost see Kelly’s sheepish grin and then, “no more penis boards guys” “Quick won’t like it” Dane would ride that thing in a contest.
