Any help is appreciated. I like the look of the transparent tinted longboards (Tyler in particular). My question is this, does he double wrap the rails when he glasses? I ponder this question because I am planning on a nice transparent blue tint, but have done some tests and simply wrapping the rails once for the first layer on the deck, and then taking the second layer midway to therail edge will leave a line visible. Or can you glass the first layer and let that cure, then lay over a nother layer cut to the lap line?? Confused. Thanks
Look up cut laps in the archives, there tons of stuff on it, and guys do them 15 ways to Sunday. My way probably not the right way or best way, but it works well for me: Usually you do the bottom first with your resin tint and a cut lap on the deck rail. you flip the board and do your 2 layers of cloth in clear right to the edge of the break in the rail. If you doing another tint on the top you do the same with the cut except it only goes to the previous cut on the deck, if your looking for a cool rail tint over tint on the bottom just repeat the process for the top / bottom. And then the last clear lam goes over the top to the rail break. Hot coat, sand, gloss, ploish. Shiny. If you’ve never done one before, best to stay away from dark colors and transparents. If your blank has the tiniest blow throughs, scratches, gouges etc. dark colored resin will fill those gaps and look like super dark scars, even little hairs will cause bumps and leave darker spots. it’s not like a clear lamination, the thicker the resin the darker the hue. The worst color I’ve run across so far is transparent Cranberry. Light Yellow and Orange is good. Light Blue is good. No matter what color you use put some white pigment in your color for the first try. Good luck. -Jay