Hey, I'm planning on making my third board and I'm looking to do a single colour resin tint.
I know that is the glass is over lapping will get darker shades etc but how do you get a consistent tint from top to bottom If you do a tint on both sides of the board.
Secondly, if you are planing on just doing one tint, say on the bottom of the board, do you free lap as normal on the top lam?
I just came across a thread which says you need to tape off the top lam (when doing a single bottom Lam tint) but on searching cut lap techniques, I can't seem to find anything...
Anyone got advice or some different techniques... Thanks in advance.
are you asking how to do a cut lap in general? when I do a resin tint, i generally measure the amount I use on one side and apply that to the other, to get the same color result. Are you talking about doing two different tints, one on top, and one on bottom? if so, i generally use a cut lap on both sides to keep my laps clean, and will normally do a pin-line where the colors meet.
IF you are doing both sides the same tint mix enough resin to glass both sides, then split into two buckets that way you get the exact shade of tint on bothe sides. If you don’t want the dark rails. Do a tinted bottom lam then tap off the cut lap line and rails and tint the deck with one layer of cloth this way you don’t overlap aywhere with tint. after that do you last layer of glass in clear and wrap the rails as usual. you have a even tint with no change in color. that was for double on top and single on bottom.
first off you don't mix enough resin to do the whole board and split it, the top lam will be darker every time. after laming the bottom you have a scrap piece of foam then you take the same weight cloth you will lam the top with and do tests till you get the color richness you want to match the bottom . that is the proper way to match color on lams
Why would the top lam be darker? BC the resin had to sit to long? Just wondering bc it worked out good for me but I only did one that the top was the same as bottom so I might of just got lucky. Most of my lams are just white pointy things.
I would just freelap the clear lam whether it's lapping bottom color or reverse lam.
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IF you are doing both sides the same tint mix enough resin to glass both sides, then split into two buckets that way you get the exact shade of tint on bothe sides. If you don't want the dark rails. Do a tinted bottom lam then tap off the cut lap line and rails and tint the deck with one layer of cloth this way you don't overlap aywhere with tint. after that do you last layer of glass in clear and wrap the rails as usual. you have a even tint with no change in color. that was for double on top and single on bottom.
I hope that was clear.
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Thats pretty much what I wanted to know.... cheers!!