Cut laps & swallow tails

General Discussion
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Anyone have any tips for clean cut laps on a deep swallow? I’ve searched the archives unsuccessfully.

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You will have to cut another small piece of glass to fill the “buttcrack” portion.Just cut your glass and do the fold unders and it will become obvious.If you are doing a tint save some of the colored resin for add ons.Sometimes you have to retape the tail area and reglass the patches…depends on the shape and your ability.No worry…it will all be fine in the end.

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Hi All,

I’m resurrecting this thread because it’s still not clear to me how one does a tint job on a swallow tail. Obviously, this needs to be a cut lap, but can somebody do a run down on this? From the finished boards I’ve seen, it appears as though when the bottom is laminated, the lap goes all the way down the rail, but is not wrapped over on the inside of the swallow… Is it cut just to the edge? So then I suppose the deck lamination (assume clear deck) wraps around the inside of the swallow and that’s strong enough?

Here’s how I envision the process:

  1. Tape along deck rail as for a regular cut lap, but instead of following the rail line around and up into the swallow crack, you just take it straight down off the tail.

  2. Cut your cloth, making “v” notches for the tail points, then a straight cut parallel to the stringer so the glass can hang down over the edge.

  3. (here’s where I’m confused) What do you do with the cloth that hangs down inside the swallow crack? If I were free-lapping, I’d just wrap those up onto the deck, but with a tint, I don’t see a way to create a clean cut lap that would follow the “v” in the crack on the deck side… So instead, you just let the cloth hang in the crack, then trim with a blade leaving essentially, a clear rail on the inside of the crack on the deck side??

Any insight would be most appreciated.

Thanks,

JBL