Allright, I spent nearly two weeks perfecting my rail band fade with 1/8” pinlines – stripping the board twice as I learned how to airbrush. I used only quality materials, no water thinning, and several thin layers of clearcoat. It looked perfect – to the point where I would find myself standing in the garage staring at it. I had some success with cut laps on my last board, except a couple small scrapes where the knife hit the foam… but I figured the pinline would cover this up. Well instead I gouged the crap out of it. I had to do some touchup work with a paintbrush, which means I the glass was dry by the time I put the deck layer on. Now I have a crappy looking pinline, dryspots or some discoloration over my fade and dried resin on the foam. What did I do wrong? I’ve read several threads in the archives about cutting over your pinlines… Though all was not lost… I finally had my first clean lapjob. Nice and smooth I tucked it under with my thumb – center to nose, center to tail. No dangling strings, no dryspots, no sags, no wrinkles…. Dam, that felt good. Thanks,
perhaps you should have free lapped. then, if you wanted pins, you coulda painted them on your sanded hot-coat>>> Allright, I spent nearly two weeks perfecting my rail band fade with 1/8” > pinlines – stripping the board twice as I learned how to airbrush. I used > only quality materials, no water thinning, and several thin layers of > clearcoat. It looked perfect – to the point where I would find myself > standing in the garage staring at it. I had some success with cut laps on > my last board, except a couple small scrapes where the knife hit the foam… > but I figured the pinline would cover this up. Well instead I gouged the > crap out of it. I had to do some touchup work with a paintbrush, which > means I the glass was dry by the time I put the deck layer on. Now I have > a crappy looking pinline, dryspots or some discoloration over my fade and > dried resin on the foam. What did I do wrong? I’ve read several threads in > the archives about cutting over your pinlines…>>> Though all was not lost… I finally had my first clean lapjob. Nice and > smooth I tucked it under with my thumb – center to nose, center to tail. > No dangling strings, no dryspots, no sags, no wrinkles…. Dam, that felt > good.>>> Thanks,
perhaps you should have free lapped. then, if you wanted pins, you coulda > painted them on your sanded hot-coat Ok… so think I could try doing some touchup to my pins on the sanded hotcoat (with an airbrush)? Or would it look obvious that the paint is on two different layers?