I’ve looked in the resources to try and find a board made with it, but had no luck. Don’t want the weight of 10 oz, but I like the green effect volan makes.
Volan is volan. It will be greenish whatever weight it is. And show darker wherever you have more than one layer of it.
Hi
Volan is a treatment to the cloth not an actual type of cloth, any weight cloth can have a volan treatment but typically it comes in 8oz and 10oz though you can find 5oz. Volan cloth does not work well with epoxy resin.
If it is the look you are after just add a few drops of green tint to your resin, you’re aiming for a “coke bottle” hue.
why doesnt volan work well with epoxy? does it delam or is it just a pain to work with?
Hard to work with, for 2 reasons.
Due to the hue of the cloth as Balsa says multiple layers will show up darker, like a tint, so it needs a nice clean cut lap, but it is very hard cut, and the timing needs to be spot on. Too soon and you end up with a mess, too late and you need a cutting disc to get through it.
Secondly cut laps on eps are a source of out gassing and the use of a heavy cloth combounds this problem.
It can be done but for a first attempt I would not recomend it. If you really want a volan glassed board better to use PU/PE, if you want to use epoxy but like the look do it with a very thin green tint, kinda cheating yes, volan definately not, but from a distance will look the same and is a whole lot easier.
http://www.swaylocks.com/forum/gforum.cgi?post=230627;search_string=volan%20epoxy;#230627
From my expierience 10 oz shows the volan bettere than light weigh glasses 4oz shows but not as classic…from what I hear volan treatment can vary from batch to bach …manufacturer to manufacturer…like a batch of cookies
So true about the cutlapping and outgassing… found that out the hard way on my first resin swirl attempt with epoxy. And that was with E glass!
I’ve painted a little resin on the cutlap before lamming the deck specifically for that reason. A thin layer, faired out over the lap and squeegeed flat over the deck once it’s cured… It helps a lot.
I love volan color! Lighter “volan” weights have the green color, but I think the thicker the glass the more the light refracts through it (or something), thus more greenish color. When I was at the fiberglass place I was looking at all of the rolls from the top edge (like you were looking down into the roll), you could kind of see the shade and intensity of the green-ness that would result. I ended up using 6 oz (they didnt have 7.5 oz) and I ended up with a pretty nice tint… with the most intense color on the top rails where I have a deck patch and not so much on the middle of the bottom.