Don't Try This at Home: Rice Paper Problem

General Discussion
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I tried something, and I want to pass it along that it didn’t work. Maybe I’ll save someone a headache or two…or three.

My project was to get some footprints on rice paper, which I did. Using water based acrylic paint. The paint kind of warped the paper, so I ironed them with a steam iron which worked pretty good, although they were still not completely flat. Then my idea was to laminate them on the bottom of the board. I already did one 6 oz laminate that came out great. After it set up I layed the rice paper footprints down and layed a layer of 4 oz fiberglass over them, poured out the resin, then squeeged.

For the life of me I could not get those laminates flat. No matter how much I squeeged, they kept popping. The end result was a bumpy bottom. Next step: sand it all off, down to the original 6 oz and forget it for this time.

I seem to have to learn this lesson over and over: COLOR ON THE FOAM, unless I want a headache or two…or three.

But today is Thanksgiving for all us Yanks. I’m thankful that I have two good arms and two good legs, and the health to go surfing, and to build surfboards. My list of blessings from my Father in Heaven is very long. Thanks Dad! And Happy Thanksgiving everybody! Doug

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if it were me, I’d take a digital photo of the footprints (once you went to the trouble of making them)… then print it out and lam as usual.

Happy Thanksgiving, all!

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I did 5 boards for Mandalay Bay’s wave pool area, they had full length deck laminates ($340.00 worth). The second resin hit them, they clawed up like a prune, my intent was to apply them to the board and them lam over later. It was the scamble to grab 4oz. to get over them before the batch started to go, I was shitting down my leg at this point that I was going to be into art for $700.00 before it was over. In the end, the guy who fielded the project to me, burned me for 3 grand. Bad vibes from the begining, another semester in the school of hard knocks

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Howzit Doug, I did a board a couple years back that had foot prints that walked to the nose. I had the girl put the paint on her feet and step on regular paper, then I scanned the paper and printed on rice paper. Had no problems what so ever and the girl loved her board which I believe she took back to Newport Beach. Aloha,Kokua
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Thanks for the input guys. This was one of those time consuming, but valuable lessons. Next time I will either put the footprints directly on the foam, or scan them on rice paper with a printer. Doug

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While in Fla., I had Kurt and Jim Wilson, working and riding for me. We went to a pro event in Long Island, NY and had Pat Mulhern with us, he grabbed the keys to my rental car, for some reason, and backed over Kurts board on the way. The next board I built for Kurt, his brother coated a car tire with acrylic paint and rolled it along the foam to rub Pat’s nose in every time we saw him at a contest