I just lammed the base of my current project with a kind of dark greenish blue kind of color, the color looks really nice. However there are a couple spots where there were slight flaws in the foam and the tint is a little darker in these areas, I knew this would happen, but man what a nice color. I was wondering if I could make the color a little more even by brushing on some more tinted lam resin, weight is not an issue because it’s a big ol tank for the 6" days down at the local beachie (and boy do I need it for the tiny swell we’ve had for the last week). Any help or tips you guys could provide would be greatly appreciated.
What I would do: do your hot-coat with clear resin. Sand. Fine-sand. When you reach the point where you would normally do a gloss finish, brush a thin coat of heavily opacified tinted lam resin, then gloss over that. Heavily opacified means you will likely have to add some sort of thickening agent such as silica. My two (Euro) cents.
But I suspect that guys like Kokua for instance would be of much more help on this one…
Howzit balsa, Good idea but the opaque would also take away the tint look and that will work if the opaque look is OK with the person… Adding more tint to the hot coat or gloss will just darken the color even more and make the dark spots darker. Basically it comes down to only using tints on shaped blanks with no flaws. When people want a tint job and the blank has flaws I tell the person exactly what to expect and usually they opt for a paint job instead.Aloha,Kokua
Would it possibly help spots that don’t appear to be flaws in the blank, but rather places that look like not enough resin got pulled back out of the lam in that spot?
Yellow tint is the only exception to kokua’s “tint rule”.Yellow tint may even hide minor flaws…but the rule of thumb is: w/ tints that is :,“a flawless finished shaped blank,screened/sanded very fine”.Otherwise you get a patchy/scratchy/dippy job.