Howzit Fred, I know what the problem is now, when you print in black. When the printer program comes up on the screen hit the advanced button and click the only black box. If you don’t do this your printer combines all it’s colors to make black and that’s where the yellow is coming from. If you look closely at the printed image you’ll see some not black colors around the edges, this also wastes a lot of ink.
I have Photoshop and Jasc paint shop pro 8 which are both great programs for editing images, I just like the ease of picture it express for the printing stage. Aloha, Kokua
Kokua: In that case I’m glad I got Dick to shape my last board in front of my eyes. He has a shaping bay in his house. Again as far as any boards sold here on the mainland, they are machine shaped. Dick has always had his own deal going on what he does out of Hawaii. Again, I think that he does all the balsa boards personally, but I could be wrong. I do know this: when he shaped my board he only measyured it once to check the thickness and it was right on. I also know that there are a lot of Pros out there riding Brewer shapes with someone else’s logo on them, especially the guns and tow boards.
Wow, almost forgot I started this thread by the time I finished reading it…
Barium chromate! Man, that is the good stuff!
Bagman, the tint is from foam-ez, bought a long time ago by a friend of mine. It did separate but I shook hell out of it. Might not have been enough, dunno.
Resinhead, yeah, the lam was great tight, solid, yellow.
rKelly, The laminate didn’t fade it’s a couple of shades of gray. I did stick it down with the tinted resin on the foam (standard way) so I guess the UV is having a harder time bleaching it under the paper.
Good thing it’s my board. What a bummer though, it did look really good for a while. Funny thing is it was an experimental board that was going to be quick and dirty (read white/sanded) but I got Mr.Clean’s video the day before I was glassing…really wanted to try the “overnight-bend-the-tape” inlay cutting trick, GREAT TIP!
Is there any way it could have something to do with tinting UV resin?
Thanks for the replys. It still surfs GREAT so I think I’ll go get it wet…
JR1, the good thing is that it is your board. So if it looks bad no big deal. I have a friend of mine that got a new yellow tinted board from down in SoCal. He put it on top of his truck and drove to Santa Curz. Kinda looked like your does. That was about 3 or 4 years back. Sounds like you got hold of some of the same batch of tint. He has this think for yellow tinted boards.(I think he tells his wife it is the same board even though he is buying new boards that just look the same. You know if it is pretty most of the ladys don’t know the differance) Any way he has not had another one of them fade out like that first one. The new tint is coming from fiberglass Hawaiia, that is where I buy all of my supplys. I have heard nothing but good things about them. Harbour’s glasser use’s them I think. I know most of the shops up here use them. Remember pigments are solids, the best onces are ground so small that they look like a liquid. Tints are a dye. Pigments are used in paints, remember that old 40 Ford, the paint still looked good after you rubbed it out. The new cars will not look that good once they get that old, but we will all be safer, and live longer, so we can be a pain in the butts to all of the young guys in the line up that think they know it all when if fact we know we know it all. We have been there and done that, and we have the tee shirt to prove it. Good surfing.
Ive heard using color tints with UV resin doesn’t work well. The guy over at Fiberglass Hawaii in Santa Cruz said something about the tints not allowing enough UV exposure to properly catalyze the resin. They recommended using regular lam resin with color work.
here’s my experience with yellow. Hastings yellow tint fades FAST everytime. same with green and amber. the rest of they’re tints are really good, great blues.
Fiberglass Hawaii’s yellow tint is great. no fade and really clear. when you go rich it goes a little school bus so we add a few drops of hastings opaque lemon yellow. that mix stays transparant and it really glows.