I can vouch for the fact that if you glass inside, underneath a dwelling, the smell WILL permeate upstairs. My wife was NOT happy. I just glassed outside, and it was fine. I would think fog and wind would be your biggest obstacles. I glassed with a fence blocking the wind and an EZ-UP to stop any random leaves falling. Worked like a charm…
Nice looking board. Be a shame to f… it up. Damn good offer from lavarat. A good honorable man. I’d take it. I’ve never glassed completely outside, but have done a bunch of poly boards under an open car port with tarps scabbed around the openings. If you use uv cure the smallest brushing of sunlight will start it turning into plastic. I’ve got bug wings, legs, fairly dust, and rat piss in a bunch of mine. I think they surf better that way. Mike
Guys,
I just went for it. The smell wasnt too bad at all. Ended up hanging a tarp. My biggest problem was even though I had more than enough resin getting it to soak the overhang for the laps was tricky. it seemed like it was just dripping off and not soaking a ton. Had to do an emergency batch. Had some dry spots on the first bottom lam/laps. The deck /bottom laps turned out exponentially better but it was hard to correct the dry/bubbly/chunky laps on the deck. Felt like I learned alot and each step I improved upon learning quick from mistakes. That shit is messy! Glass on fin was a pain in the ass when I started going at it realized my 5 minute epoxy/fin setup wasnt quite stable so when I started going at it the fin came loose and was a pain to deal with when applying resin, cloth, rope, etc. But it ended up turning out totally surfable. once I hot coated/sanded alot of the bump/texture from my shitty cut laps was smoothed out. Ran out of lam resin and my fin was still questionably flexible. SO I went rogue and during hotcoat applied more cloth at the base with sanding resin. It cleaned up decent and feels sturdier-although unorthadox. For the most part it aint too shabby for my first full glass job. My deck and tail patches came out pretty nice too. heres some photos! Thanks for all the help. At the end of the operation part of me covered in dust was like. NEVER DOING THAT AGAIN. But the days after I slowly come to terms with the fact that I will probably end up doing it again. It was quickly apparent glassing is a skill that takes time to develop. I was wondering if the ratio of time it takes to get good, ammount of boards it takes to get good, and the ammount of mess it makes all aligns with KEEP MAKING MORE BOARDS…questionable. But I love working with new materials and getting a handle on them, learning new processes, etc. so chances are I will push ahead!
Cheers
Nick
Nick,
That is really nice and me thinks for your 1st go, not a too shabby!
get that baby wet!
NEVER DOING THAT AGAIN.
thats what i say to myself after every board haha good luck escaping it now!!!
I agree 100% with McDing here. This is your first glass job. You are asking for trouble trying to add additional complications to an already difficult process for a first timer. Don’t be penny wise and pound foolish. Save your PE resin for ding repair and fin installs. Suck it up and buy some Resin Research epoxy, and glass it in a controlled environment in your shaping room. A blue tarp on the floor will protect the floor. Yes it’s a bit slippery, but just be careful.
Welp, put the thing through its paces yesterday evening at the boatdocks a spot with reefy bottom peelers off pedro point. If you ask me, when its working, this is the best logging in the immediate bay area. Besides bolinas or santa cruz. It was a little choppy but some decent rides to be had. My first ride was insane. The board did everything I wanted to do-and happened to do so on my first ride. Paddles really well, fast. Catches waves super easy and smooth entry. Dropped in, nice smooth bottom turn, set my line, trim, hard cutback, really easy to dig/bury the tail and rail and get a good deep cutback, then dropped into the next fast section, it started walling up, walked to the nose - SO STABLE, board started FLYING at this point! upfront the board accelerates and glides so smooth and fast. and with enough volume that its very stable upfront and if you make one wrong move it doesnt just nosedive on you. Walked back, cut back again, kicked out.
I was stoked! I screamed fuck yeah! Pretty lucky that on my first wave on it I was able to put it through all its paces and see everything I wanted to happen happening. It was a killer run and I got a few more just like it in my session.
THIS IS AWESOME! hahah
cheers
Nick
Cool
I assume by the “smell” issue this was PU, as I am sure there will be a “next time”. My 2cents just get all lam resin and use SA (surfacing agent) the ratio available on line and yes it works with UV just treat it the same as regular PU resin and add Catalyst. Most folk think about 20 or so boards earn you your wings. BTW your deck patch cuts look sano! I don’t feel it will take that long for you.
Hope for you (like me) the next one turns into 3 or 4, makin’ boards is just like an addition…
And like Bud suggested think about it, having control is everything.
That board looks awesome! I lived up there for 6 years and made a few boards as well. Thing i found for smell was find a small garage/shed you can glass in and then use uv resin. the smell will go away fast once youve put it in the sun. plus the extra working time combined with fast drying time is pretty killer. Stoked you got to ride at boatdocks on a fun day, it can be a really fun loggin wave along with all of lindamar at times. Sounds like the boards turned out good!
