whiling the time away waiting for a decent swell… leftover Clark blank w/ custom stringer.
made for a local gal. Hope she likes it… Hotcoated but not sanded yet. Will have ProBox thruster fin setup.
That’s a beauty, Keith. I’m sure she’ll love it. Did you give the colors a quick stir in one bucket, or did you do separate pours? I know how the two techniques work, but I’m not yet sure how to tell the results apart…
Edit: after a closer look, I’d guess you did sequential pours. But the yellow looks last, except for that “first color to hit cloth, wins” adage…so what was the technique & the order? Thanks…
Its been raining up here interminably and I got nuthin to show for it except way too many pairs of muddy shoes on my front porch.
Last week was beautiful, apparently, but I was out of town. Everything before & since was both flat & rainy.
thanks Benny. Sequential pours, light to dark - first white, then yellow, then red. With lots of little follow up drizzles on the rails. Kinda fun, actually. Although I over-catalyzed so it was a bit exciting for a while…
Keith,
Nice Board! With a nice stringer…3/4" cedar? It looks like you managed to keep the colored pour off the stringer on the nose - on the deck (can’t see the tail too well). Was that intentional - if so, how did you manage it - or was it the luck of the pour with the strong color of the wood coming through?
Can sympathize with the “exciting” multi-color lam. Recently did green abstract “squiggles” (used plastic ketchup dispensers like you use at picnics) with yellow over. Had the bucket of yellow ready with the cat. next to it. Was so jazzed by the way the squiggles came out, I grabbed the bucket of yellow and poured about half out when I realized I’d forgotten the catalyst. DOH! Fearing the green would start to go off, I just dumped most all of the cat. I’d measured out into what was left, swirled it in and poured it over the already poured out un catalyzed yellow. After doing the dance of the hurried glasser, I sat back and pondered my assumption that once the chemical reaction started all the resin would surely harden fairly uniformly. Fortunately it did - another disaster averted.
What we do for fun…
Pete
Another beautiful board. They never cease to amaze me.
Howzit Benny, When doing the stir in the resin do you ever do a couple of figure eight stirs, makes for some interesting designs.Aloha,Kokua
Kokua, I know the techniques from here on Sways…never done any of them myself !
Trying to learn, and, as usual, you provide a key point. 
Thanks
Howzit Benny, Like I said we get some great designs from this technique. Some come out looking like waves and even had some that looked like the Quicksilver logo. Try it some time, you’ll love it if done right.Aloha,Kokua
Hey Pete - you have a good eye, yes that is a 3/4" cedar stringer. I did a cut lap around the stringer at the nose, so no color there. 2 layers (6+4) clear on the deck seemed to be enough, and the wood is too pretty to cover up for the most part. Although I did the tail different than the nose (no particular reason for that decision).
I try to catalyze all the colors at once before I start…