Just wanted to ask the glassers out there this question.
What is a reasonable amount of time it takes you to get a board glassed in PU and in epoxy?
Let me re-phrase this.
If a one man operation takes a month to gglass a board am I taking too long? What is too long? What are your customers willing to live with.
might be rephrased as??
What is the business level turnaround time for these?
then it should be, if your a onsie, twosie builder add 2-3 weeks depending on the shuffle your glasser uses on you to
service his bigger customers first.
i glassed a 6’0 egg on my patio in 2 days
thats lam,hot,sand, and gloss
SHORTBOARD
shape it 4 hrs
Glassing
PU with UV cat lam and hotcoat in one day 8hrs
next day sand it 1 to 2 hrs
apply gloss 2 hrs each side
wait 3 to 5 days wet sand and polish 3 hrs
19 hrs total
Epoxy
twice as long cause the shit takes forever to cure
eather way cause I have a regular job it takes me 3 to 4 weeks to get er done
EDIT: I forgot about fin boxs more time there!
I’ve glassed a board before in 2 days.
But those days are over. I pay $$ to have it done.
As a one man operation with a regular 45+ hours/week job and a family, factoring in time to surf, one month sounds about right to me. I try not to glass too late in the day so the fumes have time to blow out(my neighbor’s kid’s bedrooms are right downwind of my shop) and clear the air, so sometimes that cramps my style when I’m trying to get a board done quickly.
I can glass six at a time in 3 to 4 hours. then the other side the next day.Hot coat the next. One side in the mourning then the other at night. I don’t usually sand but it would take me about 1.5 hours per board. So I could probably do six in 5 to 6 days. We use uv cure here so I can knock off a couple of days.
when I do glassing for other shapers I tell them approx 2-3 weeks, depending on the time of year.
Christmas time around 4+ weeks.
If I build a board for myself I’ll shape it in the morning and if it has plugs set them in the arvo. If glass ons I’ll be sanding the board before the day is out.
Doing it all myself, about two weeks, if I get in the shop about every other day for an hour. Sanding takes a couple hours.
I get out of work, and either surf or go to the gym, or go to the shop for an hour or so. So for me, it’s one “day” each: lam hull/reinforcements, lam deck, hocoat hull, hotcoat deck/install leash plug, install plugs/boxes, sand.
If I botch the sanding job, which I’ve been known to do, another couple days fixing the damage! Then I’m knocking down the price and paying for my mistakes, too.