OK, I had a lot of fun making my first two boards, BUT for some odd reason they turned out heavier than I expected, after glassing that is. The boards are a 6’9" thruster and a 8’1" mini-lingboard. The 6’9’ is heavier than some of it’s predecessors, but manageable and the 8’1" is a tank. The 6’9" was glassed with 4oz E cloth with sanding resin only and the 8’1" was done with one 6oz on the bottom and the top was done with one 6oz and one 4oz finished with a gloss coat. During the glassing process I scraped off as much resin as possible hoping to keep the weight down. Where did I go wrong. Tell me some of your secrets. Thank you in advance…
What density blank did you use?
its probably because you didnt sand the hotcoat very much. Or it may be because you kicked the resin slow and some of it soaked into the foam
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What density blank did you use?
Both blanks were super blue and I used UV cure resin.
Don’t know? probably way too light a hand in Laminating. Trick is to completely saturate the cloth by quickly painting the resin on with your squeegee, then you pull the resin off, back into the bucket, then you go over it again to laminate the glass too the foam. The end result should look like clear glass with tight weave showing, not a smooth or puddled surface. If you laminated with Hoat Coat, and didn’t sand, you got way too much resin on the board, the cloth is just floating in a resin sandwich between the board and the top resin coat / floater. You’ll probably end up with a brittle board too. The whole process is supposed to be done in 3 micro thin steps, lam, hot coat, gloss, not on big thick one. So that’s my guess?
-Jay
you laminated with sanding resin???..that could be where you went wrong…if im just mis reading your thing there ,the forget it… i noticed #2 #3 #4 seem lighter than #1i guess that just practice or something …so dont worry,but if you lam with hotcoat,what ,i just dont get it…dont do that again.