hi, ive just sprayed the top of my blank with spray paint. im worried that when i sand the lap for the bottom lam ill ruin the paint....so im just asking if i did the deck lam first, would everything go well... because everything ive looked at, they glass the bottom first.
thanks!
If you are spooked abourt hitting the art, after lam’ing the bottom, flip the board when it has set up and paste about a 3" wide clear lam coat past the lap edge from nose to tail, keep it thin so you don’t have to sweat feathering in the edge from it, but it will protect the color. Don’t bang the coat over the color off with a lot of MEK, this will cause it to discolor.
thanks!!
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You can do the deck first with a single layer, then flip it and do the bottom, then flip it again for the second deck layer, but this seems like more work than the basting trick.
Hey Don
A local shaper, pauluk, showed me a nice trick on my last board...we did a cutlap. Then when the glass was completly dry we used a plastic roller to slightly squish down the glass job into the foam on the deck just so the lam is level with the foam. The only sanding we had to do was on the tail corners and the nose, so no fear of sanding foam from the deck. I then lammed the deck with no problems or raised glass.
The roller was about 2in wide...i cant remember exactly.
I'd say its important as well that the glass is totally dry, otherwise it may stick to the roller and get pulled of.
Hope this helps.
Kon
I’d be afraid that pushing the lap line down into the foam might create little cracks in the paint that you could see. I just freelap over my paint jobs.
T'is true...I was thinking about that only after a pressed "post" button.
Well I guess if one were to pinline it, that would hide the cracks...but at this stage i'm just theorizing...
Kon
Unless you piniine the board afterwards, the lap edge that has been rolled into the foam leaves a crush line that is very visible. Over 25 years ago one of my laminators “showed” me this “trick”, it took 5 untouching pinlines to cover the carnage, short cuts take longer
Hmmm...was it a clear bottom on a white board or was the deck spray painted? I have lammed the bottom with black pigment, maybe thats why this method was an option in my case.
I presume that if it was a clear lam job then there would be a very visible shadow created by a vertical plane where the glass was leveled with the foam.
i sprayed the deck.. i glassed the bottom today so im just gonna sand the laps carefully!
baste it!