Has anyone seen the glassing video that Watermans Guild and Harbour Surf have on their website? In both videos the glasser runs his hand behind the squeege. Does anyone know why this is? Also does anyone have any tips for pulling the lamination nice and tight?
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Has anyone seen the glassing video that Watermans Guild and Harbour Surf have on their website? In both videos the glasser runs his hand behind the squeege. Does anyone know why this is? Also does anyone have any tips for pulling the lamination nice and tight?
That’s just for a better “feel” of the lamination around the rails, I’d say. At least that’s what I do. Especially in tricky places like the nose (on a longboard, because of the round shape), I like to “work” the cloth with my fingers rather than with the squeegee. Wearing gloves, of course…
As for tips for pulling the lamination nice and tight, I suppose Kokua will back me up if I say: “Do it once. Then do it again. And again. And…”
I thought it may have been to check for air bubbles. Thanks for the advice on getting the lam tighter as well.
Bonjour Balsa et all!
i was wondering, being an epoxy user and all (sorry Balsa, j’en accumule…), I use a roller to spread the resin over the lam, have you polyester users tried a roller or does that not work?
I haven’t tried it but I guess it might work using the “folding back” technique, i.e. fold back the rail lap onto the deck (or bottom) and saturate it using the roller. Then, once saturated for good, fold it back around the rail. Most probably would save a significant amount of resin as compared to the “classical” let the resin flow along the lap and down to the ground (or some in the mixing cup, if done properly…) Just a different technique. I know that’s what many epoxy users are doing and there’s no reason why it should not work.
A clean finish on the blank helps the lam go down nice and tight.
Check the angle of the spreader as you pull from stringer to rail, and keep even pressure. Laying the spreader too flat won’t get all the resin out… keeping it too upright makes it scrape the cloth.
You cant really didlydadly with a brush and roller with polly…epoxy youve got all day,with poly its a bomb waiting to go off with a 12-15 min timer