Well I filled the boxes with my favorite wax, Mr. Zog’s Quick Humps “FRIGID WATER” formula … and scooped it out/rubbed with Xylene when done. Used emery boards to file edges. Looks good, needs hotcoating/sanding etc. the area around the fins got a rough finish due to peeling the bag off early to cut the glass inside the boxes.
I was going to post “Looks beautiful”, because the color came out so well, but you gotta finish it first.
Endlesswinter,
How did you do the “tie-dye” look of your board? Did you dye the glass berfore laminating?.. looks great!!!
bill
Looks great.
Is that a tye dyed cloth inlay? I take it you vac bagged it.
If doing a traditional lam, would you leave the wax in, then come back and cut the glass once its cureed a bit like a cut lap or capping a box.
did you isand the lip of the box before the insert, and was it inserted prior to any glassing like a future box.
That is actually tie dyed hemp fabric, tie dyed by myself … tough stuff. Surprisingly strong. No glass over it.
After putting a sealer coat on the blank (epoxy/microbaloons/cab-o-sil) and doing my Kevlar tape around the rails and where the center fin would be, I sanded everything down nice and vacuumed the deck layers on. Then after cleaning that up good, I marked the holes, routered them out down to the glass, and set the boxes 3/4 full with very slow setting System Three epoxy. Topped off next day with Resin Research epoxy. No burnouts.
Planed and sanded them flush, melted wax and filled the holes. Made sure no wax was on the outside surface anywhere. Now I put some white epoxy paint on the boxes, and laid out the cloth. Wetted it all out good, trimmed the edges nicely, and put it in the bag, and turned the vac on.
Once it was set pretty good, I peeled the bag back on the tail and cut the fin box holes with a razor knife. If I had this to do over again, I would have not peeled anything … I almost de-lammed the board on the tail. Fortunately it was still wet enough to get it to lay back down good. Next time I cut the holes right through the bag and don’t peel anything til it’s totally hard.
Next day I scooped the wax out, and cleaned up with Xylene. Then trimmed edges around the boxes with razor knife and filed with emery board. Drilled FCS screw holes out nicely.
Ready for hotcoating.