Have made the most of some down time from domestic duties and shaped a bunch of eps sleds.
Just quoting up on epoxy resin and comparing the UV stablie to the standard, which will yellow at some point. Little bit of a price difference so was wondering what sort of timeframe I have before my boards start to yellow? Is it days, months or will my board be dead before it yellows?
Being a backyard hack havent really got the boards under belt experience that many on here have.
Have thought about pigmenting the hot coat, or painting the deck pre-glass but they have their issues as well.
howdy yorky, any supplier contacts for me here in manila?
i feel like a chump for buying expensive UV protection powder from the local epoxy resin supplier. when i opened the cans, turned out their hardener was deep amber in color. so the laminate on my wood + plant fiber HWS came out like it was meant to look aged & yellowed from the get-go. i know i’m over it, but i still want to shoot their knees off hehe
I’ve got a board that’s about 6 months old now, done with Resin Reasearch Kwik Kick, and it’s whiter than I expected it to be. But I keep my boards out of the sun except for when they’re in the water. Usually the decks go yellow way before the bottoms.
I mostly do color work on my boards with that yellowing in mind. Back when I was using slurry to seal the blanks I’d add some pigment into those coats and then do a clear or tinted lamination over that. Kind of a hassle and I had trouble with the results. Now I do it differently.
I skip the slurry seal of the blank altogether now. Instead, I lay down a layer of 2oz top and bottom in clear to seal the foam and then do a resin tint or opaque over that to get the more uniform color and texture. I did one last year where I did a painted spray over the inner “sealer” lam and a tint in the outer lam - that came out kinda cool. Because I’m adding a layer I adjust the weight of the cloth in the outer lam accordingly, so the boards come out at about the same weight. They actually seem a little stronger, too.
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Are they to ride, or you going to buy them flowers and put a frame around them.
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Heh, heh. I am still at the point where I enjoy the build process as much as the actual surfing. I’ll prolly feel a lot different about it if I ever get past my first 1000 boards, which is pretty doubtful at this point.
The yellowing will be equal to the quality of the uv powder used by the resin company. The top shelf stuff is from Switzerland , and its expensive . A good quality polyurethane finish coat is maybe a better option and cheaper.