Lap on the deck that is, not the lap from the deck.
Yes, Make sure your lamination is well cured. Pull the tape back and cut horizontally just under the tape edge… called a zipper cut.
I’ve got a couple pictures that may give you the idea of how this works on my blog post dated January 16.
http://drsurfboards.blogspot.com/
D.R.
Dennis ------Absolutly right. Blade on an angle. Wait until it is set up good etc. Always sets up faster in the bucket. Didn't know you had a blog. Now that I do know; I'll be frequenting. Hope you are doing well. Lowel
Howzit McDing,Bending the blade also helps when cutting at an angle. Aloha,Kokua
Thanks Dennis.
Hello Dean,
I promised myself I would stay out of pissing matches with you. I may go back on my promise.
Today I log onto Swaylock's and I see more than one post from you about cut laps....How to do it ....what are the tricks....Blah Blah blah. From our past exchanges I thought you had a good understanding about cut laps and glassing surfboards. I guess I was wrong.
The more you do it the better you get...It's that simple. Different foams,different resins, it's all about the timing. The skill of the Lab Tech will come with time. Mask the board. Double tape will help you not cut into the foam.
Colors are fun...go for it!
Ray
So what if you cut into the foam?
on clear laminations it looks bad and can be very noticeable. Ask me how I know
The toughest places are around the nose and corners of the tail, extra layers, extra thickness, I have been doing cut laps on EPS, BUT, if you cut into the sealer skin it lets the core blow where the skin has been breached and you have to keep an eye on it the whole time.
The last 2 I have done taped laps on, I laid 2 layers of tape, each right on top of each other and the masking paper tape on top of those two, now the tape line is as thick or thicker than the lamination.
When it is cured, #60 on my variable sander, hard pad, as slow as what will work, it sands through over the tapeline and then lift off the mask, no cuts in the FOAM, pre feathered edge, no bubbles either from a too high a lap edge
That’s pure gold, thanks for the details Jim! Will it work for a colored lam?
Hey Bud, they don't call him ''The Genius'' for nothin' :-)
wow
Yeah Jim, I have heard guys talk about doing cutlaps using this method. Never got around to trying it myself. I can see the definite advantage on spackled or sealed EPS. Double or triple tape seems to be the key. I use double tape on opaques. If you can't see you can at least feel it.
Howzit Bud, This what Swaylocks is all about and in it's formative years that was what we did. trade tips and tricks of the trade among ourselves and that my friend is what makes this the best board building web site on the internet. Aloha,Kokua
yep well worth login’ in
just thinkin’ of all them
razor blade gouges
and kindergarden
pin lines thet was really
fat crayon lines
bleeding all over
that great state
of tarnation,AS A kuk
!st class and a seeker
of wisdom and truth
If I was ever told
this one before
it never permeated
the frontal lobe.
blessings and fealty
to the swaylox god
and magnum mahalos
to master philips…
now if tape was only
2.00 a roll instead o’6$
…ambrose…
where’s that shaped marko blank?
I do it like that for 5 years on all boards (all EPS): tint lam and carbon rails too.
Sorry for my frenglish.
I posted this a while back.
The double tape is sweet…
http://www2.swaylocks.com/comment/1379154/Re-don53-Cut-laps-question
OK! Well it's Sunday morning here on the Mainland and I've had my poetry for the day. lol
The double tape trick is an old trick and has been discussed more than a few times and you should just be glad that Jim for brought it back from the past,.Aloha,Koua
The double tape trick is an old trick and has been discussed more than a few times and you should just be glad that Jim for brought it back from the past,.Aloha,Koua
OH YES !. It’s certainly here i learn this. I just want to say that’s it’s works well for me for every kind of fiber and tint resin to answer Bud.
All what i do is to try to use knowledge share here, in university and work for improve my process and share it here again.
Sorry for my frenglish.