Hi
I’d lamintete the bottom of my fish today with resin with yellow pigment and it was nothing good…
the bottom its fine, but the laps(cut lap) was very wrong…I made lots of air bubbles, and i didnt cut the lap very well!
And i didnt cover all the swallow tail with cloth…
I made many mistakes!I’ll post some pics later!
I NEED HELP PLEASE
Romeblue, If the bubbles are big enough, you can cut them open with a razor blade and force in some lam resin using a small paint brush.The resin should be thinned out with styrene and catalyzed. If the rails still look bad, go ahead and hotcoat, then paint over the mistakes with water-based acrylic paint, then gloss over that. Careful when you sand the gloss: very lightly, by hand, so you don’t sand into the paint.
You can laminate small patches of fiberglass cloth over the places you missed. It’s a good idea to sand down any sharp edges, or high spots of the existing cloth first. Use a 4" disc on a small grinder if you have one. If not, aluminum oxide sandpaper (Home Depot) with a hard wood sanding block will do.
Don’t stress. We, who have some of these solutions, have them because we made the same mistakes ourselves. And we’re happily surfing the boards we made the mistakes on.
Thomas Edison tried over 2000 times to make a working filament for the light bulb, without success. When an aquaintance suggested that he had failed, Edison said, “I haven’t failed. I just found 2000 ways not to make a light bulb”
Do your best, then have fun surfing your new board. Doug
Hi romeublue,
After cleaning up the rails with extra glass/resin/sanding, you could retape the shape
of the yellow outline using the same yellow pigment lam. This would give the top a cleaner shaped yellow rail edge if you glass it clear…
hi Rome !
Will you also be tinting the deck ?
ben
nop, i’ll do it clear…
Thank you all
If i may offer a suggestion…grind it all down smooth…tint the inlay on the top yellow. That will cure all your holes etc. Then make it all smooth again. Then glass clear layer over it. It will help to hide all of the “oops”. You may not have wanted an all yellow board but…sometimes you have to improvise. Then after you hotcoat, do a pinline to clean up your lap lines. You could just patch all of the areas with yellow and cut the laps again after the patches, but thats A LOT of patching. Just a few ideas. When i glass the bottom of a fish I run my laps straigt off the rails. I glass the butt crack with the top layers, and some fin rope.
Just some advice for future fish.
Austin S.
