I have been following them on Instagram and they have always had some cool art/designs under the gloss pollish finishes.
BUT these new designs blows my mind. I would love to try this on a new build.
They obviously put glitter/ metal flakes etc in some of the designs, but I quite like this worn denim look?
How do you guys think its done? One colour tint on the cloth and another colour glosscoat or hotcoat?
Has anyone ever tried this?
Yeah, their work is amazing. I wouldn’t have the first idea of how they do most of the things they do, but someday I hope to be 1% as good as they are at glassing…
do they have a website , please ?
the reason I ask is …
… because all I ever get to see on my laptop is pixels , unfortunately , with " instagram’s tiny little photos , ? enlarged ?
do they spell it luckEy ?? [with an ‘e’ ?]
cheers !
ben
Hey Ben
Sorry man that was simply miss spelt 
Im Afrikaans and English actually my second language. Fixed it.
Apart from this… http://glass-sandingjob.blogspot.com/2013/05/full-flake-for-full-bastard.html I cant find much. You can go to the instagram page on your desctop computer though, its not just a mobile app.
Bos
metal flack in tinted resin Lots of boat builders do that. A little to gaudy for me. Any quality glass shop should know how to do that. Nice work and I do like that name of their company. I wonder if they have tee shirts with their Logo?
They do amazing work and I also love that board you posted. I’m thinking about trying to do a blue/orange or blue/green with that rustic technique if someone can inform us on how it is done. As for the flakes they do on their boards look at this video http://vimeo.com/60424524. It shows them sprinkeling glitter on AFTER the resin is on the board not mixed in with resin before hand, which I previously thought.
A word of caution, when predatory fish see that glimmering of the glitter, they will think it’s something to eat. Sharks would be in that category of predatory fish. I would try to avoid attracting attention or looking like a possible meal when viewed from the bottom. Think about the way sharks and rays and many other larger sea creatures look from the bottom. Most are light colored on the bottom and dark on the top.
Fish lures often use glitter and shiny attachments to attract fish. You are just making your self a very large lure for a large predatory fish.
Haha. Yes for the SUPS!
Im not so much into the glitter as I am into that faded effect, just for something new, adding a bit of texture and leaving a bit of a story about the process.
“Missfit shapes” have been making acrylic brush dots for a lack of better words on some of their boards. I liked this one…
I have some nice metal fleck powder pigments , that I used in a few fin panels, last year .
I may try combining them [ I have a green , a copper , and a silver ] , in the next fin panel I lay up , to see if I can come up with some sort of similar patterns .
Doing that … plus , masking / stencilling and then spraypainting fibreglass cloth before glassing … could [ hopefully ! ] yield some interesting results !
thanks for posting up this thread , as it’s got me thinking…
cheers !
ben
Just ad the smell of an old stinky wetsuit to the mix and you have a sure fire shark lure.
I’ve done a few like this. Laminate your cloth in one color, then do your fill coat in another. I found it was helpful to roll a thin layer of clear resin over the lam coat with a foam roller before doing the colored fill coat. This gives better separation between the colors when you go to sanding to achieve the distressed look. You want to use a roller with the clear resin and not a brush, b/c you want to leave all the cloth edges and dips and voids you might have on the board. Then fill coat with another color. Sand away with 60 grit but watch out for sand through. It’s not gonna look like you expect at this point, you’ll need a good compressor and you’ll have to blow it off really well. Wipe it with xylene, add laminates, then do your gloss coat and the thing will pop… Sand and polish that bastard to 5000 grit then buff her with headlight restorer and she’ll be so pretty you wont want to surf her. The whole process is very labor intensive and not at all production friendly, but if you are only doing a few boards a week, or being compensated well for your time, its worth it and comes out so much cooler that an all white board.
Hope this helps…
I have a few pics of my stuff on Instagram. check them out my screen name there is grambosurf.
that sounds great hofnar !
any chance you could post a few photos here too, please , as a few of us can’t do the instagram thing ?
…I’d be really keen to see that !
cheers
ben
hey fins, if you have internet, you can cruise instagram, here’s hofnar’s account - http://instagram.com/grambosurf#
The distressed look stuff is simple. On your raw lam (before hotcoat), do some rattle can spray contrast color. Black was used on board in the pics. Then take a scraper or razor blade and go over surface. It’ll hit the tops of weave and leave color down in low spots. Hot coat over and proceed as normal.
I think it’s pretty funny what passes as cool these days, but whatever floats your boat…
pppffftttt, old fart… with all your fancy function over form
LOL, I got yelled at last time I commented on what passes for groovy color work. So now I’m definitely going to add a disclaimer that if you like that stuff, have at it. That’s why I posted how to do the distressed look, so all of sways and china can go to it.
Mike, do you mean lam the board normally, spray black or whatever color, scrape, hotcoat in any color, sand, then gloss? In the picture it looks like the color (green/blue) was actually put on after the black since it’s harder too see the weave where there’s color
The board pictured has a clear hotcoat, there was some kind of slob job color in the lam, then the black followed by scraping.
Doing the colored hot coat and intentionally sanding thru it is another look entirely lol.
You don’t mean spray paint when say rattle can, right?
