on the Cooperfish website,the mellow yello modelo, how do they get the effect of an acid splash? it looks like bleach, the white splattered into the color. is it a pigmented white splashed…always amazed at their glassing.
hey teddy i just did some experimenting with a new board. and ive figured out how they do it. give me your email and ill send you two pics of my newest longboard.
Someone once told me the first color that hit the glass wins. I tried it and learned that you need a generous amount of pigment in your resin and that it doesn’t hurt to do a test on some scrap pieces first. Also, some colors go better with each other like yellow and white for instance. If the master glasser video get’s finnished anytime soon, it will propably show you how, in detail. regards, Håvard
Mix the colors up seperately with your base color in a bigger bucket. Put the accent colors in Ketchup squeeze bottles so you can regulate the amount of color. Then gently squeeze your colors into the big bucket, and start laminating. Remember that different ounces containers of resin will kick off faster that others, so keep track of all those little and big bucket of resin. Keep some resin in the squeeze bottles so you can hit the rails and do some swirly vortex stuff. It’s the first color to hit the cloth that will pigment the board so color planning of blend colors goes a long, long way. Putting red, blue, yellow together will only end up at the end of the squeege in a hidious brown, so try to do a batch of Dark Blue, light Blue, White, Purple in one smear. Then do a Red, Orange, yellow, White in another. Good luck -Jay
it also helps to have a few squeegees. that way towards the end you can grab a new one and it wont have the color mixed all into mud. you start fresh and keep the colors more crisp. Austin S
Austin - If you would, please send photos and tips to me as well. Thanks!
me three. that surfers journal segment got me thinking too.
I’d like to see these also. Please?
sent tell me what you think
definitely worth the 350 email checks I did today waiting on them! Nice colors (not sure what else to say! words just cant express…) So different squeeges per color? Do you pour a line of the splash resin across the board or just a dab, then hit with the squeege? also, are all the colors layed down at the same time, or some time to dry in between? thanks for replies, and nice work!
Why not post the pictures and directions here so we all can see?
ok. here we go again. Phil i plan on posting them when the board is completed. i just laminated it last night. fluffy, i use two squeegees for the whole board. I use the first with the flood of resin and the second to flip the laps and clean them up. If you dont have a fresh squeegee you will turn you rails into mud instead of a clean job. I pour the resin straight onto the board. No squeegee involved. Just let it sit a few seconds and do its thing. It helps to have someone holding out the laps while you pour so you get the splash even on the under side of the rails. All of the splash colors are poured first and then i used the base color to laminate the rest of the way. The flood color is kicked a few minutes after the splash color. Dont let it gel. My email to ya’ll was much more info included but my mind is tired and i dont remember everything i wrote. Austin S
thanks for the info, it helped. heres what you wrote, if it helps: “ok this is the basic splash tecnique of gene cooper. The first thing you should know is that the first resin to hit the cloth wins the battle of color. This isn’t the mellow yellow pattern but it works the same way teddy. First thing is go heavy with the amount of pigment you add. Next i had three buckets of color besides my “flood resin”. Black light blue and dark, dark blue. My flood resin which is what you use to laminate the whole board was a dark blue. for an 8’6 with 3 inch laps i had close to 3 quarts just to make sure. I kicked the color splash buckets at 1% and the flood resin at 1.25% roughly. The key to remember is when you are using the flooding resin that the more you work it the more of a “mud” youre gonna get. Another thing was to get out as much of the excess flood resin as possible. This allows for the splash color to jump out at you. If you have a few squeegees it would help to minimalize the “mud”. When you are pouring the splash hold out your laps so the get the resin on them aswell. Well only one more thing i can think of is push hard on the under side of the laps to get the splash to jump out there too. ok enough of that ramble. Remember these pics are of a lam so its not very jump out yet. ill send pics when i finish the board too, or post them. Austin”