Here is a video of how we do our Mexican Blanket Resin Designs. The video is a little large and the quality is poor…but you get the gist of it. Let me know what you think.
Austin S
www.austinsurfboards.com/samgeorgevideo
here is the finished product of the board
Nice darn job Austin M’Boy.I saved it along with your other video.I did kind of the same thing once using ketchup squeeze bottles inslead of shoestrings.Was that resin starting to go off?Looks like you guys were under the gun and starting to sweat a little.LOL RB (PS…Are those mini vids hard to do??I would like to see more of this on Swaylocks.It really makes things clear for the new guys…and old guys like me too.)
Thanks Austin…That was perfect. Cleanlines is definitely right, those little videos make all the difference in the world to us new guys.
Cleanlines,
We kicked each bucket of resin off seperately when we needed them. We also kicked the first batches off very slowly. We were lucky that we had plenty of time. When we did the retro fish we posted we did have the yellow kicking off a little early but no problem.
The videos are really not that big of a deal just the editing that takes time. You have to condense 30 minutes of video to no more then 3 or 4 minutes and still have it make sense. That is the hard part! Many of the boards on the website have their own little video attached. The customers seem to like it. The hard part is getting enough video to edit.
The correct image for the completed Sam George board is:\
Yes, thank you Austin. Great job!!! On a tiger stripe I helped out on, we under catalyzed the stripes to allow for more work time, used resin soaked fin rope to make the stripes (seemed like kind of a waste of expensive material to me - I like your low tech shoe string method) and mixed a “hot” flood coat to set it all off. The flood coat was poured pretty much down the center and we squeegeed out to the rails from the stringer to keep things crisp.
Your Mexican Blanket board turned out really nice - is it for Sam George, editor at Surfer Mag? Why the name?
Had Robert Motherwell or Jackson Pollock been surfers, thats what their boards would have looked like… that is a work of art, thanks for posting that…
Ben.
john the board was for a customer named sam george. however if the editor of surfer mag. needs a board i think i could hook him up. haha. Thanks for all the kind words.
Austin
WOW, if a picture is worth a thousand words that video is worth a billion! I was just looking info for my first swirl/splash and couldnt find a better explanation than your video. Thank you and great job Austin.
Howzit Mr. Clean, The part I liked best was the tag team glassing. I know a couple of glassers that worked for Doug Haut that did the same thing. They said they could do more boards that way.Aloha,Kokua
Cleanlines,
We kicked each bucket of resin off seperately when we needed them. We also kicked the first batches off very slowly. We were lucky that we had plenty of time. When we did the retro fish we posted we did have the yellow kicking off a little early but no problem.
The videos are really not that big of a deal just the editing that takes time. You have to condense 30 minutes of video to no more then 3 or 4 minutes and still have it make sense. That is the hard part! Many of the boards on the website have their own little video attached. The customers seem to like it. The hard part is getting enough video to edit.
The correct image for the completed Sam George board is:\
Do still have links to the other videos?
Right on Kokua.That would save a lot of hard walking especially if you have shoes that weigh in a ten pounds each because of all the resin on em.I also noticed that Austin and crew had the industry standard plastic homemade apron held on with masking tape. RB
cleanlines. yea we always try to stay at the height of fashion. the good news is that my dad edited out me almost busting my butt by slipping on kicked resin with resin full shoes. The other videos my dad mentioned are actually of customers surfing their boards. we had one other video a while ago of wetting and folding laps but i have no idea what happened to the link.
Austin S.
very enlightening! I had no idea you could do something like that. but… this is embarrassing. what is the music?
Kage,
The song is “What makes the Monkey Dance” I thought this was kind of appropriate for the way my son (Austin) and I work together. Something about two monkeys and a football come to mind.
Fantastic! Thank you for sharing. I’m planning on ordering my first couple of blanks VERY soon and as I’ve never had a chance to see any board construction/glassing in progress, I find your video is highly informative.
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