Here’s the current project…
Here’s the current project…
Nice colour ! Wat’s da size ? E thickness looks like it can float a car …
psychedelicious Ray-man ! [if ya made it a twinnie , you’d have “double trouble”]
What can I say…
I’m a glasser not a shaper.
I’m going to make rail templates from this board so the next one won’t be so fat!
For Chip and Hicksy I brought this thread back up to the top.
Not only is it in the colors but how you pour and how you stroke the squeege.
We painted this one yellow first. I’ve had red do crazy things. Not always bad things. But not always the desired effect.
One cup of clear resin was poured down the stringer before the colors were poured.
I like mix colors in 3oz cups and then mix those colors into a bigger cup of clear or light colored resin. Stir to move the color around in the cup but not to blend it together. About 3/4 of a complete circle in the cup. Now pour resin and get crazy. You can see how I went from the center outward. make some more cupfulls and pour it out. Drip the mixing stick on the board too! You can even flick some resin over there. a dab here a dip there. Each “stripe” was squeeged in the direction that it flows. Takes a lot of time and a lot of waste goes over the side. I was able to catch some of the resin flowing off the side and pour it back onto the board but you have to watch out for “mud”. Dry spots were backfilled with clear resin because the board was already painted yellow.
Good times
Ray
"One cup of clear resin was poured down the stringer before the colors were poured. "
uh huh …
the deck , which I screwed up … [it also had clear poured down the rails …net result …vomit-like effect , I was not happy with it]
Hi Ben ,
I think you are mixing in too much pigment with your resin. I’m not sure maybe you should talk with Austin Surfboards. Reds tend to want to take over. You can still save that deck if you’re willing to do some extra work.
Mask off the rails at the lap line and put one more layer of 4oz. on the deck. Do a swirl. Try colors that are more transparent. Or…
forget about it and go surfing !
The bottom looks good , like fire!
Ray
Nice looking swirl job stingray, but you never did say how thick that board was. How long is it? it looks like a real floater to me, just my kind of board?
hey g’day Ray ,
it’s been finished about a week now, mate !
…remember the burgundy and yellow deck , in the “next one” thread ???
[well…THAT’S what I did over the top , once I had spent AGES sanding and cleaning it up]
here’s a couple of reminder photos , just for you , Ray …
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[this colour for some reason never seems to photograph very accurately …it’s a much more “plum-tone” of a colour in real life …really nice , rich colour ! [oh well , photography IS limited , sometimes ! it gives the ‘general’ idea , anyway , I suppose !]
cheers !
ben
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Hey Ben,
Next time do a combination of little cups of all sorts of color, pour the color in to the cups as a steady stream. Use lots of little cups and pour them in overlaping pools all over the board. Once the board is semi covered, you can come back with a catup squeeze bottle and pour squiggles, or dots or more puddles…what ever. Once you do a few swirls you’ll start to know what the resin is going to do. ie. If you take those cups and pour/pull at the same time your going to get a streaking line effect. If you pour cups and do little pulls and add streaks you’ll get the effect below.
Hey Ben,
Next time do a combination of little cups of all sorts of color, pour the color in to the cups as a steady stream. Use lots of little cups and pour them in overlaping pools all over the board. Once the board is semi covered, you can come back with a catup squeeze bottle and pour squiggles, or dots or more puddles…what ever. Once you do a few swirls you’ll start to know what the resin is going to do. ie. If you take those cups and pour/pull at the same time your going to get a streaking line effect. If you pour cups and do little pulls and add streaks you’ll get the effect below.
Picture attachment take two!
One more thing, The trick is not to overwork the resin, the more you walk the squeegee around the board, the more you get muddied colors…which isn’t bad if thats the effect your looking for. Now for the rail laps, if you don’t get a full wet out, good. Go ahead and turn the rails with dry spots (I mean some small dry spots, not 8" long spots) now go back over those spots with a different color and a paint brush to wet out. Now its wetted out and you can pull it tight. Presto.
You learned a lot from you first swirl. next one will be that much better.
thanks Jay ,
That blue one looks NICE. Was that two different blue colours , plus white pigment ?
cheers !
ben
here’s a slightly more accurate rendition of the ‘burgundy’ deck of my ‘bushfire’ board…
Our latest resin swirl.
Our latest resin swirl.
Very nice marble effect!
6’ 5" Short and Fat
20 3/4 wide
2 3/4 thick
Thickness comes all the way out to the edge
Maybe I’ll ride her this weekend
Shipman has a box of old glass on fins that he lets me dig through. I came up with these. They looked really bad to start out but I sanded them really good and cut tabs in them for the FCS plugs. Not bad for free fins !
Learned that trick from Chipfish61.
Now I have to break down and spend some money on a center fin.
Nice boards Resinhead ,T Sanders and Austin.
Ray
nice fins …
dig deeper , find an old single fin , and do the same …
I know I have !
ben
i really like that marble swirl resinhead! looks so sweet. how many colours did you use?