My latest project is a flourescent green board with black rails. This morning I got around to glassing it. When I put my lams under the glass I use catalist to assure it sets under the lam along with the rest of the UV resin. I also put a tiny bit of cat in the bottom lam job because of the black rails. I noticed as soon as I took it outside that anywhere the resin with catalist touched the flourescent paint around my lams it discolored the paint. On the second side I put the lams on top of the glass with a patch on top. No problem. Lesson learned. Results aren’t terrible but a little dissappointing given how good everything else looks on this board.
Paint changes and saturates different based in how long the resin is “wet” on it. Im betting you wet out and placed your lam first, then went back even shortly after and poured your UV. Even a minute diffence will show different on some colors especially flouros.
Next time just slightly cat your whole batch of UV instead of doing your lam as a seperate process.
Good data point. Thx
Next time I will do my lams as a separate step before hot coat. Live and learn.
Good on ya for posting your oops so others can learn.
Next you do some creative posca pen work around the logo to cover up.
Also… for a neat trick you can do 2 tone stripes… or abstracts etc that way.
Ancient Chinese secret…
Just slow cat the resin for your bands, stripes, etc. Let it soak then hit it with a higher cat full lam
I’m still learning a little something almost every board. I’m no artist so I usually avoid color work. This is just another kick in the pants reminder why.
Mix the UV in with all the resin, first then cat the under lam resin seperately.
Wrapped up this project this afternoon. I went to the hardware store and got a rattlecan of flourescent green paint, masked it off and sprayed it. Gave it 2 light coats. It didn’t come out too bad. I still need to coat it with acrylic but you get the idea.
Nice save Mako, digging that outline too. I had a similar fubar with my backyard green spray job last week on an amazingly similar board for my brother. Done a bunch of rail sprays over the past few years without problem but this time I decided to try the acrylic paint thinner they had at FGH instead of the usual. Probably operator error not the product but I had a bad feeling when I was spraying. The original plan was just green rails
No gloss coats for me, the black outline was done under the deck lamination and under the lap onto the bottom. 5’7 x 18 3/8 x 2 1/4 - Finished weight 5lbs 6oz without fins
I think it looks great. Very clean looking and well finished.
Your boards look professional. Beyond garage hack status. I like the way you blunted the nose and used clear resin to finish it off. Might have to plagiarize that idea. Mike
The board in this thread is a 5’5" x 18 7/8 x 2 1/8 for a 5’4 grom who weighs 110 pounds. This board was built for a surf trip and for bigger hollower days when he needs a little bit of a step up. He’s surfing it very well.
yeah I like to store boards on the nose, it’s gotta have glass not just a bead of resin though. I learned to cut the nose folds in a way that leaves a little hollow cone formed by the glass beyond the tip after laminatiing, you might see in the photo below. take a stir stick with a glob of gelled resin and roll it in there on one side then fill it so no bubbles get trapped in there. after hotcoat take your grinder and flatten it. sorry for the hijack Mako
Great stuff keepmit coming!
Great thread, lovin’ the grom pics, nice camera work!
and especially…
this shot - beautiful!
Its been a long winter but we are turning the corner. Haven’t built a board since the fall so I figured I’d update an old thread. The groms grow fast. This board was put to good use by my oldest son who quickly outgrew it. Now it is under the feet of his 11 year old little brother. By the way, that is Atlantic City in the background.
