Hi.
Yesterday I lamed the deck of my new board. Between one thing and another i’ve ended up with a small patch where the glass has not bonded on to the foam. It’s about the size of my hand.
Any advice on how to fix this. Should I take a razor blade and carefully cut out this patch and re glass the area or ???
Any advice would be welcomed
Brian
Brian without seeing it I can only take a guess at it? If its in a bubble stage you can slit it open very carefully, inject some lam resin, lay some wax paper down over it, and put a ziploc bag of sand over the top of it to hold it down. And then you could cover it with a patch of glass if it’s close to the rail for strength. If it’s just a dry spot, where you didn’t let the glass saturate out enough before pulling the resin off, a lot of times when you hot coat this will somewhat resaturate the glass enough to help clear the glass out. And then lastly, you could do sugery and cut the glass out…but if you hit the foam, your going to have a frankstein looking hole in your beautiful foam shape. Unless it’s a real mess I wouldn’t recommend grinding or cutting it out or anything like that, your just going to mess up the blank and get really pissed off.
If its on the deck, and will be covered with wax, just finish it up, ride it, and chalk the glassing snafu up as a learning experience. It won’t hurt the running of it none. The next one will be that much better. Remember to really work the resin all around the board before you start to press with the squeegee and lay down the lam. And kick the resin off a little slower than so you don’t have to panic and get sweat in your resin…sweat & resin don’t mix very well.
-Jay
How the fix will look depends on whether the lam is clear or colored. If it’s tinted or clear, whatever you do will be magnified when the board is finished. If it’s an opaque color lam, patches are less visible if you do them right. If the saturated cloth has hardened, count on patching. Slitting, weighting down, or rewetting only works while the lam is still flexible.
You also want to be real careful using waxpaper on a Lam coat. You could end up with wax on the lam coat and then your hot coat will not stick.