Can anyone tell me how this look is done? I think its a coloured lam then coloured hot coat sanded to desired effect then a gloss coat over. Is this true? I’ve also heard it’s better to put a thin clear coat between the lam and hot coat is this necessary and if so do you add wax to the clear resin or just leave it. Any help would be great.
Hi -
I haven’t heard about the clear coat in between. If you use contrasting pigments, a stiff squeegee on the fill coat/hot coat should reveal as much of the under color as you want… I.E. more exposure = more pressure on the squeegee.
Several guys use squeegees to apply the fill coat with epoxy resin. Some guys add some bulk stuff like micro balloons/cabosil to their fill coats. The infamous MrJ squeegeed epoxy ‘bog’ over his vacuum bagged lamination in one of his notorious asymmetrical builds way back when. I’d love to hear what happened to him… he seems to have disappeared.
He had some pin hole issues so that should be taken in to account. I think a generous hand lamination would nip that problem in the bud - in other words a slightly ‘wet’ layup likely wouldn’t have any pin holes to worry about in the first place. An agressive vacuum pressure with absorbant layer will often suck a lot of resin out and leave pin air in the laminate.
Bob’s going to need some points to holler back…
If you use the search function and type in ‘hipster jean hot coat’ you get:
http://www.swaylocks.com/forums/how-and-what-beautiful-resin-tint
and
http://www.swaylocks.com/forums/how-resin-done
There are a few ways to skin this cat. John’s ideas are used by some . Others use a variation. This can also be done with latex paint . The variations are endless. I’m not a big fan of the look primarily because some of them come out so butt ugly.
McDing, yes they do.
all the best
haha no offense but i thought i was looking at a severed finger or skinned fish or something for a second.
Looks like the stuff they do on “shabby chique” furniture. Been around for years…just like growing beards. Yawn
Gotta go…I see a VW van on Craigslist for $30 grand.
Tinted Lamination. Squeeggee coat of lamination resin on top of Cured lamination (no surfacing wax). This step is optional but squegge coats never hurt. Let the squegge coat cure then do your pigmented hotcoat. When you sand the hotcoat, you will sand more of the hotcoat away near the laps and any fibergalss patches you put over the logos/laminates. This will give it that unique look. Then gloss as normal. Good luck!
LOL, that’s a STEAL! You can flip it for $75,000 after you’ve washed it…
Jeff McCallum´s style, everybodys now. He moved on and good luck keeping up. I only do this by accident, oversanding yellow laps over black lam. not recommended, haha
I don’t know how it’s done…I have some ideas…
Don’t name surf spots…mix some color , do some sanding…figure it out…
White pigment in the lam resin over black carbon looks alright. Add white plus microballoons to the fill coat to make the white more opaque. Sand to suit.
