Sorry if this has been done before. Tried the archives to no avail. I’m planning a double sided pigment color scheme. The bottom will be orange and the top will be green. Sorry to hurt your mind’s eyes… The top lam will be a cutlap with pins on the bottom. Just wondering if the orange would show through the lime green at all and if I could freelap the first lam. Thanks!
I wouldn’t free lap the bottom lam… unless your deck lam will be super deep and opaque. Usually, you’ll see the free lap line on the deck lam, because pigmented resin will pile up against the lapped edge and look darker then the rest of the deck. It will take more time, but why not lam the deck first in green, cut lap on the bottom, single layer, then do an inlay on the bottom in orange. Then do a clear freelap second layer on the deck, overlapping the where your cut lap and inlay edges meet on the bottom? Hotcoat or baste, then plinline.
I did a neon lime green and tangerine once, and it looked really cool… 80s throwback colors.
Came here to say the same thing. Check my post history, I made a thread asking about the same process as NJ describes, only using tint. Not too hard, just more time consuming. You certainly could do different color pigments both sides as you originally outlined, but I’de be concerned about the darker color showing through the lighter on the rails. But hey, it might give an interesting effect…
you should cutlap both sides. Any resin that hits the underside when lapping will change the color of the white blank and show through when you flip it to do the otherside. Even opaques will show through using the colors you describe.
Are you using opaque pgments or tints?
Why do a blue bottom (tint) and then a yellow deck( tint) . Should get a cool effect with a green rail.
I recently pulled a black 6oz opaque deck over an opaque white bottom and under close inspection you could see the white through the weave.
Good Luck!
Why would anyone want a black deck? Gotta be the worst color possible if you want your wax to stay put. That is, unless you only surf in Alaska but not in the Summer.
I live in the Northeast USA, and any black logos, etc on a deck causes wax to melt.
nj_surfer hit it right on the head. It’s just a reverse layup. Do it and you’ll be happy with the result.
Thanks for the advice! Would there be a difference in strength in the reverse layup method and regular method?
Negligable difference in strength. The only thing you don’t have is the bottom lapping around the deck rail. But you do have the first and second deck lams wrapping around the rail all the way to the bottom.
Ide do everything as NJ described, but when I did my reverse layup, I wrapped an additional layer of clear 4oz (or even 6oz) back to the top as well, overlapping everything, instead of relying on the 2nd layer of cloth from the top to overlap the bottom cutlap/inlay border. In my eyes, it made for a smoother transition at the laps and gave some aided strength to the rails. Minimal weight gain. But I like heavier boards, so im not concerned with an extra lb or two.
Playing with different colors top and bottom can be lots of fun, especially with tints. Just like Pico said, a blue bottom with a yellow deck will give you green rails. This one I did some time ago with blue deck and pink bottom and the rails turned out somewhat light purple:
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But green and orange will probably combine into something brownish… depends whether you like that or not.