ok last pinline i did was around where my lap came onto the deck from the bottom. i did it after i sanded my hot coat and used pigmented resin , then i put some hotcoat on top of the line and sanded it as smooth as possible without going through the line,… in some spots i can still sort of feel the line…because it seems difficult to get the pinline very thin without seeing through it… well the question is ,is this the right way to do it?, and would it be possible to use paint for the line instead of resin, or is that a bad idea? oh yeah any body ever visit the surfermag message board? what the hell happend there!?
I’m an oldtimer and like the classic FEEL of the pinstripes, besides the look. They SHOULD bump up just a little, so you feel it when you grab the rails. You did it the old fashioned way, and have to leave it a little thick to cover the crooked lap.
The new guys just spray or brush acrylic onto the sand coat, and it comes out thinner, but still needs a seal coat of gloss.
to me it also seems like even though its only a small line around the rails , isnt it better to have layers of resin bonded together than to have a layer of paint seperating the the two resin layers…cause if this dosent make any difference , then next time i would just use acrylic paint…just seems easier but maybe not as good?
Hey Have,
I do the pinlines both ways, with flat acrylic paint, Delta, Liquitex, Apple Barrel etc. the resin soaks through the paint and bonds with the hot coat pretty well. Yeah you can still sand through it, but once it kicks off I think it is as durable as a resin pinline. Actually, if you accidentially bump or drag something through a resin coated acrylic pinline when it is still wet, it will smear just like a resin pinline. They both take a lot of extra time to get perfect, and both have there advantages and disadvantages.
-Jay
Nothin like tactile feel of a triple pinline, 1/4" apart, with accents, wider nose and tail lines, when you pick up your board.
I use gloss resin for pinlines.It has wax added so after pulling the tape you lightly sand it with !80 grit by hand following up with red scotchbrite to get all the shiny spots out.Gloss and polish.You will feel a bump but thats OK.One thing about using gloss resin is that it will buff on out just fine if you happen to burn through the gloss while polishing.I learned this in 1965 and it is the way we did them in factories.THere is actually a window of opportunity where you can gloss the board without sanding the pin but I only did that when I was doing lots of boards per day and time was of the essence.