While at Ben Franklin I ran into a bunch of this pre-printed washi or japanese rice paper…
So I thought to myself… why am I printing these silly put togethor images on rice paper when I can have all these beautiful patterns to cut out and layout on my board. Looks way easier to use than material.
Anyone use this stuff before?
and yes i’m gonna run my own test today when I glass another board (in epoxy)…
Finally…
some get your mind off of the clark panic photos
you NorCal guys… you probably recognize this big wave hell woman doing here thing at the Eddie.(Thanks to Jaime)
Luckily the city council turn down the idea to split up and develop this valley behind the lady on the beach. Yeah you though the mall and puamalu was a bad thing…It’s just starting up there cause of all $$$.
das pure Koa baby! … Da boys at the bay (Pohaku, Archie, Chuck)
Good idea! I was amazed of all the surfboard construction related stuff one can find at the weirdest places. I found 80 sheets of calligraphy rice paper at Marukai 99 Cents store at Windward Mall. I bought two packs and wished I bought more. The same stuff on EBay was going for at least $5. It was hard to tell what it was because it was labeled in Japanese. Now I must learn to use this with epoxy. Sorry about that. I am still hurting from the Clark Foam situation. I’ll get over it especially if you post more big wave hell women pictures.
that looks like the perfect thing to “decorate” the rails only, and NOT “violate” Bill Hamiltons patent which focuses on the structural strength increase from the addition of cloth. What do you think?
Howzit Thrailkill, Bill has leased his glass shop to another glasser and has somewhat distanced his self so I don’t know if he is still so hung up on the material rail fabric thing. Funnt story, a few years back I was doing a few sponge painted rail broards and one looked so close to his cloth rails that I was accused of using his technique. Boy were they surpized when they found out it was just sponge painted.Aloha,Kokua
Well I glassed some small test pieces under 4oz s-cloth on a scrap piece of 2lb EPS using FH 2-1 epoxy…
I don’t understand it but they came out hard as a rock with no air bubbles and the glass won’t lift off( I wonder why my epoxy/balsa/sando boards don’t feel this stiff) . The paper was alot stiffer than what I would’ve expect from rice paper maybe it was the ink…I was worried that the resin wouldn’t saturate through but I guess it did…
Here’s some cheap shots as they say…
I figure just cut out shapes out of the paper and lam them on. Animals, symbols, even cut them in strips and use them as rail bands like Bill said but lining them up would be a challenge.
Any takers? Maybe santa’s your friend this year…
Apologies to the guys who santa already vistied this year if I had found out about this I would’ve asked Santa to include it on his run thorugh your chimney. They are a bit pricey probably $35.00 (for 2 packs of 24"x38") to get enough paper to cover an entire deck or bottom of a 6 footer.
Anyway that’s the update…
Now if I could just finish off these last two boards before my vacation is over…
Oh yea discovered the joy and simplicity of doing an Epoxy/Balsa skinned EPS glassed, hotcoated and glossed with UV. Yesterday I completed both sides of a 9’2" in half a day including lam, hot coat and sand for final. Had to make a run today for regular finishing resin and styrene so I could make some fo Kokua’s secret sauce…
Once the wood goes on the EPS with Epoxy and 4ox/6oz you can finish it with anything and UV cure is simply a damn fast and easy to use process…
