Got a quick resto question for anyone in the know. I have a 65 Hansen with orig paint on the bottom. The other day I accidentally sat it down on a rag w/ some acetone on it. Although it did not touch the paint it did touch next to it. Oddly enough it ate away some of what I can only assume is clear coat. I took a blade to it and sure enought there is some thin layer of clear on the bottom of the board that is clearly old and yellowed. Here then is my question…did Don use a clear of some kind to seal the paint on his boards in the 60s, or did someone spray it on in hopes of perserving the paint? At any rate it looks like a well done factory job. Any one with info on the topic…please help a brother out.
Back in the old days (60s) everything colorwise was pretty much done with resin. Comp stripes and such were done with pigmented resin on the sanded glass job and then finished with a coat of gloss resin. Basically the same way you’d do resin pinlines. A lot old board you find nowadays have had some “home done” color work with spray paint usually to cover up a ding repair or just an amaturish attempt to refurbish or decorate the board. Spray painting with water based acrylics on the sanded surface and glossing over it (instead of using brushed on resin) did’nt start happening till about the mid 70s. I believe that the acetone ate thru the gloss in your case.
As noted above, unless someone did paintwork on the board later, ALL color work was done with pigmented resin, and a clear resin gloss coat over the color coat. The only paint I ever saw at the factory, was on the walls.
As has been mentioned, they were never painted. Maybe some, later, had the spray-on slip-chek added ( horrible stuff) to the deck…not the bottom… but that’s about it.
So, this might be a Real Good Time to buy a gallon of acetone.
I thought the same as you guys did, but I happend to have it with me when I was at the Bing/Jacobs factory and Matt Calvani and Hap took a look at it. They believed that the paint was orig. In addition, when you take off a small section of the paint you will find that the place where you removed the paint is bright white, unlike the yellowish areas that surround it. Also, some of the old price lists I have seen for Hansen boards I think say “painted stripes extra”. That could still be resin but I can’t be sure. But the stripes had to have been put on when the board was manufactured or shortly after. The stripes are also in the Hansen colors. Again, I hesitate to acetone it because I fear having bright white stripes on the bottom. With regards to the coverup a ding issue, the stripes just are not that wide. See the link to the pic in my previous post.
Ahmm- no. You see, where the paint was put on, the sun didn’t go. And so the foam didn’t get broken down by UV light and turn yellow. That bright white you’re seeing is how the board looked when it was brand new.
Now, looking at http://members.cox.net/stropes/Hansen/bot.jpg - what I see is a pretty basic Hansen, a few dings and a few other things. But those tapered stripes - never saw anything like those before. And unless my eyes decieve me, the painting wasn’t an especially good job.
Now, the way they did it, back in the day, was this:
The board would be glassed and hotcoated, sanded and then masked to the stripe outline, or nose areas were also common. And, of course, pinlines, which were an art form in themselves.
Then, some colored/pigmented opaque hotcoat resin would be laid on with a brush, tape removed and then that would all be glossed over. That’s why on so manyof those older boards with that detail they’d have a kind of bulge on the edges, where the gloss transitioned from hotcoat to stripe or pinline or what have you.
And not just high-end custom boards like that Hansen, but even popouts - while I have seen a couple of Dextras with what appears to be painted racing stripes or whatever, doing it in resin was the case in all the custom boards I have seen.
My call? somebody futzing around, back in the day, maybe with some paint to match his car or something. They did stuff like that back then.
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Whats up Doc,
I am not sure what the “Aammm, no” is in reference to but as I said in the quote above “the stripes had to have been put on when the board was manufactured or shortly after” due to the bright white orig board color underneath. Did you read the post??? And actually, the stripes are very well done, they have just worn over time They are almost perfectly masked lines. There is actually a third interiour stripe that has completely faded away that was probably red as red pigments of any kind, in general do not seem to hold up as well over time. As for resin pin lines, comp bands etc… I know how those are applied, my question was simply if anyone knew anything about painting a board being common at all and how to deal. If it was resin, I would not have bothered to post in the 1st place Doc.