Was glassing my board with uv cure resin, but I was using it as regular poly, not thinking I added twice the mekp I should have. The bottom seems fine but all along the rails it is just drip lines from the resin and I couldn’t get the lap to wet out. It’s curing right now, how should I go about fixing the rails?
Thanks
Dude yer screwed.
My guess would be mix up some resin and paint brush it over the laps. Try and get it in to the weave as much as you can. its very likely it will have bubbles and lots of imperfections in it but… Then go from there, its not going to be perfect but it should allow you to sand down the rough bits. Is it the first lam layer or the second side.
Unless its a boards thats done for a paying client just go with it and it should be fine to surf.
Just once I have had resin kick too fast, Once I realised that it was kicking too fast for me to complete the lam I pulled off all the semi-gelled fibreglass and resin, to my amazment it pulled off fine and clean… (it took some effort to pull it off the blank, but it worked and I just did the lamination again with slightly less catalyst)
Obviously what I just said won’t help you now, your best bet is to do what skatement said, it will probably make sanding a nightmare and you will probably have loads of sand-throughs where the cloth isn’t all laying flat around the rails, but at this stage just make the most of it, finish it as best as you can, and surf.
Boards just for me, was looking for the best way to go about making her still decently rideable. This was the bottom lam
Thanks for the help
mix up some more resin and finish the job as best you can
surfboard making is full of goof-ups and fix-its, all part of the game
Can’t see the whole thing but from what I can see, the good news is the parts that did get saturated appear to be tacked down pretty good.
Do what they say… mix up some more resin and try to get those dry areas saturated and adhered to the foam. Once that part has cured, give it a good looking over. Any areas that aren’t saturated and adhering to the foam, bubbles, etc can be carefully opened up with a razor blade or clean sandpaper and approached as if they were little ding repairs. Hit those with more resin and even a bit of cloth.
Cutting the laps is going to be tough… just do the best you can on that. Once the laps are cut, use a file, sandpaper or sanding disc to knock down any high spots before laminating the deck. You might consider at that point using an opaque pigment and try to do a clean cutlap on the bottom. I’ve seen pro glass jobs with an abstract acid splash bottom lamination zip-lapped at the rail (on purpose) and nicely covered by an opaque lamination from the other side. A clean pinline at the cutlap and it looked perfect… the zip-lapped abstract not detectable under the opaque lamination.
My big question though is why did you over catalyze UV resin with MEKP? The big advantage to using UV resin is to get the extra working time so this problem doesn’t present itself.
On the last board I built - the tape came off the deck at both the nose and tail when I was glassing the bottom. I was planning a cutlap.
Anyway, I “re-stuck” the tape by pressing and putting the resin/fiberglass over it - It made for a rough line on my “cut-lap”, but it worked out with some sanding… It’s my board and it isn’t pretty, but the board works great. 
You can see the jagged lines, but it actually looks fine finished:
wet out the dry bits with lam resin then paint some filler over your tape line. Grind it off and then you cover it all up with a really dark opaque. could be best option to hide a botch job.
maybe you did it on purpose, right? one of my attempts at shabby chic in otherwords lazy & can’t to do clean cut laps
Eh Bud.
Love those colors and Xcellent bottom spalsh!
How’s dis fer cut laps?
2nd go at the interga or bubble heaven (W/ cut lap).
yep mix a batch
and squeegee it in
it will be fine
make it a diffrent color
wow whadd’an effect
then hot coat it
then sand on the tape line
the slight diffrence in
thickness will make
the lap cut just swell.
this polyesther is quite forgiving
thats why the founding fathers
used it so much ,before they wrote
the constitution,or sold out
to Sportsways,
… ambrose…
big east big wind
