Ok you guys have convinced me to glass my own board, but I want to do a resin swirl. I can’t Find step by step instructions ANYWHERE! I dont see how people get a clean line on the deck, but I do know you do something with tape! So if someone could give me a link or just flat out tell me that would be great! Oh also what are 2 cool colors to do resin swirls with?
Thanks!
it would be great if someone could hel me out with that too. I have searched the archives but it confused me. A step by step would be great!
Thanks
newshaper,
For ther clean line search for cut laps. I need help on the resin swirl part
Hi Newshaper, This is what happened with my board,I was going for blue tint,lol. well there was pieces of the tint that didn’t seem to want to mix in.When I put it on it made what looked like a tye dye kinda thing. I had left some resine in the pot and mixed it a bit darker and put it on,now it was tye dye look with swirles in it.
Another (idea)would be to put on some clear then mix color and swirl it in. guess that would depend on the look your after.
Roostersurf
I hope that you understand clear then mix color with resin then swirl.
You might try a test first.
Good Luck,Roostersurf
Go to our website. Go to the longboard page and pick out the type of “Swirl” you are talking about and I will give you a step by step on that type of swirl. You do different steps for different types of swirls. Next time we do a swirl I will video tape it and post it.
wow, I really want to know how you do that red marble spash, (first board).
thanks so much,
darren steven
hey i went and looked ,very cool stuff you got going on there,real where you got the shark teeth and stuff sunk into the board…tints and swirls are greaT ,the one i really liked was that 9’ something one you called “wood mimic”,every time i see one with those colors i think of caramel vinilla swirl ice cream when it melts…what im getting at is i would really like to know what colors you use to get that effect
i dig the red with the black splash…nice work
Hit the archives, type in cut laps…and go back to the oldest ones(2002,2003 ect…) some great tips and tricks from the masters(Loehr,phillips,brucker…ect) . That is how you get the clean line…cut lap. Did my first one last night…no bleeds…super. Then type in resin swirls…same thing…go back a ways, good stuff. Two good colors are yellow and blue, my board came out sick,earthy green in between the blue ,yellow and white.After taping the deck I mixed my clear base with a half teaspoon of white, then mixed up two smaller batches of the colors( yellow,blue) of equal amounts. Once thoroughly mixed, I simply poured the yellow and blue into the base in circles…and went to town. Pouring patterns on the deck and letting it soak a second before squeeging. Came out great, I am trying to get some pics up at the moment. Read a ton…get a plan together(steps clear in your head) then go for it! Have fun…peace and waves…
Another good combination. Laminate with yellow pigment. Follow with splash of red pigmented and blue pigmented resin. Mine came out really neat(ingoring my other glassing foopahs). End up with red,purple, geen, blue, and yellow. I think. I’m a bit color blind. I’ll try to post it when my 13 year gets home from school today. Mike
just did my first resin tint - phew - alot of work - get your standard glassing technique down b4 you try the tint thing is my advice.
Here’s the yellow followed by red and blue. Not that hard. Hope is shows ok. Mike
Sorry, try again.
Hey you make some nice swirls. What is the secret? I like this one:
The Red Marble board is a true resin swirl. We followed the following steps to create what you see.
To prepare for the resin swirl you have to tape off the deck. Use a rail tool to mark off what size laps you are looking to create. With this board we used 3 inch laps.
Use 1/4 tape (makes nice bends) and follow the rail tool marks around the deck of the board. Use larger widths of tape to create about a border of tape about 3 inchs wide. We use 60 lb paper to finish off covering the deck. Be careful because if you let the resin stay too long on the paper it starts to bleed through.
Flip the board and prepare your fiberglass cloth. Again, we like the 8 oz volan because it seems to hold a lot of color. We also like the way the weave looks.
Next prepare the resin. For this board we use about 3-4 quarts of red tinted resin, 1 quart of black resin, and 1/2 quart of white resin. Yes that is a huge amount of resin but we found that to get the deep color with out “mudding” you have to flood all the glass before you start pulling with your squeegee.
We put the red in two different buckets to mix the colors easier. The first thing is fire off all buckets of color seperately.
Take one of the bucket of red and dump (slowly) 1/4 of the black in the red, then dump 1/4 of the white in that same red bucket. Now take a mixing stick and gently swirl all the colors together. Only swirl the colors two or three laps around the bucket.
Carefully dump 1/2 of the mixed bucket of red onto the board (How you dump it will effect the outcome). You only dump half the bucket because by the time you get half of it poured out you will run out of the accent colors (in this case black and white).
Take the left over 1/2 bucket of red and repeat dumping 1/4 bucket black in it, and 1/4 bucket of white. Stir gently 2 or 3 times and dump this on another part of the board.
Repeat steps 7 and 8 with the last bucket of red, dumping in open areas of the board.
By this time you whole board should be almost completely covered with the excess running down the rails.
*Hint- Through trial and error we have found that if you really want some good color on the rails splash the seperate colors individually before dumps.
Now comes the fun part, after you have given the resin a few minutes to soak in take your squeegee and pull the excess resin off the board onto the rails. This is when you get a peak at what your board is going to look like. The way you squeegee your board will also have an effect on the outcome of the swirl!
Finish off the board as you would any glass job. Pull all excess resin off the board and rails. The more excess resin you pull off the board the crisper the pattern of the swirl. Be careful not to pull too much off!
*hint- It helps to have extra squeegees to change them out so you don’t get too much mud on your rails.
Good luck and with your first try I would avoid the larger laps!
Hi TSaunders
Sorry to jump on the bandwagon but how did you do the wood looking one.
PS*Nice looking boards
Cheers
Yo “T” that was a darn good description.Did any of you guys catch the post from Cooperfish a few weeks ago about laying a layer of 4 ounce glass over the abstract before hotcoating it?It was a very subtle hint that maybe a lot of folks missed.Little things like this separate the men from the boys.That extra layer of 4 ounce is why the Cooperfish boards surpass anything on the planet.It gives the board more depth when you go to polish,thats why their boards look like mirrors.I have never tried it but a lightbulb went on when I read it.I was wondering if you guys caught the post and have tried it? RB
hey cleanlines almost all of our boards get a four oz. free lap on the bottom… strength, depth, weight for noseriders…cant go wrong with it.
Austin
Hey Cleanlines i read the post, and i thought it was a really good tip, so i tried it this same day because i was going to do some resin job on my fish.
I did the cut lap job on the deck (i had done the bottom job before) and then i laminate a glass layer with clear resin over the deck and rails, and it came out a lot nicer than the bottom. With this clear layer over the tinted lam, it has more light and nicer shine. It was my first time using resin tints but i noticed the difference. I still have to polish my board, so we’ll see…
I love Swaylocks.
