I added some white, house paint to some lam resin just to see how it would react. The resin kicked and everything seemed normal. If I was to do this on a blank would it delam? Is there other ways to tint or opaque the resin with out using “resin pigment”. Like maybe dye from berries or other type of paints. Does pigment powder mix just as well? Thanks. Mikey
As far as house paint and berry juice i couldn’t tell ya’ but i have used tudors model paint to tint resin but not in a large scale like a resin swirl just on dings.
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Brandon
Dont know if this is much good to you, but Iv seen a few done that use’d car paint to tint the resin. Thay came out pretty tasty.
John
well those are some very original ideas mikey. i have never tried the house paint or mixed berry resin tint before. you could save a few bucks, but in my opinion it wouldnt really be worth it. resin tint from foam ez and fiberglass supply is like 8 or 9 bucks for a small jar and it will do a few surfboards.
While the pigments and the tints tend to be much the same, the vehicle ( whatever resinous or oily substance is involved in the paint itself) may cause ya troubles. Whether it’s oil base, acrylic, latex or lacquer, you dunno what is gonna happen, resin bonds weakened or what have ya.
Now, if you want to make white, you might try adding some titanium dioxide to a small amount of uncatalysed resin to make a ‘glop’ .
http://www.titanium.dupont.com/
Or ask at your local paint store - chances are they will have some sort of pigment available that you can mix into the resin pretty harmlessly. I have been using it for years with good results.
hope that’s of use.
doc…
Thanks for the quick response guys. Greebo, I’m going to look into the car paint. Doc, do the paint stores do custom pigment colours like matching their paint chip samples? Thanks.
Thanks for the quick response guys. Greebo, I’m going to look into the car paint. Doc, do the paint stores do custom pigment colours like matching their paint chip samples? Thanks.
Hi Mikey,
I’d imagine they could have a shot at it, but what with resin drying different than say, latex semi-gloss, I dunno just how close you’d get, might be better off playing with the stuff some and taking fairly careful notes as to ratios and so on. The paint stores have formulas they work from: 3 of pigment A, 1.5 of pigment B and 2 of pigment C to get gallon’s worth of color #2143 using a neutral base, that sort of thing. You can probably look at the color card/chip cards at the paint store amd have a good place to start from.
What I did find, doing repairs on older stuff, is that straight paint store pigment tends to be a pretty good match for straight ( and more expensive) resin pigments, at least for the older stuff.
hope that’s of use
doc…
My friend who has sold house paint in oahu since the 70s said a very very well known shaper would frequently bring damaged valuable boards in to the store and they would match the color with latex and hed fix em flawlessly. Noone ever knew. I dont know what else he did to em but apparently latex has a place in higher end repairs. And im thinking if they were dings these boards were being ridden. Not just wallhangers.
i use paint tint all the time. not actual house or automotive paint, but the tint that the paint shop mixes with a base substrate to make the catalogue colours. I don’t think you want to put actual paint in your resin though.
With the tint i have blue, red, yellow, black and white and just mix them to get the colours I want. you only need a few drops for a cup of resin for the colour to come through.