I have only done one resin tinted board before and tinted at the laminating stage it came out ok but I would like to do a tinted hotcoat with a design in it, is it a problem when sanding back and how will the resin sit on a taped edge as I do not want to pinline. the board will be glossed as a final finnish.
Tinted hotcoats are a bad idea. Sanding will make them look uneven at best and horrible at worst.
Answer: all the old 60’s boards with some color job on the deck have a little raised area where the resin color meets the board, you can’t get around it, but you can smooth it out with gloss a little. if you try to sand it down, you just thin out the color. And if you thin/sand out the color, you get a lighter color. On the flip side, if you let the resin puddle up in the tape edge you get a darker area to the outside of your tape job.
Just as Balsa said, tinted hot coats are a bad idea. One option: What you can do if you want some tinted look on the board is, go ahead and lam, hotcoat, sand the board as usual. Now tape off some racing stripes or something, make sure the tape is down real good, best to use some 3M fine line tape (expensive but worth it) mix up a batch of hot coat with your tint and paint it on your strip area, do it just like a big pinline. (make sure you use lots of colorant) When its the consistency of snot/peanut butter pull the tape. let kick, lightly sand…I said lightly. Now if you did a good job on the tape / pull it should be crisp and perfect, if not lay a pin line around the color and gloss / polish. Now you got a cool looking 60’s tint / strip job.
Unless your going to do a colored lam, colored hot coat, and a colored gloss, don’t try a full colored hot coat only. You’ll just sand through it, and then the whole ting will looked scrrrrewed.
-Jay
Seabeast,
As Resinhead mentioned, if you apply your artwork as resin it will be lifted slightly. In my picture below you will notice one of my boards with this type of artwork. Due to the fact that I am stuck in some time warp back in the early 70’s, this art style being lifted and all is fine by me, some can’t stand the surface being lifted a bit (all up to you dude).
Cody
Cheers for the replys guys I will probably abandon the idea i had and go with artwork with a light tint laminate over the top so the artwork is still clearly visable.
I agree with the other swaylockians you do get a slightly raised area where the colour is applied - this is offset some with the gloss coat. But i wouldn’t abandon the idea completely as the resin swirls and acid spashes are infinately more variable than using colour in the lam only !
Steve