Well, it went about like I imagined. I laminated the bottom of my first board (a 5’11") fish this weekend (all I had time for). I used UV activated resin and everything (bottom, rails, nose) went fine until … the swallows. I had most of the natural light entering my shaping bay/garage shut off except one door and I had the tail of the board facing that way. End result was that the resin on the tail started kicking before the rest of the board. My laps on the inside of the swallows didn’t want to wrap around the sharp bottom edge very well and left bubbled/delaminated areas along portions of that rails in that area. My thought for fixing this area before laminating the deck is to sand/grind these delam’d areas until they are gone, then lam in a narrow (1 to 2 inch) strip of fiberglass along the inside swallow rails. Does that sound about right or are there any other suggestions?
Personally, I’d sand loosen laps away and glass deck as usual. Laps at non-central sections are almost strutcural useless (board will not snap at tail, hands will not grab at tail while duck-diving,…). Maybe useful if FCS or other fin system will be used??
Snap boards at first foot off the tail?? Air junkie!! Chill out, Coque, chill out…
Good waves last weekend? Blowing NW?
Bad conditions here in AC. I’m taking care of my “delam” hands after 3h of full-power windsurfing with new equipment 15days ago, so I couldn’t heat water, anyway.
My longboard is ready for cloth inlay. The most “hortera” cloth I could find, believe me.
You might try to cut the glass off with a razor that didn’t wrap flush with the bottom edge of the crack. Then flip it over and lam the deck. You can take rectangular strips and lam them in the curve of the butt crack. I like a couple of layers in there because the foam is so soft in that spot even though it is in a low impact region. Hope that helps. Mike
Hey Mike. Yeah, I cleaned up all the not-cleanly-laminated spots last night and am now left with some irregularly shaped “holes” along the inside edge of the swallows. Instead of laming over the whole edge, I think I’ll just wet some small pieces of glass cut to fit in the holes, sand it all smoothe, then lam the deck. I’m definitely learning some lessons the hard way, but the permanent way. Jim
It is nice to have a smooth surface to lam, over to eliminate any bubbles that may form as a result of having depressions where the other bubbles formed. In otherwords a little extra time will make for a better lam.
