Howzit Kensurf, Not necessarly jiggle but wavy pours. Actually I prefer a beautiful one color tint job. Abstacts are a lot easier to do since you don’t worry about the eveness of the tint which takes a better glasser to do. But what ever the customer wants he gets.Aloha,Kokua
I was getting ready to paddle out one afternoon on the board pictured here. This hot little chick walks up and tells me how cool my board looked. I told her thanks, but really, all I did was drink a bunch of cough syrup and paint it. She looked at me like I was green or something and I paddled out. I guess not everyone understands my sense of humor…
kokua’s right, as usual. A perfect light blue tint is more difficult than any swirl. One of my top-shelf laminator buddies won’t even
do an acid splash, ‘‘it’s too easy’’, he says. He’s more into artfully tapered laps and perfect cuts. I have no idea how he can cut
a whole lapline without one wobble but he does it with regularity. He also doesn’t want any pinlines covering those cuts.
Personally, I love a good splash and this thread has showcased some awesome work. I hope Kensurf has enough ideas now.
riomar (my other top-shelf laminator buddy) can do the acid/swirl/slob as good as anybody, maybe I can shame him into posting some pics?
Mike
Interesting. The guy that did these that Vader called Obie won kenobi is the opposite. He has Perfect tints so wired he’s bored with them. That’s why he’s doing all the crazy splashes…
imho glassing isn’t as easy as people try to make it sound and not as tough as you fear it to be.
the most important secret is to understand what it is you are trying to do when you build a board weather doing a swirl or hot coating, fin boxing, glass ons, sanding, pin lines and gloss. you need to understand resin and cloth.
when you build boards for a long time from the bottom up you can really aim for the top with experience and confidence, then you get to the point when you get some freedom to do “what you want”. things you never thought possible. become do able and i feel thats from understanding what it is you are doing.
all the glass work on his thread is amazing and we should keep sharing the stoke.
but im sorry i cant explain what i do. im just wing’in it!
i feel a ice tint of any color shows the capability of a shapers finish as well as the ability of the glasser and thats when its just getting started.
This is alomost embarrassing after seeing the posts from vader (sooooo sick, i can’t even look at it at work) but this was first attempt, not quite a resin swirl, acrylic on foam (corecell). mudded a bit more than i was hoping for. but fun to try.
After seeing this thread, I really feel that the custom glassers out there don’t have too much to worry about in regards to the “Asian Factor”…Very nice, ALL…