I think Im beginning to understand all this information.
best yet is to have more than enough color blend to cover the surface before the squeegie hits the board
Im guessing that as you pour the colored resin you maybe jiggle as you move down the board to achieve
more of a swerly effect
those cooperfish boards are the product of masters
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
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
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…
This hot little chick walks up and tells me how cool my board looked.
Oh well, at least you gave us a pic of the board…
I like tints, and clears, too, especially really fresh white, sculptural, durable good shapes.
Here you go Benny. Thanks for the nice words.
Here is the finished bottom of the Sugar 5 fin…
Came out great, Smokey. Got one of the top, too?
Thanks
It’s still got melted wax/sand and some sort of funky leaf debris on it from Panama. I’ll clean it off tomorrow and take some shots.
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.
so bring on the ice tints no pinlines .
WE eat um up!
Hey DARTH, no dis intended, you guys are the best in the business at what you do.
You pretty much kill ANY color work. With light-sabers. (couldn’t resist)
You got it right on the shaper’s responsibility to get the tints a chance, we’d rather fine sand for clears,
or better yet, not fine sand at all for opaques. I’ve been cussed more than once for my stringer chews
and scratches. Jim tried to teach me right, but all the other stuff I learned from the wizard made me spend
so much time there was none left for scratch removal.
with full-on respect,
Mike
Quote:This hot little chick walks up and tells me how cool my board looked.
response option2 " i've got plenty more back at my place i'll show you 'the quiver' , if you like ?''
so bring on the ice tints no pinlines .
WE eat um up!
Humbly submitting this one… Kokua is so right: light blue and water green are the real challenge.
just another day at the deathstar
Quote:Quote:This hot little chick walks up and tells me how cool my board looked.
response option2 " i’ve got plenty more back at my place i’ll show you ‘the quiver’ , if you like ?‘’
To keep it on topic: "You’ve seen my swirls, whaddya say you show me your tint job? yuk yuk
Oh, and Darth, insane stuff again!!!
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.
even when they mudd out they are still cool looking
dig it: this thread is about 2 weeks old, and has almost 17000 views. Good one.
Space is the place
With a little halloween thrown in for good measure
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…
