wow thanks ! Page number 150,,,,,if ya can help at all? Something about that boards colour way & design....can't get it out my mind at the moment - you know how it is !!!
Thanks sauce. Hey, if you have an opaque color squeegeed in, and then pull CLEAR over it, does it muddy up at all? Asking only because I’m getting ready to glass tomorrow(hopefully) and am looking to do a
thanks for that,,
I may have the #r's around my pile of papers. If not I have a good fish template that is smokin .. it works great as a quad
where you at?
Cleveland Browns fish; orange tint and resin bands , and ice blue tint on the Barrel Hound with squeeky clean cutlaps.
This one is for all the nay-sayers who said that doing a resin tint on my second board was a bad idea… Once I’m done sanding I’m going to pinline/band it and finish with a gloss coat
I agree with the nay-sayers. The board should still work though.
Obie won and I met up a few weeks back and this is some of what happened
Hello Shushka420...
"This one is for all the nay-sayers who said that doing a resin tint on my second board was a bad idea... "
Screw the nay sayers.........Go for it! Right??? !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Good job kid. I'm glad you went for it!
Did you learn anything? Do you see anything that happened unplanned??? Are you thinking about the next project? and where you can go from there????? It's a crazy mixed up world out there....
Here's my latest epoxy job....fun stuff...........Stingray
I did! I learned that:
- If you want your colors to be opaque, keep adding pigment to the resin until you think to yourself "man, that's maybe too much pigment"... then add like 50% more (mine were still a bit translucent)
- Even when you pigment the shit out of resin, don't assume it will actually retard the process (this is especially true when your mentor is of the oldschool "eyeball the catalyst" measurment generation)
- Make sure you work as quick as you would a non-pigmented batch (I missed cleaning up the rails and a couple spots on the deck, so there was a bit of pooling that needed to be dealt with)
- Don't cheap out on your tape for the cut-laps... the cheaper it is the more it bleeds pigment
- Make sure you keep your rail laps long when doing cutlaps, when you get to the shorter spots the glass just tends to slip off the tape/paper
- When using glass-in fin systems like the FCS Fusion system, make sure you do your "football" patches at the same stage as the bottom lam... if they cure before you hit the board with pigment, they will show through
Most importantly, don’t listen to what anyone else says unless it’s positive tips or suggestions - I will admit there’s plenty that could have gone wrong, but the fact of the matter is it didn’t. Just because one commenter doesn’t like my pattern, doesn’t mean it didn’t come out exactly how I wanted, if not better (if you go back a couple pages you’ll see I posted a photoshop mock-up of the proposed tint)
The fun unexpected part was the way the purple and teal blended into a tie-dye style streak from under the blob. I’m stoked the way the mixed and wrapped up onto the deck around the nose.
Next time, I’m gonna try to get a little more artsy. I’ll kick my batches slower and see if I can’t make some cool abstract art - I was thinking maybe I’d make a big crazy bat with red eyes or something using squirt bottles and then drag it all downward towards the tail to make it smear. I’m just so excited with the way the resin and pigment work together, I’m bursting with ideas for my next board. I really don’t see why I would ever want to spray paint a blank when this is a million times more fun and unpredictable
yes! Fuc yeah! oh yeah....we need some freesh blood around here......Go for it.....mix it up!
and at the end of the day.....have a good time.....go surfing.........
Sush… Do your footballs AFTER the lam. that way you can avoid the color saturation of the patches. I do mine right before hotcoating the bottom
Hmmm, this seems like a way better idea to me, kinda like how I do the logos over the pigmented glass… doesn’t effect the strength of the install at all? I only did it this way per the stupid instruction booklet provided by FCS (though I see where it woudln’t matter on a clear board)
Yep.
Wow this is an awesome thread,pure inspiration guys. I have just looked back over the last 30 pages!! Some amazing stuff. This is my second attempt with epoxy pigment & really pleased at how it came out. learned loads & had good response from folk who have seen it. Keep the pics coming please. Slanj
Yours Aye.
Spey! Thats super classy for an epoxy swirl! I hope youre proud of yourself!
Interesting board, I cant quite see, but is it an agressive fish? Kind of an alpha-male-retro-wife-beater-twin-keel-fish?
Cheers Marty,it’s 6’3"x21.5"x2.7" my only performing fish for me at least! This is the only other pic I could find from my phone,i have some more on the camera at home! I have not spent much time on her yet. Been out twice,i had some trouble on my backhand but 4 beautiful lefts in 5-7ft clean conditions my first trip out and loved it,came in grinning like a total idiot. I should point out it was -3 and dinging doon with snow. It’s my smallest board to date,i’m 5’8" & 195lbs without 6mm of neoprene on! I have Monday & tues off and the forcast is sweet. Happy days.
Really does look good Spey! Is that Spey as in Inverness neck of the woods? East coast this time of year takes the grit of a real man…thats why I’m only back to NE in May ;o)
I’m just fettling the last parameters on a 6’ x 22" quad fish I’m about to work on. Just wondering if you put much Vee in the back 2ft?
Marty
Cheers Marty,thanks for the kind comments. Yes im 60 miles from Inverness at Tugnet. Lots of family from Lewis so i’m over there as much as possible where work & family time permit! Been unlucky with the weather my last 4-5 trips out it’s been hail or snow. Do you get up north often through the summer? Anyway I have a double concave stopping just in front of fins and slight vee,less is more & all that in last 20" My last fish was 6’5"x 22" quad & I kept it flat through fins and tail! A real mush buster. Slanj
Yours Aye,
“alpha-male-retro-wife-beater-twin-keel-fish?”
Can I use that? I just might pencil it onto a board I’m glassing if it won’t violate your copyright!!