once it has kicked so the resin is tacky and the cloth doesnt move…then you can trim it.
Wow…i just went through every post in this thread and my jaw is hanging loose. i am in awe of what some of you guys can do. gives me something to work for and realize how far off i really am. awesome thread, absolutely awesome.
many a good craftsmen here
Free lap first then cut lap for the deck lam. No extravaganza, just tried to get a emerald green from different pigments. No pinline as customer command.
Chacal, show us some larger pics, these are too small (and the quality of your work can easily stand larger pics).
did that freelap give an uneven tint?
no 'cause it’s opaque.
Masterpieces from mastercraftmen here on the post make me shy.
Don’t be shy, Chacal. We all know what you are worth. Nothing you shouldn’t be proud of. Oh yeah, larger pictures, please. And some of your fine pinlines work, too.
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no 'cause it’s opaque.
AHHHHH, I see
Thought I’d throw in a couple pics of a basic tint job we did for a demo board, nothing extravagant but occasionally less is more.
ok heres my latest
still need to hotcoat and polish
OK, here’s my second resin swirl. I followed masking advice above. I also only pulled the resin from center to rail once per section. I didn’t use any accelerator. The resin swirl looks much better than my first attempt. I do have a problem. Some of the glass is a little loose and not in contact with the foam. I’m thinking that I need to vacuum bag a little resin over the resin swirl. The cut lap was still a bit of a problem. The masking job was pretty good, but when I tried to pull up tape that was trapped under the glass some of the threads pulled and broke loose from the matrix.
The tape job
Just glass - no gloss
lo rez pic of my friends eberly twin fin with deck glosssed full spread coming soon.
hes a charger fan!
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your polisher has it easy, with a gloss coat that perfect
he should be buying the sander lunch
well beachy sand and beachy poloishes so he wants to make things easy on himself.
the board is blue tint bottom with a white opaque deck asymetrical cutlap top and bottom, i learned from obiwon and the pinlines and bolts were applied by Mark Townsand(amazing crafstman) shooting the bootom gloss right now and im going to polish tonight so my friend can hae it this weekend.
out of all the board iv built its my favorite and im not even a charger fan
Ive noticed that the tape line is slightly below center rail
or is that an illusion?
That is boooful, man! Did you do the bolt in the cut-lap? Riomar told me about doing those when he glassed for Lightning Bolt.
Always a good idea to have the polisher do his own glosses, I noticed the glosses came out better when the same guy
has to rub them out. Funny how that works.
Go Chargers! Except for when they’re playing the Dolphins (as soon as we have a team again)
its a bolt cut lap like too inlays butted up to each other asymetricaly. and then clear capped it all 4os S except the clear cap and i think theres pics of it before it was fin’d and sanded a few pages back in the thread.
beach sands real flat and doesnt get a lot of wahoos in his sands so the glosses come out flat cause resin only mimics whats inder it.
i glossed this one. glossing again cause its slow and if no one shows up tomarrow ill be polishing too.
the bottom.