hey silly
just another day at the office?
nice colors and polish
keep on posting
thanks ken maybe i can put my prices up a bit and then it could be my day at the office. same to you btw. loving your colour work
silly
did you tints or opaques?
or ???
colors poped great!
just finished my 1st incut experiment, and there’s a hint of swell for the weekend, stoked!
5’8" x 21 1/2x 2 3/4, or thereabouts…
this one is all 4oz, glassed with a high performance(oooooooooh!) race boat isophalic polyester resin, and silmar gloss. All the color is done in the lam, which was 3 parts. Still super light, even with the pink tinted wood keels…lol
can’t wait for some water time!
royal, that is a really cool idea, the board looks great. i like it, i was actually in the middle of one like that just different colors.
hey ken i used normal paint tinters from a house paint shop. they pump it out of the pumps into small containers for me. that green was a lucky score it didnt look like much in the tin , dark and earthy , but as soon as i added yellow, WOW. its an emerald colour really. anyway its called “phthalo green”. i used cobalt in all the colours to get an even kick . had problems with yellow this time i must not have added the cobalt to the yellow. it get so confusing with all these buckets of colour everywhere, i have got a clearer picture about pours now after this board and results. i guess you could say that was still very experimental. still need to use more resin.LOTS MORE RESIN… also green as a single tint is tricky it only gives you a few passes with the squeege imo before things start to look streaky
i think pours need to trail off in tapers more and have more folds …
also im so used to laminating from stringer to rail . it gets confusing maybe sometimes as vertical grader pass may be better, but it seemed to get muddy last time i did that. also you need a couple of squeeges or a towel to clean it or you get line marks
i think you really cant use to much resin. maybe 2 to 3 liters a side for a fish is not excessive. that way your not trying to save resin when passing stringer to rail. maybe let it soak in and drag it out in one pass.
or possibly brush/pour , and lightly pass out to laps without working it then pour a big buket of overcat clear on top for hard passes lengthways
fucks me i wish i knew
what i think is you need a mate. basically cover every inch of the board with a pour. with mate cat resin as you go. less cobalt abd cat in early pour and more in later pours. work fast. then perhaps a vertical stringer pass then hard pulls out to the rails round the clock
who does vertical grader passes on colour. i would think it would end up pretty muddy by the rail?
I do. I rarely do rail-to-stringer squeegee pulls on swirls… that’s a mess. Lightly wet out your rails while pouring, (try holding the cloth lap horizonal w/ squeegee) and they won’t be so muddy. First color down wins. Yes multiple clean sqeegees at hand, and/or wipe them off (I do that a lot.) 2-3 liters per side for a fish? To me that’s way too much, and wasteful even for a longboard. Resin swirls are cool, but they are an art form, I think. There’s no right and wrong, just appealing and less appealing. I don’t brush anything when lamming. Having a helper can be good, too.
hey keith… i laminate this way in clears because it uses very little resin and no creases in the cloth. it gives a really tight lam
also i have nice laps that are not resin soaked i bring the laps over with the squeegee parrallel to the rail.
my clears are very clean now , i heard that a pro glasser said to a client my clears were high standard.
but yeah for colour maybe not
it makes sense to do it this way though because you would have less mixing of colour
when i do single colour tints i do vertical grader passes to minimize streaking
i think i used about 1.5 to 1.8 liters for that longboard bottom and could have used some more for better patterns. the more resin you use the less MUD and the more the colours seem to pop. i think vertical passes would be useful for vertical patterns if you do a fill colour over the top of your swirls. but perhaps a bit limiting for design and art concepts
not that i know what im doing mind you. but reasonably happy with result
silly,
your resin work looks good to me. Glossing alone looks top notch, which is the toughest for me.
Pours are funny, and while I’m not an expert, I use almost double the resin of a single color lam. Seems best to pour it on, then take a wide squeegee and spread it lightly over any clean cloth, then let it soak for a minute. Wash the squeegee, or have others on stand by, and do one long pull nose to tail - always the same way as I work it out to the rails - with the squeegee at about 60*. That seems to pull out excess, but also leave a little so it stays deep looking.
If I hold the tool upright, it seems to dry the cloth too much, and I end up with drainage/thiin looking areas. Mind you, the silmar we get in the UK isn’t the same aqua blue you guys have in the US. Ours has a lot less styrene due to EU emission regulations and is dark blue, so it is nowhere near as runny/watery without adding loads of styrene - which defeats the purpose a little, hey EU?!
anyway, my 2p from the nut shed, and love that green too!
thanks rob. it pretty hard to gloss now because of winter. almost impossible really
"Seems best to pour it on, then take a wide squeegee and spread it
lightly over any clean cloth, then let it soak for a minute. Wash the
squeegee, or have others on stand by, and do one long pull nose to tail
- always the same way as I work it out to the rails - with the squeegee
at about 60*. That seems to pull out excess, but also leave a little so
it stays deep looking."
thats basically how i laminate in clears . but for swirls and colour art im thinking idont want to drag resin with a squegee anywhere very much. unless i have in my mind clearly what it will look like. .
Patience!
Royal, your tints and (especially) your shapes look unreal!
ran out of tape and used 3m scotch tape and my colour bled on the laps like a muthafckr. buggered up a clear as well.
what a drag
also got this pretty good swirl and used this lemmon yellow tinter on a section and the swirl was awsome except for this section down the middle that looks like mud
curses
and i thought i was top shit
heres one im just finishing just gotta pinlines and gloss it
came out nice lots of detail
i switched from using paint tints to pigments about 2 years ago, I wouldnt switch back the tints come out much clearer and with more detail.
here are a few i did over this last long week of work, feels good to be home and finished for the weekend.
6’0" fish for benefit party in SF
i call this one the magic carpet- 6’2" squash tail w/ glass-on TP fins, custom order
i call this one squirell on acid
a keeper. it really does go like a squirell on acid
