First of all let me say that this site has been a god send! You guys have given me so much more confidence on my first board. It’s a 10’X19"X24"X15"X3.25" by the way, that ought to float my 240lbs. butt fairly nicely. I had initially intended to leave it with just a sanded finish but my laminating job was so bad that I had to do a lot of filling and sanding with the hot coat. I got all the bumps out but now it looks pretty sad. I have decided to go ahead and put on a gloss finish, since the hot coat before sanding looked so good. I would like to avoid having a board that ways 1000 pounds so my question is: can I thin out the gloss coat resin with acetone? It seems to me that putting on the thinest layer possible would be ideal. Would adding a solvent to the resin completely screw up the resins ability to gel? Thanks in advance and please bare with me if this is a ludicris idea.
First of all let me say that this site has been a god send! You guys have > given me so much more confidence on my first board. It’s a > 10’X19"X24"X15"X3.25" by the way, that ought to float > my 240lbs. butt fairly nicely. I had initially intended to leave it with > just a sanded finish but my laminating job was so bad that I had to do a > lot of filling and sanding with the hot coat. I got all the bumps out but > now it looks pretty sad. I have decided to go ahead and put on a gloss > finish, since the hot coat before sanding looked so good. I would like to > avoid having a board that ways 1000 pounds so my question is: can I thin > out the gloss coat resin with acetone? It seems to me that putting on the > thinest layer possible would be ideal. Would adding a solvent to the resin > completely screw up the resins ability to gel? Thanks in advance and > please bare with me if this is a ludicris idea. I would use styrene to thin the resin but it gets very tricky.If the gloss resin is “fresh” I would shoot it as is.Acetone is more of a solvent and not a thinner.Good Luck
what a lot of my friends who shape boards here in the uk are are using at the moment when they don’t want to put on a gloss coat is a lacquer coat through there airbrush looks great!
Your not talking that much more weigh. Thinnning Gloss Coat hurts the intent of Gloss Coat in the first place as a protective coat(water infillation, uv, abrasion). A way to make the coat thinner is to set the catalyst to a lower level. This gives the resin more time to thin(flow off the tape). Gloss coat will not help to cover the bumps. The board needs a good sand down to remove the bumps. Anthony.>>> First of all let me say that this site has been a god send! You guys have > given me so much more confidence on my first board. It’s a > 10’X19"X24"X15"X3.25" by the way, that ought to float > my 240lbs. butt fairly nicely. I had initially intended to leave it with > just a sanded finish but my laminating job was so bad that I had to do a > lot of filling and sanding with the hot coat. I got all the bumps out but > now it looks pretty sad. I have decided to go ahead and put on a gloss > finish, since the hot coat before sanding looked so good. I would like to > avoid having a board that ways 1000 pounds so my question is: can I thin > out the gloss coat resin with acetone? It seems to me that putting on the > thinest layer possible would be ideal. Would adding a solvent to the resin > completely screw up the resins ability to gel? Thanks in advance and > please bare with me if this is a ludicris idea. http://www.viser.net/~anthwind/
can the gloss coat be sanded to remove any bumps, or does that defeat the whole purpose of a “gloss coat”???
Gloss Coat is typically a thin coat which would not provide enough filling resin to sand out the bumps. The sanding coat in professional shops, I have seen is applied thick. Nothing like sanding away any bump issues.>>> can the gloss coat be sanded to remove any bumps, or does that defeat the > whole purpose of a “gloss coat”??? http://www.viser.net/~anthwind/