Here is the video link that AustinS was talking about:
U waste lots of resin with that method …mate.
yes it’s easy and fast but the floor is not happy
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U waste lots of resin with that method …mate.
yes it’s easy and fast but the floor is not happy
How do you do it with less resin while still getting the laps completely saturated in a reasonable amount of time?
J. Troy, Actually Austin usually does use less resin but in this case this board was for an important customer and also it had a lot of color so we wanted to use some of the excess resin to baste the underside lap (to make it easier to grind without grinding into the color). We have also found that it is way better (cost vs time) to use a little extra resin then to run short or to have to come back and rewet a few dry patches. The airbrushed boards always soak up a little extra resin and take a little extra time!
So you don’t wrap up under the botttomside of the rail?
You’ll do this and then trim off the excess after it kicks?
if i can jump in here… we fold the laps in the normal free lap fashion. we were using more resin so it basted the deck with one step instead of flipping it and basting the laps for sanding. Time = Money any ways to save time and maybe loose a bit of resin will be made up in the long run. Austin S.
Well if everyone else is going to be a critic, then I’d like to be the first to say – Thanks for taking the time to put this up.
That’s about the same way I do it, but I go in steps, maybe 4 to get across the laps. It’s a little slower, and I squeegee slower, and I save a bit more resin this way, but like you said… that’s most economical for you. I shape for myself so time really isn’t a factor, other than trying to get it to kick fast for a light board.
Nice paint job, I love the asymmetry
Nice Job Austin.You did it like 90% of the production shops.As for resin waste it wasn’t really that much and the laps are good and wet.I do it both ways(flipping the laps up) but I only do that on retro boards with big 3inch cut laps.Don’t trip on those shoes old buddy.
Howzit Austin, Want to check out your video but it doesn’t seem to down load for me. Aloha, Kokua
Hey Kokua, maybe try right clicking and “Save Target” to your desktop and try playing from there. You may need an .avi player, I prefer real one, but I think the windows media player will work…
it won’t come up for me either.
the error message was something along the lines of : failed to intialize because the file was not found
‘Save Target’ worked. thanks. that is a lot of resin…
that video was a real help! i think the web needs a surfboard construction movie reference site. i think that that would help a lot of people. reading the descriptions, and searching the archives is nothing like watching it being done. austins, you’ve done a great thing for us newbies!! thanks.
agreed! I’d love to watch some of the masters doing their thing on video.
I had the same problem as Kokua - mine couldn’t decompress the file. You must be using a newer file format or something. Don’t suppose you have it in a pre-.avi format, whatever that would be (older windows media player?) thx,
Could be a Codec issue, but I’d doubt it, it’s just an .avi. The Win Amp player is free… I don’t use it much for video, but I don’t think I’ve touched my CD player since I started using it for music. It’ll play that .avi though.
Howzit Keith, No problem I just used my Real Player and everything worked fine. Aloha, Kokua
Well, OK – I just got it to run w/ QuickTime. Yup, Austin’s method looks more or less like I do it – except I try to catch a bit more in the bucket, and try to have just enough resin so that the bucket is empty when I’m done. (Although, running low is a really bad idea!) Nice footage but mebbe should have kept the camera running long enough to show how to wrap the laps up, that seems to be where a lot of questions & problems occur…nice colors on that board, by the way…
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Well, OK – I just got it to run w/ QuickTime. Yup, Austin’s method looks more or less like I do it – except I try to catch a bit more in the bucket, and try to have just enough resin so that the bucket is empty when I’m done. (Although, running low is a really bad idea!) Nice footage but mebbe should have kept the camera running long enough to show how to wrap the laps up, that seems to be where a lot of questions & problems occur…nice colors on that board, by the way…
Yup, showing how the laps are wrapped is a good idea.
yea we would have taped longer but it was just a handheld digital camera so it is very limited. thanks for the tip kokua. i have a few squeegees that have 3 slots ground into them and that makes them extremely flexable. i also got this generic squeegee recently and it was the most flexable squeegee i have used in a long time. Austin S.