Hi,
I am working on my third board right now. I have just managed to botch a yellow/orange tint. I think I shouldn’t have skimped on epoxy it made the color uneven. Now, I am throwing my problem out to the swaylockians across the world for some advice. What can I do to make this look decent.
I figure now is the time to display my nifty shaping glassing rack conversion.
And my micro workshop. I really need a bigger basement.
Chip had a problem with the deck of his bushfire fish similar to yours.
What I did was tint the epoxy with the colour needed and applied the colour to the final hot/gloss coat.
Worked out really well…
BTW the board looks great…
Have you tried kneeling instead of standing?
Hey, at least you have electricity. I work in my detached garage, with no power and 3 small windows, and no roll up doors. I set up my board in front of the door so I can see what I’m doing.
hey at least you have a room i don’t even have that but i got lots of sun shine
the tint looks fine to me but i’m also color blind
Options…
Leave it alone ,the shape is more important than the color…
Do some color in the hot coat per Hicksy’s post…
Pin lines or logos to distract the eye…
Have you seen the resin panels that they do over at Austin Surfboards?
Extra layer of 4oz cloth with color…
Art work after the board is finished…
Post photos , go surfing
Ray
A colored hotcoat as suggested will help. If you really want it to be nice and even and don’t care about the popout look you can do an opaque hotcoat. Chances are you’ll sand through it in places, but you can mix up enough colored resin for two hotcoats. Once you have sanded the first, you can put on a thin even second coat that will need very little sanding.
Another alternative if you are feeling artistic is to use it as a canvas for posca or airbrush art.
Good luck.
regards,
Håvard
A room? We used to dream of having a room… there were 27 of us, all shaping in a small shoebox in the middle of the road. (After work we had to lick the road clean with our tongues.) For glassing we had to fit into a paper bag, in a septic tank. Oh, I digress…Back then I think we would have used another hotcoat withe tint, to even the color out a bit. But, those were the days, we were happier then… tell that to board builders today, they won’t believe you.
And we used to shape with rocks…round rocks, small round rocks. Round small rocks in the middle of the road. And everytime a car would pass by, the blank would fly out of our hands. You see we couldn’t afford shaping stands, we had to hold our own blanks while we shaped them, shaping them with the round rocks.
A shoebox and a road that would have been luxury to us… we had to shape whilst walking bare foot on hot coals in the pouring rain with only one of those cocktail umbrelas fro protection from the elememts, for 37 hours a day, 8 days a week, as you can imagine that didn’t leave much time for glassing which in those days had to be done using a brocken comb whilst hanging upside down by your feet. Bat even back then an opaque hot coat would do the trick, ahh simpler time.
In my day we used to get up an hour before we went to bed just to go surfing, used to live in a hole in the middle of a lake…
Arrrrgh good old Monty Python
Ahhhhh, the good old days…good times, good times