I secured Kelly Slater and Mike Parson’s autograph onto rice paper a couple days ago at Trestles and was thinking about glassing them onto a board. I wonder if they will run (bleed) when I apply resin. Duh, I guess I could just figure it out for myself with marker and extra rice paper.
I secured Kelly Slater and Mike Parson’s autograph onto rice paper a > couple days ago at Trestles and was thinking about glassing them onto a > board. I wonder if they will run (bleed) when I apply resin. Duh, I guess > I could just figure it out for myself with marker and extra rice paper. I know from experience that sharpies bleed when glassed over, looks cool but probably dont want to do that with your slater/parsons signature. You could photocopy it to another piece of rice paper and glass that though.
I know from experience that sharpies bleed when glassed over, looks cool > but probably dont want to do that with your slater/parsons signature. You > could photocopy it to another piece of rice paper and glass that though. That wasn’t the answer I was looking for, as you can probably guess. I wonder, given that information, if applying something to the rice paper would keep the sharpie from running (bleeding) when I apply the resin. I thought it would be really cool to have that under a board and 1. ride it or 2. stick it on EBAY and see how rich I get (yeah, right). I was going to put Kelly Slater’s autograph onto a new 6,6 that I am about to shape, and Mike Parson’s onto a 9,0 gun.
I secured Kelly Slater and Mike Parson’s autograph onto rice paper a > couple days ago at Trestles and was thinking about glassing them onto a > board. I wonder if they will run (bleed) when I apply resin. Duh, I guess > I could just figure it out for myself with marker and extra rice paper. Just put it under your pillow tonight, and maybe one of the New Castle fairies will leave you a quarter for it. Hope you are O.K. sweet dreams [blush]-----------I
Try spraying over your rice paper with a light coat of clear acrylic. This should hold the ink down.I do this with anything I print out myself and never have any bleeding problems.goo luck
How much acid did your mother feed you when you were a kid???
How much acid did your mother feed you when you were a kid??? I can’t remember…have fun [blush]—I
They told me to leave it to the pros, and boy were they right. Glassing, the real challenge. I thought shaping was kind of easy, and certainly enjoyable. Oh, sure, symetry suffered a little, but that’s okay since no two waves are alike anyway. Yes, shaping is great. But Glassing! Oh, the misery of it all. I have never seen so much mess, so much smell, so much dispair in all my life. What a toxic nightmare. My friends all said “leave it to the pros.” They were right. And after buying all the damn tools and brushes I didn’t save a penny over what it would have cost to take it (my new 7 footer) to Global Glassing in So. Cal. They only wanted 20 bucks a foot. Next time (this month, a 6,6 tri-squash) I am going to take it to the pros. Maybe when they glass it, and leave it under a canopy for an hour the gardner won’t come by and spray gravel all over the hotcoat with a leaf blower (DOH!). However, there is something to be said: I am a real surfer now. Although I am on my 24th year of surfing, I didn’t feel complete until I made my own board from scratch with no help from anyone (well, except the outstanding advice from all of you). And it aint half bad. The shape is nice, so turning on a rail should be pretty easy. I am a bit worried that the two outside fins aren’t exactly the same as far as verticalness is concerned (if that is even a word), and the third fin extends an inch past the tail (yeah, it was an accident, but at least it will hold in the barrel better). Yeah, no one is going to confuse it with a store bought board, that’s for sure. Hey, my label even says: “Fairbanks Surfboards, Don’t get too used to 'em.” So, I am a real surfer now, a complete surfer (well, just as soon as I sand the damn gravel out of the hotcoat). God Bless the USA and God bless the glassers. They are the true heroes.