So, a buddy and I had an idea to shape a board that looks like a cigar and put a logo on it and everything. We’d do a dark brown with a gray nose, and we wanted to put a Gurkah label on it that wraps around the rails…is that possible? I can’t seem to find boards that have a design that wraps. We’ve got a buddy who can create the laminate for us and I spent some time searching how to put laminates on, but I couldn’t find anything about wrapping around rails. Hopefully we can make something that will work!
Have your buddy make the cigar band laminate in two pieces, one for top, one for the bottom.
Lam the whole board. Knock down any bumps.
Put on the laminate and go over it with 2 oz cloth. Blend the edges. Hot coat the whole thing.
Never done a cigar band but have done logos this way on heavily colored boards.
Should work.
Thanks man, good to know. It’ll be a fun little experiment! I probably won’t have time to shape it till summer, but I’ll definitely post pics here when it’s done.
thats funny. can you show it once its done?
Yeah I will for sure. We just had the idea earlier today. I’ll probably start collecting materials and such over the next month or too. I’ll probably have to wait to build the board till summer since I’m busy in full time school/part time work/volunteering some places all while trying to get some time in the water too!!
I’ve glassed plenty off laminates around the rails. Woody has the right idea for sure, but remember unless the lam is horizontal you will have to have your buddy make one for the top and one for the bottom because the perspective is opposite with an angle. i.e. the lettering is at a different bias.
When glassing the lam roll back the cloth, pour some resin on the area where the lam will be and squeegee it out, then carefully apply the lam, pour some more resin on and wet out the lam. Work it like the cloth and get all bubbles out. Then unroll the cloth back over the area and laminate the board as usual.
Or if you’re a master then do the band in resin, and tape off and spray the cigar logo.
Resin!!!
Johnny , Johnny, Johnny......rail laminate cool...yes...good idea......great concept....
glassing a turd..no...not so good...brown to gray...poop....Cigar colors don't work for me....
Hey, maybe you can make it work...I don't like cork boards or cigar boards because I have 3 kids....
and poop is a fact of life.......
Make sure to kick the resin slow when applying the ricepaper lams and babysit for bubbles the may show up on the rails.
~Brian