Surfing Waves

Hey everybody,
I have been getting into more and more color resin jobs. I cant seem to stop the resin from pulling onto the foam when I pull the laps of my first side with cloth over. Tape will not stick to the foam, or at least the tapes that I have tried. I can think of no "easy" way to do it. I can cover the transitions (basically the 2-3 layers built up being darker) from the laps with a pinstripe but these spots are too far in to cover up. They just look messy!!! Any help would be greatly appreciated thanks
mike

Hi Mike,

Masking tape will stick to a sanded blank. When doing swirls or resin tints you need to first blow all the dust off with an air gun, make sure its all gone. Let the dust settle then blow again. Then get yourself some big ass tape, 100mm if you can find it. Cover the entire deck (or bottom) overlapping the tapes by about 5mm. Make sure it is down well. Then lightly mark where you want your cut lap to be using a pencil. I used the rail as a guide and hold the pencil in a fixed position and run around the deck. Then using a sharp blade cut along the line and remove the outer piece of masking tape. This will leave the deck of your board completely covered.Then make sure the cut edge of the tape is well down. The cut itself will also act as kind of a resin barrier.
Flip over board and glass making sure you go over the tape completley. Now the tricky bit is timing your cut lap. Too soon and it will pull the cloth, too late and it will be impossible to cut through the hard resin. Get it right and your blade will cut through the resin smoothly.

Here's one i did a while back.





Good luck
KS

sounds good to me i wasn't covering the whole deck with tape, just a strip, seems like that will help "stickage". Thanks for the help I will just sit and wait to cut the lap, razor blade probably best? Nice board by the way but you led me to another question. How did you do the small shape in the middle without the acid wash getting in there??? looks awesome!!
mike

hangtenri wrote: How did you do the small shape in the middle without the acid wash getting in there??? looks awesome!!
mike

Now i can't be given away all my secrets now can i! Ask me again in 6 months and i might divulge.

KS

lol no problem thanks again for the help on the other stuff it really helped.
mike

thanks, KS. I really enjoy when you board-making guys discuss board making.
billie