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Postby tomcat360 » Wed Oct 25, 2006 1:45 pm

well, shortboard, longboard....this one....

a hunk of foam that will one day become a board, and another hunk of foam.

Really only 2 rideable. I've got a kind lacking quiver, this should fill a nice gap
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Postby tomcat360 » Mon Nov 06, 2006 1:37 am

New update--

I've realized that the bubbles might cause a bit of an issue, but not enough of one to sweat it. I just have realized that I'll just hotcoat straight over it, and move on to the next project. I really don't think they are such a big deal, most of them on my board don't flex anyways, so they are probably solid.

Oh yeah, today I shaped a practice board (not out of good foam) One of the guys I shape with had some stuff he was testing that didn't work, so I shaped a little shortboard. The bottom has this weird crust on it that's like 1/8" thick and extremely hard, and won't plane off, so I just did the rails. So I'm just gonna keep dropping a template and reshape the board until there's nothing left.
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Postby tomcat360 » Thu Jan 04, 2007 2:03 am

Tonight we did some pretty crazy glassing on the top. We layed a tack coat of resin straight on the blank, and then laid the glass ontop and pretty much got the resin to soak through the bottom of the cloth. So then we completely wetted out the first layer (very dry though) and then laid a second layer and pretty much repeated the steps. Rather cool process. Still got a bit of a resin buzz going I think, although it was epoxy, so not too much.

After all that, 2 layers of glass and almost 3 inches of rail lap, we only used 17 ounces

Hopefully in the morning it looks the same way it does right now. Then hot coat and fins and whallaa!
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Postby pault » Thu Jan 04, 2007 2:54 pm

Hey Tomcat did you sort out your Logo & Name yet?

Oh and great looking board :D
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Postby tomcat360 » Thu Jan 04, 2007 3:27 pm

....no....I haven't.....

Last night, we got the first layer down, and I thought, huh, never did a logo....eh, too late now....

And went on with it

I took some pictures, but it's on film, so I have to get them printed and then scan them, so they will probably come up later when I get pics of hot coat, fins, and finish :D
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Postby kitesurfer » Thu Jan 04, 2007 6:45 pm

Seems to be coming on nicely tomcat. Did you decide to do anything about the bubbles you said you'd got. And how long does the epoxy ur using take to go off.
Have considered doing an epoxy kitesurf waveboard at some point, be a good ntro into the world of epoxy.

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Postby tomcat360 » Thu Jan 04, 2007 7:55 pm

I decided to prevent the bubbles from coming up on the top and just forgetting them on the bottom. I might pop the tops and let the hot coat fill in, but maybe not. They are very small and quite hard.

The epoxy takes 200 minutes to go off. Yeah, I know. But it does that really slowly, it doesn't go from soft to hard in a couple minutes like polyester.

I forgot to mention that after I got it wetted out on top and the rails were still rather dry, we flipped the entire board over and tacked down the rails, and then later came back and wetted them out, then flipped back.
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Postby kitesurfer » Thu Jan 04, 2007 8:08 pm

Do you not risk getting resin on the other side or does that not matter at this stage? Would this cause problems if using tinted resin?

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Postby tomcat360 » Thu Jan 04, 2007 11:20 pm

Well the top was glassed clear, while the bottom was done with color. You can do cut laps for both top and bottom, but I did a cut lap bottom and a free lap top (like if you were doing a straight clear board). So it's just a bit of extra clear resin, but all the edges will be grinded down to where they are completely smooth, and the hot coat will fill in all the scratches.

Oh yeah, and you will absolutely LOVE how well epoxy sands compared to lam resin. It sands like wood, no clogging at all.

If you have any questions about the kite board building, I've got someone who would probably like speaking with you.
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Postby kitesurfer » Fri Jan 05, 2007 7:56 am

tomcat360 wrote:If you have any questions about the kite board building, I've got someone who would probably like speaking with you.


XSWIND is ur man for building kiteboards, he's done loads of them. What kind of grinder are u using to grind down ur laps? I do all that by hand and do you find u have to go into the weaver much to get them down?


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Postby tomcat360 » Fri Jan 05, 2007 12:14 pm

I use a little pneumatic angle grinder, or do them by hand. On this one there is going to be more grinding than normal, because we had about 3 inches hanging down from the bottom rail all the way around, and at that length it gets tough to get those kinda bends, so maybe a spot or two on the rails, and then about 3 or 4 on the tail and a decent bit on the nose.

Did you mean do I have to go very deep?
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