Aloha from big island you da man brah I’ve been following your vid’s and rewatching them 3,4,5 times they r helpfu af and I honestly wouldn’t have been able to pull of glassing my boards without your videos cheers mate if your ever in Hawaii give me a shout 🤙
Hey man, you rock! You re my new shaping guru haha I'd be stoke if you could make a retro fish and pay extra attention to the swallow tail lamination 🙏🏻 thanks man! Keep posting amazing stuff
Beautiful build mate! Would you mind doing a video or short on how you approach the relief cuts of the fiberglass? Keep going with the quality content!
Dude, your tips are proper decent and boards are sick. Massively appreciate your vids. No need to uprate production quality imho. the tips are bloody gold.
Thanks dude. I have , but not the same as these type of channels. I actually like the way epoxy gels. I just baby it until it’s tacky. Takes a touch more time.
I just stumbled on your page , really great stuff your doing I could watch it all night 😁 hand shaped is the best IMO not machine I admire a good craftsman in whatever skill.
Awesome video, I appreciate you taking the time to break things down in simple steps. I really appreciate you showing the tools that you are using.That is a cool looking glassing rack. Did you build it yourself? For future videos, I'd like to see two things.First, a detailed video on how you shape rails. I do a solid job blocking in the rail. I struggle with finishing them off. Specifically I struggle keeping them even and uniform. Second, I'd like to see how you shape a single or double concave. Thanks!
Thanks for watching mate. Yeh it’s just a simple rack that I chucked into 2 buckets of concrete. Does the job. I’ll keep those suggestions in mind. I do know a lot of people would also like to see the rails and concaves so I’ll definitely do a video on them in the future 🤙
Nice man, wish I saw this before glassing my board a few weeks ago. I ended up with a large air bubble in one of my channels. I fixed it by putting some resin in a 10 cc/ 18 gauge syringe that I got from a pharmacy and pumping it under the cured cloth. Neat trick with the 77 can.
Love your videos thank you so much for sharing. I'm a real newbie just starting out. Would you beed keen to make a video on bare minimum tools you need for shaping a board and also how a beginner starts to shape. I noticed you use some printed sheets that you stick to wood or cardboard as a template. Can they be downloaded?
I’ll be doing some videos like that in the future man. The templates can be downloaded. I create mine on an app called IShaper then download them. Or you can go to blending curves and get the pre designed and free downloads
Mate, I love your content. So help and useful. I've notice you've been using brushes a lot: Do you reuse them? If yes, how do you keep them clean and soft for the next usage? Thanks for helping a lot of beginner shapers.
Glad it’s helpful 🤘 yeh I re use them. I wipe as much resin out as I can then clean with acetone and then place them in a Tupperware container with some acetone in and put the lid on. Take them out and let dry before use and good to go. With the cheap chip brushes you can only get away with this a few times before they disintegrate
Dude! First of all I love these videos, Literally sit here refreshing waiting for the next upload 😂 That resin job is unbelievable, I'm going to be attempting a similar pattern at the weekend with a purple base and green highlights. Do you think this would work?
Great vid. So no worries on the spray glue showing up? Say you were doing a solid light blue tint would you see any color differences in the areas that were spray glued? Cheers
Thanks mate. No issues with the glue showing BUT if you overuse the glue it will show up a silvery colour. The glass soaks it in I think and doesn’t wet out properly. So just a light dusting 🤙
Another great video and board. Tons of great tips again. At 4:12, did you apply that lam hot mix before the swirl coat kicked? Thanks again for the awesome content
It definitely wasn’t my idea mate. I’m sure I read about it somewhere.. maybe swaylocks website. Just made perfect sense. But if you do over saturate the glue soaks into the glass and blocks the resin so that’s something that I found out the hard way 😅
Thanks 🤙 Channels are an individual preference. I personally don’t surf them.. but the channels on this board are there to keep the concave through the tail increasing drive. Also as it will be used as a 2 + 1 they sill hopefully make the tail hold better through turns 🤘
I've used the 77 spray adhesive on a lot of my channels boards works pretty well. Just need to make sure if you use it on eps you go extra light or it can melt the foam.
That’s weird.. I went and tested some of the eps I have in the shed yes y and sprayed a massive amount on it in a small area and it was fine. I wonder if different eps density reacts differently? But regardless even with poly a light dusting is all that’s needed. It can leave your fibreglass “ dry” if you spray too much and it soaks in
@@Shrednaught Could also be whats in the air or propellant, I've hear rattle can acrylic can do the same thing. The test I did I used a ton and had slight melting, but using only a dusting worked really well. Currently testing to see if just brushing resin on the channels and letting it tack is better.
Great job, did you have catalyst in the yellow/orange resin what percentage if so why the clear lam hot mix and do you use same adhesive for carbon rail tapes?
Just found your channel. Nearly watched every video already. Awesome 😎. Wondering if you can suggest any books or online resources for understanding mixing resin and the different type epoxy / polyester etc. I wanted to buy a small kit with a board already shaped and glass it myself. What do you think is the best way to get started? I’m in Sydney thought about doing a course / rending a bay but most are shaping only. Cheers. 🤙🏻
You can head to backyard surfboard shapers on Facebook or sway locks website for quite a bit of free info. Just remember to take some things with a grain of salt… as like most things on the internet some things said are not accurate. I’m pretty sure you can buy a pre shaped blank and even a “kit” from shapers.com and they’re from east coast. Other than that you can always hit me up for super specific questions. 🤙
@@Shrednaught Amazing thanks for getting back to me so quickly! Love your content. Just subbed. Can’t wait to see more. Maybe you could do a vid / review on a shapers kit? I’m sure there are tonnes of ppl out there that want to shape / glass at least one board in their life 😎✌🏻
Yo, I have a board similar to this, and I'm thinking of getting a step-up version of it next season for some bigger waves. But should I get a different channel bottom setup and how could I know what might cut and what will sink?? Would love to hear your thoughts on variations of channels and which options work best.
That’s a hard question to answer. As for what works best.. what works for me and my location might be trash for you and your waves. With out knowing what setup your running I can’t give you a definite answer but what we have been running has been boards with a rounded tail and a 2 + 1 setup with a single concave running into a 4 channel through the fin cluster. All channels toe in with the fins at 1/8 degree. Channels can be a personal preference and I’m not a huge channel guy but my mates are. I can get the same drive and hold with different fins or clusters. Are you shaping this board yourself or have a shaper local?
@@Shrednaught haha, channels are tricksy and that’s why I’m asking the wiser men. For context, I live in South Africa and mostly surf along the Eastern Cape and around Cape Town. Hitting some of our cranking point breaks and I am progressing towards heavier beachies that really throw some big barrels. I’m sticking clear of the additional stabiliser fin so far and mostly alternating between keel fins and as it’s called here tweel fins which are like keels with a wide base but give more pivot and release thanks to a steeper leading edge and more of a hook in the rake. Kinda like HP Keels. Works well with the keels on the inside edge for point breaks to knife into the face on takeoff but also to release and pivot when hitting the top! I bought my first twinnie second hand but I can get hold of the shaper [GONZO] who also lives on the East Coast near JBay. It’s modelled on the fiji performance twin that Toryn Martyn rides but squashed down to 6’0” - and I’m keen to see what it’s like stretched out as a mid length (6’8” - 7’2”) Maintain the low entry rocker on the nose and the rounded tail; I’m also wondering how far up the channels should go on the longer board. Haha, so many factors, I really just want to focus on one or two elements to tweak on the next iteration - sheesh gathered already so much going on with these twin pin channel bottoms but it’s so much fun to ride!
Yup of course. You can hand shape a board with just a few different types of sand paper and blocks. Obviously it’s slightly more time consuming but it’s doable
Sick channels and swirl bottom! Hey, how about you building a wooden 5'6x22x2.5 squash with quad fins and 4 channels?! I had one that it ripped so hard between 2 foot to overhead surf! But it got stolen. So, I began to buid a redwood version!
I didn’t kick the coloured resin as quick/ hot as I normally would to give me some extra time. The clear resin is catalysed quite hot/ high and this will help the tinted resin kick and make sure it all goes off fast enough
@@Shrednaught. Thanks for replying. 🤙🏼 If you laminated the same board with channels but NO swirl, would you have still used little catalyst to give you time to work on the channels?
It does depend on skill but I’d go 0.5% The clear lam mix after this will speed it up to a workable level. Otherwise you’ll be waiting forever and a day for it to go hard. 🤙
3m spray adhesive. Can’t remember the exact product number off the top of my head. Just email them and ask which is compatible with eps foam. And only ever apply a small amount as a larger amount can cause issues.
I’m pretty sure that if you only do a light dusting on eps with the glue it doesn’t melt it. 99% sure but let me spray and off cut and get back to you 🤙
Hey mate, you can add tint to a hot coat, but only for a couple of styles. One is to do a trashed tint or patina style. I’ll have a video on that soon. And the other is to make a tinted lam job more deep in colour. It won’t work to cover a clear lam
I drop the catalyst ratio in the swirl to give me more time. Once I’ve got that laid down I then do a hot ( higher catalysed ) clear lam mix over that to ensure that all of the colour work goes off in a timely manner
Yup I do try to get it all the way around onto the laps. It’s not a huge issue if I miss a spot because all the resin is catalysed it just affects the cure speed. 🤘
@@Shrednaught I asked because if that contains same aerosol as spray paint, the resin will look runny. It happened to me before. That's why I only use acrylic/water based paint.
Another really good video, thanks for sharing your knowledge. Check out iK Multimedia and Samson Technologies for audio devices you can use with your iPhone. They have wireless mics and all sorts of things that could help make your job easier.
@@Shrednaught Even just a lapel mic will make a huge difference. If you are going to only do voice pieces to camera and not while moving around a corded mic will be fine. iK also make some great phone holders that might be helpful?
Hey, great video!! Super helpful. I had a few questions before I start building my first board. ( The video I'm referencing is ruclips.net/video/k_7nHHFQxkk/видео.html&ab_channel=Shrednaught for the questions below.) What's the advantage (apart from different colours) of doing a tail and deck patch vs doing 2 full layers of glass on the top and bottom? If it's just a weight thing is there that much of a difference in weight between the two methods that makes doing patches worth it? (Also would there be a significant strength difference between patches vs 2 layers of glass). The second question is what's the difference between putting the fin boxes in before vs after glassing? As I have seen some videos where the fin boxes are put in before the glassing and some are put in after (generally with single fin longboards). If you put the fin boxes in before glassing shouldn't you put the leash plug in at the same time? Sorry if these are newbie questions. Keep up the great videos!
beautiful color and swirl great video
Thanks mate 🤙
Aloha from big island you da man brah I’ve been following your vid’s and rewatching them 3,4,5 times they r helpfu af and I honestly wouldn’t have been able to pull of glassing my boards without your videos cheers mate if your ever in Hawaii give me a shout 🤙
brilliant vids . Love them - from Newquay in the UK .
Thanks Ben. Appreciate the support 🤙
Love your "retro" designs, I'm happy to see the twin fin fish is still a viable creation.
I still have the one I made in 1978.
Hey man, you rock! You re my new shaping guru haha I'd be stoke if you could make a retro fish and pay extra attention to the swallow tail lamination 🙏🏻 thanks man! Keep posting amazing stuff
Hah thanks mate. Yeh I was definitely thinking a fish for the next one. With a nice resin swirl 👌
@@Shrednaught yeah man that would be amazing!! Also one of my biggest struggle is about shaping a nice round and not too thick nose 🙏🏻🤙🏻
@@Nayda44 👌
Fish/swallow tail lamination is still bugging my mind on how to do it clean after the 3 fishes i shaped. Would love to see a vid on those. Goodstuff!
@@daanschiltz8990 I’ll definitely do a fish. One of my favourite boards to surf.
So helpful, such a good idea
Beautiful build mate! Would you mind doing a video or short on how you approach the relief cuts of the fiberglass?
Keep going with the quality content!
Nice tutorial 🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼
Thanks mate 🍻
Thanks for all the tips. Big fan from Florida 🤙🏼
Thanks mate 🤙
Beautiful board, and thanks for the channels spray glue tip👌🏾
Thanks mate🤙
Thank you so helpfull that 3m 77 spray is awsome and the less catalyst on the glass first is very helpfull.
You’re welcome 🤙🤙
Great video mate and even better timing. I’m laminating my first set of channels tomorrow so thanks for the spray adhesive tip!! Legend 🤙🏼
Yew! That’s what I like to hear. Good luck man 🤙
Shrednaughtt major stokage from Florida Always entertaining watching your vids and rad boards
Thanks Mike. Much appreciated mate 🤙
absolute insane Mate .
Cheers 🤙
Oh man the light under the board for tint bubbles is a SAVE for me. Had no clue how to deal with this issue, thanks!!
Yew!
mate, that's an epic looking glass job, well done 🤙
🤙
Nice. I have been intimidated by channels until you shared that tip. Channels for my next personal board!!!!!
Yew! Good luck
Sick.
Mad skills dude 🤙
Cheers man 🤘
Dude, thank you so much for this video. Been shying away from doing channels due to fear of F'ing up their glassing. That's a nice resin swirl.
You’re welcome. Haha don’t worry I still get the sweats when doing them. They’re definitely a tonne more work that’s for sure 🤙
Shred man kicks arse !!!!!!!
Yew!
Dude, your tips are proper decent and boards are sick. Massively appreciate your vids. No need to uprate production quality imho. the tips are bloody gold.
Thanks mate I appreciate it. 🤙
i just glassed my first board with channels. i wish this was posted 2 weeks ago. good stuff either way
Aw spewing man. How did ya go?
Amazing videos! Yes please I would like to see you making a retro fish! 🐠
Sounds like a plan 🤙
Love it man, keep it up! Have you done channels with epoxy resin?
Thanks dude. I have , but not the same as these type of channels. I actually like the way epoxy gels. I just baby it until it’s tacky. Takes a touch more time.
I just stumbled on your page , really great stuff your doing I could watch it all night 😁 hand shaped is the best IMO not machine I admire a good craftsman in whatever skill.
Thanks mate. Glad you enjoyed it 🤙
@@Shrednaught were are you at
Western Australia
Awesome video, I appreciate you taking the time to break things down in simple steps. I really appreciate you showing the tools that you are using.That is a cool looking glassing rack. Did you build it yourself? For future videos, I'd like to see two things.First, a detailed video on how you shape rails. I do a solid job blocking in the rail. I struggle with finishing them off. Specifically I struggle keeping them even and uniform. Second, I'd like to see how you shape a single or double concave. Thanks!
Thanks for watching mate. Yeh it’s just a simple rack that I chucked into 2 buckets of concrete. Does the job. I’ll keep those suggestions in mind. I do know a lot of people would also like to see the rails and concaves so I’ll definitely do a video on them in the future 🤙
Faaaack yeah man another great vid!!! Thank you!
🤘thanks for watching
You got to 1,000 subscribers!!!
Yew!
Nice man, wish I saw this before glassing my board a few weeks ago. I ended up with a large air bubble in one of my channels. I fixed it by putting some resin in a 10 cc/ 18 gauge syringe that I got from a pharmacy and pumping it under the cured cloth. Neat trick with the 77 can.
ah spewing man. At least you'll know for the next one
@@Shrednaught First time shaping a board so learning a few lessons the hard way haha
It only get easier mate. Each board you will learn something
Hi, love your videos. I was happy if you make a video about glass on fin
Thanks
Thank you 🤙 I do a lot of glass on fins. I’ll film the next ones I do
An MR style twin with retro spray would be awesome.
I like the sound of that 🤙
Nice! Managed to do a few channels not needing the adhesive at all...
👌
Love your videos thank you so much for sharing. I'm a real newbie just starting out. Would you beed keen to make a video on bare minimum tools you need for shaping a board and also how a beginner starts to shape. I noticed you use some printed sheets that you stick to wood or cardboard as a template. Can they be downloaded?
I’ll be doing some videos like that in the future man. The templates can be downloaded. I create mine on an app called IShaper then download them. Or you can go to blending curves and get the pre designed and free downloads
Mate, I love your content. So help and useful. I've notice you've been using brushes a lot: Do you reuse them? If yes, how do you keep them clean and soft for the next usage? Thanks for helping a lot of beginner shapers.
Glad it’s helpful 🤘 yeh I re use them. I wipe as much resin out as I can then clean with acetone and then place them in a Tupperware container with some acetone in and put the lid on. Take them out and let dry before use and good to go. With the cheap chip brushes you can only get away with this a few times before they disintegrate
Love watching your fkn awesome!
Yew! Thanks for watching mate 🤘
Dude! First of all I love these videos, Literally sit here refreshing waiting for the next upload 😂
That resin job is unbelievable, I'm going to be attempting a similar pattern at the weekend with a purple base and green highlights. Do you think this would work?
Hah thanks man. Yeh definitely that will work. Purple and green work really well together.
Awesome video- about to do this on the weekend! What ratio of catalyst are you using for the swirl coat? Board looks unreal!
0.5% roughly. But don’t forget the hot lam clear mix to kick it after you’ve done the colour work.
Great vid. So no worries on the spray glue showing up? Say you were doing a solid light blue tint would you see any color differences in the areas that were spray glued? Cheers
Thanks mate. No issues with the glue showing BUT if you overuse the glue it will show up a silvery colour. The glass soaks it in I think and doesn’t wet out properly. So just a light dusting 🤙
Another great video and board. Tons of great tips again. At 4:12, did you apply that lam hot mix before the swirl coat kicked? Thanks again for the awesome content
Yeh the swirl was already catalysing but only slowly. The hot mix makes sure that it’s all going to go off
super useful tip! thank you@@Shrednaught
nice work!! what gave you the idea to use spray adhesive? wish I would have tried that back when I was building channel bottoms
It definitely wasn’t my idea mate. I’m sure I read about it somewhere.. maybe swaylocks website. Just made perfect sense. But if you do over saturate the glue soaks into the glass and blocks the resin so that’s something that I found out the hard way 😅
cool videos I really liked them and I dont even surf, What do the channels do for the board?
Thanks 🤙
Channels are an individual preference. I personally don’t surf them.. but the channels on this board are there to keep the concave through the tail increasing drive. Also as it will be used as a 2 + 1 they sill hopefully make the tail hold better through turns 🤘
I've used the 77 spray adhesive on a lot of my channels boards works pretty well. Just need to make sure if you use it on eps you go extra light or it can melt the foam.
That’s weird.. I went and tested some of the eps I have in the shed yes y and sprayed a massive amount on it in a small area and it was fine. I wonder if different eps density reacts differently?
But regardless even with poly a light dusting is all that’s needed. It can leave your fibreglass “ dry” if you spray too much and it soaks in
@@Shrednaught Could also be whats in the air or propellant, I've hear rattle can acrylic can do the same thing. The test I did I used a ton and had slight melting, but using only a dusting worked really well. Currently testing to see if just brushing resin on the channels and letting it tack is better.
@@WaveWasters yew! Good luck
@@Shrednaught Didn't go as smooth as I hoped definitely sticking to the spray next time
@@WaveWasters damn. That’s why I do the combo. Try to cover my back on both sides.
Epoxy should be fairly easy to fix up
ever thought about trying to dye the cloth before lam? wonder what kind of effect it would give.
Yeh I’ve done that before. Gives a tie dye effect. Looks cool. Heaps of guys doing it on Instagram. Chemistry surfboards is one that comes to mind
Love your videos can you do a tutorial on how to glass the tail of a fish?
Next fish I do I’ll make sure 🤙
Great job, did you have catalyst in the yellow/orange resin what percentage if so why the clear lam hot mix and do you use same adhesive for carbon rail tapes?
I only had 0.5% in the colour that’s why I also used a hot lam mix to speed things up. Yup same spray for rail tapes 🤙
Hey, thanks for the helpful vid
Do you wait for the resin you put in the channel to kick before starting to glass the board ?
No worries.
Yeh so I paste the resin in there and let it start to gel. That way it holds down the glass a bit more. 🤙
@@Shrednaught That's what I thought, I just wanted to be sure.
Thanks again for the video, I'm going to try it all!
Just found your channel. Nearly watched every video already. Awesome 😎. Wondering if you can suggest any books or online resources for understanding mixing resin and the different type epoxy / polyester etc. I wanted to buy a small kit with a board already shaped and glass it myself. What do you think is the best way to get started? I’m in Sydney thought about doing a course / rending a bay but most are shaping only. Cheers. 🤙🏻
You can head to backyard surfboard shapers on Facebook or sway locks website for quite a bit of free info. Just remember to take some things with a grain of salt… as like most things on the internet some things said are not accurate.
I’m pretty sure you can buy a pre shaped blank and even a “kit” from shapers.com and they’re from east coast.
Other than that you can always hit me up for super specific questions. 🤙
@@Shrednaught Amazing thanks for getting back to me so quickly! Love your content. Just subbed. Can’t wait to see more. Maybe you could do a vid / review on a shapers kit? I’m sure there are tonnes of ppl out there that want to shape / glass at least one board in their life 😎✌🏻
That’s an awesome idea. I’ll look into it for a future vid 🤘
@@Shrednaught 🙌🏻
Yo, I have a board similar to this, and I'm thinking of getting a step-up version of it next season for some bigger waves.
But should I get a different channel bottom setup and how could I know what might cut and what will sink??
Would love to hear your thoughts on variations of channels and which options work best.
That’s a hard question to answer. As for what works best.. what works for me and my location might be trash for you and your waves. With out knowing what setup your running I can’t give you a definite answer but what we have been running has been boards with a rounded tail and a 2 + 1 setup with a single concave running into a 4 channel through the fin cluster. All channels toe in with the fins at 1/8 degree. Channels can be a personal preference and I’m not a huge channel guy but my mates are. I can get the same drive and hold with different fins or clusters.
Are you shaping this board yourself or have a shaper local?
@@Shrednaught haha, channels are tricksy and that’s why I’m asking the wiser men.
For context, I live in South Africa and mostly surf along the Eastern Cape and around Cape Town. Hitting some of our cranking point breaks and I am progressing towards heavier beachies that really throw some big barrels.
I’m sticking clear of the additional stabiliser fin so far and mostly alternating between keel fins and as it’s called here tweel fins which are like keels with a wide base but give more pivot and release thanks to a steeper leading edge and more of a hook in the rake. Kinda like HP Keels. Works well with the keels on the inside edge for point breaks to knife into the face on takeoff but also to release and pivot when hitting the top!
I bought my first twinnie second hand but I can get hold of the shaper [GONZO] who also lives on the East Coast near JBay. It’s modelled on the fiji performance twin that Toryn Martyn rides but squashed down to 6’0” -
and I’m keen to see what it’s like stretched out as a mid length (6’8” - 7’2”)
Maintain the low entry rocker on the nose and the rounded tail;
I’m also wondering how far up the channels should go on the longer board.
Haha, so many factors, I really just want to focus on one or two elements to tweak on the next iteration - sheesh gathered already so much going on with these twin pin channel bottoms but it’s so much fun to ride!
heyy! do you think that a diy surfboard could be done with simpler tools than yourse?
it would be awesome to have a look at that!
nice vidd!
Yup of course. You can hand shape a board with just a few different types of sand paper and blocks. Obviously it’s slightly more time consuming but it’s doable
Sick channels and swirl bottom!
Hey, how about you building a wooden 5'6x22x2.5 squash with quad fins and 4 channels?!
I had one that it ripped so hard between 2 foot to overhead surf! But it got stolen. So, I began to buid a redwood version!
That sounds sick! Spewing it was stolen. Redwood sounds interesting though. Is it going to be hollow or chambered?
@@Shrednaught Thanks man! Totally will be chambered!
4:12 I learned some stuff here. Thank you! What was the purpose of adding the hot clear laminating resin then?
I didn’t kick the coloured resin as quick/ hot as I normally would to give me some extra time. The clear resin is catalysed quite hot/ high and this will help the tinted resin kick and make sure it all goes off fast enough
@@Shrednaught. Thanks for replying. 🤙🏼 If you laminated the same board with channels but NO swirl, would you have still used little catalyst to give you time to work on the channels?
Na, not necessary. But you can still do it depending on your skill level. I normally just catalyse normally without channels.
@@Shrednaught Yours was the first video I’ve seen that explained how to mix resin when doing a swirl and how to glass channels. Thanks.
🤘
Hey man - when you say to use less catalyst for swirls - how much % do you use?
It does depend on skill but I’d go 0.5%
The clear lam mix after this will speed it up to a workable level. Otherwise you’ll be waiting forever and a day for it to go hard. 🤙
What kind of glue you use. I buy composite glue, but when i apply composite glue on esp foarm, the foarm was burn.
3m spray adhesive. Can’t remember the exact product number off the top of my head. Just email them and ask which is compatible with eps foam. And only ever apply a small amount as a larger amount can cause issues.
Smart using the spray glue, if you were using EPS what might you use instead as to not melt the foam?
I’m pretty sure that if you only do a light dusting on eps with the glue it doesn’t melt it. 99% sure but let me spray and off cut and get back to you 🤙
Just went and sprayed an off cut of eps with a thick layer of that glue and it’s all good man. Doesn’t melt eps
@@Shrednaught that's good to know mate, thanks for the rapid test. Enjoying your videos and swirl experiments, doing some of my own too!
@@foamhacker6396 yew!
Would it be possible to add dye to a hotcoat and colour your surfboard this way?
Hey mate, you can add tint to a hot coat, but only for a couple of styles. One is to do a trashed tint or patina style. I’ll have a video on that soon. And the other is to make a tinted lam job more deep in colour. It won’t work to cover a clear lam
@@Shrednaught ALright! Thanks for your help brother.
All good man 🤙
what was the part with the clear lam hot mix? why put that on...?? thanks!
I drop the catalyst ratio in the swirl to give me more time. Once I’ve got that laid down I then do a hot ( higher catalysed ) clear lam mix over that to ensure that all of the colour work goes off in a timely manner
@@Shrednaught do you make sure to get the hot mix on the deck laps as well?
Yup I do try to get it all the way around onto the laps. It’s not a huge issue if I miss a spot because all the resin is catalysed it just affects the cure speed. 🤘
I don't think the spray adhesive will work when using Epoxy Resin. Have you used it? I see you used Polyester here.
Yup works with epoxy too. That’s a little trick to get your carbon to stay in place when doing stringerless eps / epoxy
@@Shrednaught I asked because if that contains same aerosol as spray paint, the resin will look runny. It happened to me before. That's why I only use acrylic/water based paint.
@@Surfmus if you use the exact brand 3M spray in the video and apply lightly there won’t be an issue. Over use can have negative effects
Step bottom fireball fish !!!!!!! I’ll send you the numbers …..
Damn making it a challenge 😅
Another really good video, thanks for sharing your knowledge. Check out iK Multimedia and Samson Technologies for audio devices you can use with your iPhone. They have wireless mics and all sorts of things that could help make your job easier.
Thanks for the info. I will look into them first thing tomorrow. I definitely need to improve the audio. Cheers 🤙
@@Shrednaught Even just a lapel mic will make a huge difference. If you are going to only do voice pieces to camera and not while moving around a corded mic will be fine. iK also make some great phone holders that might be helpful?
Finless ;)
I do have a blank that I’ve been thinking of doing a finless with..
plus I like the idea of not having to do the fin boxes haha
@@Shrednaught the design can be totally radical. Build already 2 of them, (one a 9'9 footer).
@@tonybeatbutcher a 9’9 🤯
@@Shrednaught Yes, 2 deep channels and the stringer popping out as fin-replacer. It's a round nose next time I'll make one with a more pointy nose.
Hey, great video!! Super helpful. I had a few questions before I start building my first board.
( The video I'm referencing is ruclips.net/video/k_7nHHFQxkk/видео.html&ab_channel=Shrednaught for the questions below.)
What's the advantage (apart from different colours) of doing a tail and deck patch vs doing 2 full layers of glass on the top and bottom? If it's just a weight thing is there that much of a difference in weight between the two methods that makes doing patches worth it? (Also would there be a significant strength difference between patches vs 2 layers of glass).
The second question is what's the difference between putting the fin boxes in before vs after glassing? As I have seen some videos where the fin boxes are put in before the glassing and some are put in after (generally with single fin longboards). If you put the fin boxes in before glassing shouldn't you put the leash plug in at the same time?
Sorry if these are newbie questions. Keep up the great videos!