Thanks for all your help so far. Glassed (bottom) my first board (Fish) yesterday, and OMG you were right. The first one is going to be a little messy. Poured the resign (tinted with Teal) on bottom and worked it in and accidentally dropped the resign container on the floor. Time was running out and I still needed to do the rails. That's when it all went to hell. Resign all over the floor on plastic, resign soaked pieces of fiber cloth sticking to everything. Lot and lots of gloves. Finished the rails but my cut laps on the Fish Tail became a nightmare. Resign started to kick. Bottom actually looks OK, but my cut laps are going to be ugly. I couldn't have done it without your help. Thanks. A Retro Fish with Cut Lap was not the best choice for my first board. But Hey!!! it's all down hill now. ;-)
If you put epoxy on the bare substrate first, you get better adhesion. So in this case you’d pull half the fabric back, apply a thin layer of epoxy directly onto the foam, then replace the fabric onto the wet, then repeat the process on the second half. Then proceed with the same process you showed.
I built a board like this years ago with West Marine epoxy and the pink Home Depot foam. It glassed good at first, but over the years the pink foam gassed out a lot from normal heat exposure (that my PU boards were OK with) and the whole deck delaminated. There are one way vented leash plugs that I would consider if I were to do again. How did your glass hold up?
I hope you noticed that your tape line got way off around the back, before you glassed and cut it. You had about 1 3/4” on the left and about 3/4” on the right!
hi, i appreciste you grsst vids!! i wonder what is your experience in terms of epoxy delaminating on XPS blanks? looks like you have already built XPS/epoxy boards in the past with success? what would you suggest to prevent delaminating? there are some infos on the net, however it appears as every shaper has his own good and bad experience as well as own countermeasures... in other words, reading through forums, it is not clear to me how to approach delamination problem...
you can free lap clear resin laminating without tape on this deck and tape the other side save you a lot of bother unless you are using colour in your glass mix
Did you use filler? Before the lamination? If possible please answer asap I have been following this series and am close to this step on my own build. Thanks
Hello friend, good video, greetings from Cartagena, Colombia. I wanted to ask you what is the name of the white fabric that you put on and apply the resin is the same one that you use to make fiber works of
I've never used it for a board but for wood a Japanese saw rasp is my favorite shaping tool. They seem to have gone up significantly if price recently tho.
Thanks for all your help so far. Glassed (bottom) my first board (Fish) yesterday, and OMG you were right. The first one is going to be a little messy. Poured the resign (tinted with Teal) on bottom and worked it in and accidentally dropped the resign container on the floor. Time was running out and I still needed to do the rails. That's when it all went to hell. Resign all over the floor on plastic, resign soaked pieces of fiber cloth sticking to everything. Lot and lots of gloves. Finished the rails but my cut laps on the Fish Tail became a nightmare. Resign started to kick. Bottom actually looks OK, but my cut laps are going to be ugly. I couldn't have done it without your help. Thanks. A Retro Fish with Cut Lap was not the best choice for my first board. But Hey!!! it's all down hill now. ;-)
If you put epoxy on the bare substrate first, you get better adhesion. So in this case you’d pull half the fabric back, apply a thin layer of epoxy directly onto the foam, then replace the fabric onto the wet, then repeat the process on the second half. Then proceed with the same process you showed.
Amazing job. Looking forward to attacking mine this week. Thanks for the great information
Excellent series. Much appreciated.
I built a board like this years ago with West Marine epoxy and the pink Home Depot foam. It glassed good at first, but over the years the pink foam gassed out a lot from normal heat exposure (that my PU boards were OK with) and the whole deck delaminated. There are one way vented leash plugs that I would consider if I were to do again. How did your glass hold up?
I hope you noticed that your tape line got way off around the back, before you glassed and cut it. You had about 1 3/4” on the left and about 3/4” on the right!
Hello Andew. Have you applied some fairing between ep5-2 and the ep7? It loop a bit shine and you also have some white zone. Thanks excellent video
Great job
What brand epoxy did you use. That info would really help me with my project....Thank you
hi, i appreciste you grsst vids!!
i wonder what is your experience in terms of epoxy delaminating on XPS blanks? looks like you have already built XPS/epoxy boards in the past with success? what would you suggest to prevent delaminating? there are some infos on the net, however it appears as every shaper has his own good and bad experience as well as own countermeasures... in other words, reading through forums, it is not clear to me how to approach delamination problem...
you can free lap clear resin laminating without tape on this deck and tape the other side save you a lot of bother unless you are using colour in your glass mix
Hi Andrew, what are those three material you are using? I though we need only Epoxy and Hardener (in 2:1 proportion)?
Did you use filler? Before the lamination? If possible please answer asap I have been following this series and am close to this step on my own build. Thanks
Sorry I didn't Catch it but what resin do you use that doesn't cause the foam to melt during cure of the epoxi?
Same!
Clicked through the whole series just to find the answer to this question.
thanks for your videos bro, could you make your annotations available in pdf?
he a giod instructer keep it up buddy
Never use blue tape unless you want the epoxy to bleed thru it. Use the cheaper, high tack green concrete tape. It van take the epoxy heat up
Hello friend, good video, greetings from Cartagena, Colombia. I wanted to ask you what is the name of the white fabric that you put on and apply the resin is the same one that you use to make fiber works of
Woven fiberglass cloth
Nice videos!! What's the difference between the blue epoxy and the one from resin research, or is the blue liquid something else than epoxy?
The blue stuff is the resin, the almost clear stuff in the brown container is the hardener i suppose.
YOU CAN SHARPEN SCISSORS
Did I miss something? or did you fill use filler?
I had the same question. Looks like some light filler.
Did my first one yesterday. Now i see a lot off air bubbles... how can i solve this and how to avoid them?
steven lambert heat gun
Anyone have good tips to find cheap materials for home shaping?
I've never used it for a board but for wood a Japanese saw rasp is my favorite shaping tool. They seem to have gone up significantly if price recently tho.
Where can you get Additive F in Canada?
what's the additive f for? Just to get it more fluid? Sorry if it is a stupid question but I've never heard about additive f
Anyone had issues with additive F melting XPS?
Very like your videos. Thanks for this. Maybe you want to make videos how to make SUP board? :)
Split the tape when your going around a corner
Why are yu using a sharpie cmon man ,its the details that will make your board look good ,like the tape line that you butchered
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Carpenters trick rub baby powder on your arms before doing fiberglass work. it fills in your pores
I did it myself thanks to Stodoys plans.