Friday, August 26, 2011

New handboard

I've been slowly working on this guy lately - a new handboard. This is again out fo the surfboard i found i the alley dumpster. The resin i used on this though is not the polyester resin i'd used on the past handboard and surfboard. i used this stuff called super sap epoxy resin. first off, it's an epoxy, so no volatile organic compounds, and basically no need for a mask when working with it outside, which is great. On top of that though, its base is recycled pine oil, which is a waste-product of bio-fuel processing, which further reduces the impact of making this, and just uses somethign that was going to waste anyways. pretty pumped on it. it still acts like a polyester resin, but it's actually stronger when cured, and yea, i'm just pumped to be using it and getting more familiar with it.

Here's the top all glassed, no hot coat yet, gotta sand some first

view of bottom and a view of how i didnt' match the colors of the green up top very well. i should have mixed a large batch of the both colors, then split it in half, then saved one half to use for the next side when i glassed it. but i was lazy, and am still learnign how much is needed of this stuff, and figured i'd try my luck at matching colors when i glassed the other side... i'm not too good at that obviously... oh well, not selling this or anything.
now all sanded down. ready for hotcoat. you can see the "spine" which is the stringer in it. this is from the stringer in the surfboard. i realized that it's a pain in the butt to deal with it on something this small. on a surfboard, it's not so bad, but keeping this little guy in place while sanding the stringer and not too much of the foam is a pain. won't be using pieces with the stringer in it anymore.
same for bottom. i don't know if sanding it will have any good blending effect of the green colors, but i doubt it... we'll see. think i'm gonna put a fin on this handboard too. more to come

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