teammates!

finished glassing top! holy cow so pumped!
hell why not two pics!
putting on two layers of cloth for the topside of the board

so over the past couple of days i have been sanding down my mistakes from glassing the bottom fo the board. got some feedback from guys on a forum and at a shop, and it sounded like i just had to make the best of it. so last night i finished up sanding the edges down to what was actually glassed to the board correctly. woke up early this morning and prepped everything, while mel made breakfast. then WE glassed. yes, mel helped and seriously did awesome. she worked on the white end while i did the green and end where they meet, then i touched up wrapping the rails all around. seriously, i barely told mel what to do and she just watched what i was doing and went for it and did it so good!#@ i'm so pumped right now. the resin didn't gel too quick and actually started gelling at about 35 minutes, which is almost dead on the preferable 30 minute gel time. so as a note, even when the room was at 62 ish degrees, i added 1% catalyst (not 1.5% as i did last time) and it worked out awesome. one thing i did try that you can see in teh video is that after i poured out the resin towards the edges, i flipped up teh edge of the cloth to try to soak up teh excess that way, and uniformly get it on the edge of the cloth. i had read this is how many guys do it and it works well. i tried it on one rail and it didn't seem to help. i think the bottom layer of thecloth got snagged on the top layer as i flipped it back down and it took a second to fix. there are also two small wrinkles on that rail now too, which can be sanded a bit to make them smooth, but i think its because i tried that method on that rail. don't think i'll try that way again really. also, there were a few shiny spots on my end (mel's end was perfect), which basically mean a bit of extra resin is on there, but it's minimal, adn not a big deal. something else to learn from though. my hand was shaking a few times as we went, but i think mel was just having fun- kept saying it was like spreading icing on a cake. so yea, this time, it went off without a hitch. plenty of time to wrap the rails cleanly and deal with the corners. i love melissa maher. pumped.