board 1: Logos

I designed two logos in Powerpoint, printed them onto rice paper, wet the paper with epoxy and laminated a piece of 4 ounces fiberglass on top. Used HP's faderesistant Vivera ink and RR BLUE epoxy w/ UV absorber, to protect the design from the sun. Printed color's came out bright and strong, and didn't run. Some small air bubbles trapped under the round logo, I think too late to fix now.

I bought the rice paper as a roll at Michael's - had to ask three different clerks, as the first two denied they had rice paper. The third clerk who came to my rescue turned out to be a graphic designer who was interested in painting surfboards!

Mixed up 1 1/2 ounces of resin, used about half. Used fast hardener this time, still plenty of time to work with but dry and hard to the touch an hour later.

board 1: Tail Patch

I sanded down the resin and glass used to glue in the fin boxes, and laminated a tail patch over the bottom end of the board as shown in the picture. The green strips you see are just tape used to cover the box opening. This will come off when I sand open the boxes later on.

I used that V shape patch so as not to provide a line where the board is likely to break, but after posting a picture on swaylocks.com someone commented that there was still too much of a line. Hm...

The stretch lamination in combination with the future fins was very tricky, as the stretching of the cloth would produce a cloth tent over the protruding lips of the fin boxes. I had to use a lot of resin and massage the cloth around the boxes to make it stick down, and to get out all the air bubbles under the cloth. The result is ok - I got all the bubbles out - but not ideal, as some tenting remains. I may end up sanding into the cloth when opening up the boxes, making the fin area weak. So I'm considering another layer of reinforcement glass ("football patches") to be on the safe side.

Already forgot how much resin I used for this, 2 ounces?