I have a little project going on where I will be covering a surfboard with epoxy and had a few questions.
Normally when doing a flood coat, you must have a flat, level surface before pouring because it needs to level out and settle. Now if I’m only doing a seal coat, or multiple seal coats, is this stuff manageable enough to apply over a curved non-level surface like a surfboard in order to get an even coat. I only need it to be about 1/16" think to get rid of the ridges from photos being embedded on the board.
Any suggestions or previously used methods that worked well?
Use a hair drier 10-12 inches away to get it to set up faster. Tape the edge to keep it from running off and after it sets up but before it hardens just pull the tape and roll the edge with your scraper.
Right, you’ll tape the edge to get a uniform seam instead of drips. Use your scraper to feather it around the edge. When its dry flip and do the other side and overlap the original coating. You’ll have to have an overlap somewhere, unless you can stand it on its tail, nose in the air.
Ok so a brush is fine. For a gel clearcoat, how thick can it be applied? The only thing I’m trying to get rid of is the ridges from laying down photos in a collage. So it doesn’t have to be like 1/8" thick or anything like that, just enough to make it even.
then i would just go and get a gravity feed harobr freight HVLP spray gun and grab some epoxy/catalyst clear from your local autobody supply. it will definately cover pics. no matter what you do you are going to be able to feel that edge. any coating you apply is going to add the same thickness to the top of the pic as it does the rest of the board.
1.) don’t flood coat w/ a dam. You will not get a uniform thickness with a curved surface
2.) Brushing the epoxy will be sufice, may take 2 coats, but 1/16" isn’t very thick for epoxy.
3.) Recommend to do it in a cooler spot…like your basement. If you can get it in an area where it’s about 65° would be ideal. The warmer it is, the thinner your coat will be…any cooler and it’ll take exponentially longer to cure.
4.) re-read instruction No.1
edit:
if you are trying to cover pics…you’ll need to sand and rebrush another coat to get a smooth surface as dirtye30 mentioned.
Well that’s why I was going to use something like epoxy since it’s much thicker and would easily cover that up. I’m just wondering if it’s consistency will allow it to be put on in thinner layers yet still come out perfectly smooth.
Beautiful. That’s exactly what I needed to know. Thank you Josh. :tup:
I wasn’t about to flood coat with a dam, there’s no way I’d get two seperate sections to match up. I’m going to order this stuff and hopefully get this shit done soon. I’ll post a DIY when it’s all said and done.
