Resin Tint with Glitter

brilliant as a theft deterrent idea...but, black absorbs heat and glitter might make it look like a disco ball

 

Sounds queer

 

They make additives you can find wherever you buy your resin. Or check Fiberglass Hawaii.

 

Dude just laminate some hunnits under clear coat instead. That'll let kooks know that you're a real balla. I also dunno how nobody thought of..... Awwww ****...

 

I'll admit I've never done glitter. But I have worked with black a number of times and can tell you a black tint is tough to get right. It get it to black, you have to use a lot of tint, which turns it opaque. Too little pigment and you get grey. The margin of error is very small to get a truly black tint that's not opaque.

Which means... it will likely swallow up your glitter.

A different approach might be to do your black lam, then sprinkle glitter over it when it's still tacky. Hotcoat over that.

 

. You don't come off like the guy that would bedazzle his board.
Are you sure you're not ford?

 

^^^ Haha I'm just giving Arch a hard time for the glitter, I know what he's going for, worth a shot but like others have said, it may be difficult and come out ugly. But kudos for trying!

 

I don't think it goes in the lam, archy.

If you lay out your cloth, and pour glittery resin over it, then squeegee off the excess resin, the cloth will soak up the resin, and you'll pull the glitter off when you pull out the excess. It will, at the very least, be extremely difficult to get the glitter applied evenly, as it is in the picture.

I'm inclined to think the glitter is a separate step, done over the wet lam or, more likely, a fill coat. The hotocat and gloss are laid over the glitter.

Try emailing the glassing company and see if they'll tell you how they do it.

 

I would think you throw the glitter on the foam before you lay the cloth, then resin.
Even if you use black tint, it should still show through.

 

The extra flash may attract large preditors like sharks.

 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=j4NZOnGJ75Q

Go to 3 minutes before the end.

 

Nice find, Scobey... Looks like it works to me. I've also seen a video with some garage guys painting some resin on the foam, then sprinkling glitter on the wet foam... than lamming over that.

What z-Gaff is taking about is called a foam stain. You can use resin or paint.

 

Nothin' wrong with that, brother... looks good. You can get rid of those purple fuzzies inside the black pinline with another, thinner pinline against the black. "Double pinlines"... or even triples... look awesome. Usually you use a third color. Aqua blue looks hot with purple and black.

 

Are you stealing my idea of the SUP with the Lazy Boy and the stripper pole? I hope so!

 

I agree...I glassed a fish one time with a black resin pigment bottom to a cut lap on the deck with a pinline. Everything went smoothly, but every little irregularity in the lamination showed and the sand scratch marks were magnified. I liked the board and after riding it a few times and noticed that every little pressure ding, nothing you would ever repair, and on a light board would be virtually undetectable, distressed the weave enough to show like crazy.

Plus it got hot if you left in in the sun for 10 minutes. No way I'd fool with black again. But the board did look cool.