Resin band & squares

Making 17

This is one of those jobs I wished I had set up the video camera for… i had to paint 17 squares of different coloured resin into a pre-drawn silver grid using a set of rules created by artist Peter J Evans for his board.

I used 4 pots of tinted resin (no wax so I can gloss straight over), a fine brush,  and it took 3 mixes as they just kept going off quicker than i could paint them in. The brief was to keep it loose, like the original piece called “Making 40” where the colours were loosely sketched over a graph paper grid.

I love the result and hopefully Pete will too. Gonna be hard to wax this one!

Let me see your geometry

Which?

3 colourways for HG to chose from for his Atlantic POD EVO5 bonzer… decisions decision…

Any views out there?

  

Rising Sun

    

More resin…

Todays resinations…Black resin pinlines, then a copper bronze resin-wash… ready for some serious deconstruction and inkwork next week…

 

To gloss or not?

The Rising Sun resin band is coming together nicely, just lots of time consuming stages with waits in between… today saw the the copper bronze cigar bands go on (love metallic pigments!), tomorrow some textural translucent copper bronze, and hopefully black pinlines, time allowing.

I’m loving how it is looking and now even a bit nervous about “deconstructing” it… and NOT glossing it… really?

  

Rising Sun resin band…

 

Rising Sun resin band underway... I always underestimate how long these take; this one is particularly complex... red complete, copper bronze to add, followed by some “deconstruction”, a little ink, and pinlines to finish... its going to be a few more days!

I’m “out”… I love a longboard!

Shovel(flex)nose bonzer EVO6 longboard… I have to say (and please bear in mind I am a shortboarder) that I LOVED this longboard… form the first take-off the board felt incredibly intuitive and had me walking up to the nose so easily. It is really stable up front due to the quite parallel rail line from the shovel nose and seemed to allow me more time up there than was reasonable, especially for a shortboarder! It would turn from the middle very naturally too, which was unexpected, and off the tail i could easily pull it into roundhouses. I have only ridden it as an EVO6 with MR rears so far and it works so well I am wondering if I’ll ever get a single fin in the box! And of course then there’s the resin band… straight off a lovely Havana Corona. If I was to make a tweak it would be to lower the rail apex just a touch through the rear 1/3 of the board for even more sensitivity…

It’s a very special board that has far exceeded my expectations and made me seriously question what board to pull out when the surf’s good! So I’m “out”… I love a longboard!

The Joker, finished…

9’2” x 22 7/8” x 3”. Resin tint with clear nose inlay. Resin “cigar band” with metallic and double pinlines. Wood bonzer EVO5/6 runners in American Ash for positive buoyancy. FCS EVO6 or single fin 10” box for a more traditional ride.

Shovel flex nose with a teardrop concave, through into rolled V in the middle and double concave with bonzer feeders exiting the narrow square tail. Soft rails through to hard.

This board has taken some time – the resin bands alone being a bit of a labour of love…  it’s complex, it’s complicated, it flies in the face of fashion and their is a lot for people to get their head around. My favourite board ever (and its a longboard!) I love it…

     

Resin band…

Just pinlined… looks like we should have this one in the water immediately after the Fish Fry; can’t wait to see how the metallic bronze bands polish up.

Thanks to Chris, Daz and Adam for their collective assistance on the bits they do much better than me…

Resin bands…

Nearly finished the resin bands… then just pinlines, gloss and polish to finish this one off finally. Been a little slow as had to prioritise the fish for September 17th Fry… more pics of those soon.