super sap aint cheap either ,Silmar still cheapest way to go but i lIke the RR cuz its just so easy to use with hardly any odor at all and for homebuilders that can be a big plus in itself
This is my 9’6” RB ledge runner and that’s all custom resin tint - he just mixed batches of those colors and poured them down on the bottom and worked them through with squeege and then did his hot coat. I imagine you could do something very similar and just use a brush or small flat tool to swirl and pull and then let the colors blend as the resin sits and kicks. Then finish coat with clear resin . Maybe I’m way wrong but seems a fairly ok idea no?
The skil is of course the standard by which all other planers are judged ,but they are real expensive now ,no longer made and getting harder to get parts for,ive got an older clark modified hitachi and its a great tool Whichever planner you get its a big work saver ,to hack away on a blank with a sureform tool and sandpaper will take a lot longer it can get lumpy and the rails bands are just so much cleaner and smoother when their cut versus sanded.
I've been lucky enough to accumulate a nice collection of planers over the years. 3 Skil 100s a Rockwell and a Hitachi that I modified. My early boards were done with an un-modified Ryobi. For someone starting out a very inexpensive planer from Harbor Freight would be just fine.....in fact some of the .com shaping suppliers are selling what amount to modified Harbor Freight planers.
I started with an old Craftsman planer from Sears... which was very similar to the Skil planer. I wish I still had it, but I lent it out to my brother-in-law and never got it back. I have a Skil now, but for a few years in between I used a Bosh. You want to look at amperage... the Bosch has 6.5 amps. Most other inexpensive planers have 6 or less. Ease of depth adjustment, max depth, and number of blades on the barrel (2 is better than 1) are also things to look for.
I'm not knocking the work of the guy who mods these planers but you can buy the un modified planer on line for about $40 and for a few bucks at the local hardware store you can do the same depth control mod that I did to my Hitachi. Pretty sure I spent less than $15 to do the depth control mod and there are videos on YouTube with very good instructions on how to do it: https://shapersupply.com/collections/surfboard-planers/products/modified-wen-surfboard-planer Or buy on-line and mod yourself or use it as-is: https://www.amazon.com/WEN-6530-Ele...ds=wen+planer&qid=1551963239&s=gateway&sr=8-2
Here's some recent color work. The fish is epoxy... I tinted the deck sky blue (inlay), and did a brown bottom with some of the same sky blue swirled in. The pinlines are black and orange paint under the top deck lam (there's tip for y'all right there). This shot is post-hotcoat, pre-sanding. It has glassed on marine ply keels.
This is poly. Two-tone tint bottom (brown and yellow/green... you can see the rail wrap where the tail is brown and the rest is yellow), with a resin swirl inlay deck. Wood tail block. Double pinlines are paint again.
Just talked to Greg, he says the boart is done and sitting there, been meaning to tell me but has been too busy lol So I'm going to try and scoop her up this weekend. I should have a pic from him soon, he said he'll be posting it on Instagay too. He had to bring an old dude out of retirement to polish it, he said they haven't done a glossed twin fin in a long time.
I have that wen planer. Im doing the mods myself when i have the time. Saw the modified one and said screw that. I'l just do it and save some dough
From experience, i have no idea. But i was doing some reading on sways (this is where i found out about the modified version of the wen). Apparently a pretty big head over there said the modified wen is quite comparable to the Hitachi. At least from what i remember reading. I'll go find the link and add it on this post Edit, he compared it to a skil not Hitachi. Post #9 https://www.swaylocks.com/forums/modified-wen-planer
That is really beautiful! That's the type of effect im hoping for. Except green instead of red and white instead of black. Im guessing you swirled the black into the red (one bucket)? Every board iv seen that had that sort of swirl seems to have done it that way. I think that's the way i'll try. Realize it's poly but if i can get even close to that type of effect with epoxy i'll be happy.
Yes... pour your accent color(s) into your base color, and give it a couple figure 8 swirls with a stick. Don't over mix it. Then pour it out with a bit of pattern to your pour. Use LOTS of resin. Epoxy swirls don't get the color separation you get with poly. That's just how it is. They tend to blend together a bit no matter what you do. But you can still get decent results... just not like you get with poly.
