Day 28 - so that's how that works!

After a late night of reading the Swaylock's website, which contains a wealth of surfboard building information, we tweaked our glassing setup, and re-attacked it with a vigor on Sunday afternoon. We started right after lunch, got the shop cooking again, and prepped all our tools. First up was Kat's board, and we were just a little nervous after the results on Drew's gun Saturday night.

But our revised process worked flawlessly, and the board came out looking like a professional. The logos worked perfect, with the rice paper disappearing and leaving the graphics behind, and the cloth soaked up the resin as it should, leaving a clear, smooth finish all over the bottom and the rails. 30 minutes later, we were finished, and the board looked great! Once we brought the room back up to temp, we tackled my board, and it turned out just as good. We were ecstatic that we got it right, as this critical step (there seems to be a lot of them) could have ruined all our hard work.

This week is a bit of a rest, as there's not quite enough time to glass a board and keep the room up to temperature long enough to let it cure on a week night, but we'll be making sure everything's ready and hopefully finish most of our glassing next weekend.

On a side note, after having his gun rail partially melt off and repair, then having the glass job on his gun go awry, we also put a big gash in Drew's fish while moving it and prepping it for glassing, which meant we couldn't glass it and spent the day bringing it back up to speed. I can't imagine how frustrating this has been for Drew, but he's handled it all with heaps of class and a winning attitude, and we're all hoping we can get his boards fixed up and into the same condition as everyone else's by the time we're done

Attendees: Drew, Justin, Micah (I think), Kat