Paint your base
Posted: Thu Dec 25, 2014 5:01 pm
The other day I found myself with nothing to do and headed to the shop to clean up a bit. My son just finished a build and it looked nice. With one set of cores left, I decided to build the same ski and give it a try. Full symmetrical park type ski, 130-108-130 early rise tip and tail with camber underfoot. Knowing I don't ski park I did not want to use some of the"pretty" base material. Having plenty of the clear, I decided to use it. Routed it out and attached the edges. Then I thought about painting something on the bottom of the wood core. Hitting the pages here looking for information about this. I came across a post about using water based acrylic paint and painting the base material.
Paint is cheap so I gave it a try. Made a design as I went along and kinda flood coated over it with black to hide the VDS and maybe the edge material. remember the edges were already attached? So I was very careful to not get paint on the edges until... then it was all out slop the paint on. Not caring if it got on the edge teeth or not. Completed the lay-up, mounted with tele and gave them a try. Pretty fun until I pulled one of the screws. Here are the pics of the skis and the painting of the bases. I'm really interested in how they hold up bonding wise as it will be fun coming up with other designs for the bases.
Ready for lay-up. note the text is printed on rice paper..
Heading to the press.
Out of the press.
First look at the painted bases.
Base paint.
Text on rice paper.
sample of base paint. note I did not paint the area exposed by tip spacer. I figured it was black anyway so why paint it? Now I know, Paint it!
Hot coat and ready to go!
Paint is cheap so I gave it a try. Made a design as I went along and kinda flood coated over it with black to hide the VDS and maybe the edge material. remember the edges were already attached? So I was very careful to not get paint on the edges until... then it was all out slop the paint on. Not caring if it got on the edge teeth or not. Completed the lay-up, mounted with tele and gave them a try. Pretty fun until I pulled one of the screws. Here are the pics of the skis and the painting of the bases. I'm really interested in how they hold up bonding wise as it will be fun coming up with other designs for the bases.
Ready for lay-up. note the text is printed on rice paper..
Heading to the press.
Out of the press.
First look at the painted bases.
Base paint.
Text on rice paper.
sample of base paint. note I did not paint the area exposed by tip spacer. I figured it was black anyway so why paint it? Now I know, Paint it!
Hot coat and ready to go!