jp747 said...>>>>>.do i pad it with slice material(used in making thongs or flipflops) or sandpaper or other weird stuff i heard like grounded flourescent bulbs or sugar
Ground light bulbs??????? Yuk!
I use castor sugar ( It's the 2nd finest sugar, you can get, 1 up from icing sugar, my wife says it's used in cooking), on my boards, works fine. The trick is getting the right thickness of resin on first.
Too thin and the sugar doesn't stick too thick and you have to add too much sugar.
Brush it on with long even strokes, you should just feel a little drag on the brush, resin thickness about half that of sugar grain.
Sprinkle sugar on until it stops going transparent, I use an old Milo tin with holes punched in the lid.
When the resin is fully cured brush excess sugar off and wash.
Surfboard quality resin will give the best results, but if you're not worried about it going brown, anything else will do.
I'm now putting the sugar on the final coat of 2 pack urethane paint.
am opting for slice material however as i went out the door i saw i had roughly half a pint of r10/60 rigid resin and since decrep mentioned castor sugar might as well try...this island being a sugar plantation island first time i've heard of castor
if i went to the grocery tomorrow for sure the attendants would look me blank in the eye
i called up a skimboarder here and asked her where she got here pads and says it came with board and branded dk which could only mean one thing dakine and sure is expensive
not to worry i have another inexpensive place that makes made to order sandals or flipflops of any color and creation you can think of, am sure they can sell 1X1 ft. of this stuff..
but if you explain to the 3rd worlders maybe it would make sense
