Hot Coat and Sanding - Surfboard Glassing [Part 2 of 7]

Applying the hot coat and sanding a surfboard. I applied the hot coat using a 3” chip brush with polyester sanding resin and taped off the rails with Indasa masking tape. Sanded with 150 grit sandpaper to prep for pin lines and a gloss coat. Surfboard dimensions are 6' x 20.5 x 2.5. I've only glassed a handful of boards and am not an expert but this glassing process works for me.

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I love surfing, building with my hands and making videos. Bendheim Boards is my outlet to fuel these passions. I'm self-taught and am not an expert, but these videos show the process that works for me. Follow along for new videos every month!

[garyh]

I gave making surfboards a try and it is a lot harder than it looks.
The stringers are hard to get flat without nicking the foam.
The foam dents/tears when you breath on it.
The fiberglass is hard to cut straight.
It's hard to get the resin on the rails before it turns to gel.
The resin burns!!!
Sanding laminate is like sanding chewing gum.
:)
Still trying and getting better, though.

[jay-arjapantravelvlog]

Keep it up bro thanks for sharing 🤙🤙🤙

[joaoacolonnezi]

Great content! Learning so much! How is the board gonna be if after laminating the fiberglass, I apply one epoxy coat 2/1 epoxy hardener without sanding it? Functional?

[Smithsurfboards]

Damn I need a polisher, been slaving away at a longboard with an orbital palm sander

[dmac]

Question when taping, you taped half way on deck rails and when heading to the tail you blocked off the entire bottom?

When you did bottom coat where did you place your tape line, on the unsanded hot coat portion or above the unsanded line?

[geophphd]

Hi Tanner, awesome vids, I'm learning a lot. Been successfully doing repairs and looking at re laminating the underside of a board soon. A couple of questions, .. Can you use laminating resin as a hot coat as opposed to sanding resin. And does it matter if you sand through your hot coat, how do you avoid it or know that you won't?
Cheers mate keep up the great content!

[alexsmerdon]

Hey really cool content what do you use for the logo? Is it rice paper?

[suyadnyateguh]

Can we see you surfing with your finished board?

[aaronruiz]

How long do you wait between hot coating deck and bottom?

[klickstein]

Thank you for doing these videos, your boards are beautiful. I'm about to glass my first board, it's a wood-wrapped foam core, redwood and basswood. My question is this, after you sand the hotcoat with 150 grit is it possible to bring it to a high polish at that point, or do you have to put a gloss coat on to achieve a high polish?

[נטעקהתי]

very helpful vid but what is in the little bottle you add to the poly
is it hardener?

[sebastianduelund]

a quick question, why did you sand it down after you put coat on it?
love the vids

[chrisgalluzzo]

Your hot coat almost looks like its pouring on thick do you let it kick a bit before you start pouring?

[valentinaalvarez]

Hey there. Been watching your videos for a while and I’ve been working on shaping boards myself. I am working on sanding a longboard I shaped and glassed and I’m having some trouble with scratch marks. It seems that as I increase the grit, I can still see the scratch marks from the lowest grit. Do you have any advice? I tried a few different things but nothing seemed to work yet.

[Boom-oqyj]

How do you clean up the sanding dust to make it clean for pinlines and sealing, if denatured alcohol isn’t an option (they don’t sell it in my state)? Thanks!

[kenzhong]

How long do you let it sit before taking the tape off.

[rodrigoboro]

Você está ficando fera nisso meu amigo!!! Deixa eu te fazer uma pergunta... Eu só pego onda de long, Mas tenho muita vontade de conseguir pegar com pranchinha também... Como você me sugere fazer essa transição? Tenho 99kg como seria o melhor tipo e tamanho de prancha?

[Auto]

What pads are you using for the different steps on your polisher/sander?

[rodrigoboro]

Tanner precisei fazer um reparo na prancha e no local ficou fosco após dar a lixa d'água... Como posso fazer pra dar brilho alí pra ficar mais parecido com o resto da prancha?

[harrisonwilson]

What’s the best grit to sand at first, straight after a hot coat