Solarez Matte Finish

[mark poulson]

Here's a fun deal....not.

I just posted a photo of some Poe's cranks I repainted for a friend in the Hard Baits gallery.  He bought them for $1 apiece, because they were rejects, with the bills installed twisted.  So I heated them and straightened them, and made the centerline of the bill and the hook hangers line up. 

I didn't strip them to bare wood, just added some belly weight to make them slow rise, bondo, Wicked White basecoat, Createx colors, and Solarez dipped once.  I used Solarez to reinforce the bills, which may have been weakened by being heated and twisted.

I found that there was crude floating and suspended in my Solarez, after I dipped the first batch of brown/purple and red/orange baits.  I have been dipping with it open, and letting the resin drip back into the dipping jug.  Evidently the reflected UV rays from outside hit the dripping resin, and started it setting up.  I would up with icebergs floating and suspended in my resin.

So I closed the overhead garage door, poured the resin through a scrubby netting as a screen into a tupperware, cleaned my black dip jug with some acetone, sloshed around and poured out, and then poured the screened resin back into my dip jug. 

If I had had some finer mesh I would have used it, but I just used what I had on hand.

i dipped the last two, the bluegills, in the strained resin.  There were only a few tiny particles left.

I will not be dipping with the overhead garage door open from now on.  

Lesson learned.

[Nathan]

Mark,

Aren't you glad it wasn't that new 90.00 stuff you did that too?..lol..Nathan

[mark poulson]

Mark,

Aren't you glad it wasn't that new 90.00 stuff you did that too?..lol..Nathan

Nathan,

I felt bad enough, not listening to the surfboard maker's warning.  I was lucky I didn't ruin all of it.

If it cost that much I would have been really pissed.....at myself!  Hahaha