PART 3- Flex Tail Surfboard Construction Exposed!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ม.ค. 2025
- Part 3 of 3, The secrets behind creating the fabled flex tail or “Squid Tail” are exposed for the first time on YT in this how-to series. Ben from Mystic Glassing demonstrates the Pro tips and techniques behind getting that translucent flexible tail on your next build!
These tails can be any shape or size and any degree of stiffness. Stiffness is determined by the number of glass layers and overall length of the tail.
This PUPE build includes custom glass-on quad fins, resin splash tint with cut laps, resin pin lines and, cork fish scale deck grip, and of course the deluxe Squid Tail!
Thanks for tuning in and watch out for part 2 where the “Deaf Ear, Squid Tail Deluxe” is completed!
YEEW!
Now we want to see your surfing that beast!
Yeew! Thats the last in the flex tail build series until i do another. I thought id spare the sanding footage, its not real interesting. Ill do a detailed "how to sand" video soon.
Hell yeah
Please do! Cheers!
Turned out looking mint!! Thanks for all the pro tips!!!
Thanks mate, my pleasure👍🏼🤙🏽🍻
Niceeee
It does not bleed thru when we do pin lines over the lamination surface?
It does unless you slap on a quick lick of filler and flush it down like i do. If you pinline directly on the textured surface of the cloth it will make an ungodly mess😄
I really like your work and your videos.
With the cork cover, you really don't need to put wax on top?
Greetings from the Canary Islands
Gday Mate, thanks for the kind words! The cork feels really nice and grips well if you keep it roughed up with course sand paper but it obviously doesnt have any "tack" like wax. Its better for cruisier shapes like mals and fish but wax is probably better on high performance boards where super grip is essential. Also, the cork is very harsh on the skin (knees, etc) so best on boards in cold waters where you wear a wetsuit. Stay salty mate🤙🏽
@@cantigasurfco.8549 Thanks for your advice.
On your boards the cork looks very nice.
Health and good waves
It looks amazing! Such a great craft and video editing too! Did the board go to the water already? How does that flex tail performs?
Thanks mate, yeah, this one turned out very nicely and i was pleased with the final result👍🏽 The owner reported that he loves the way it goes so thats what counts🤙🏽
Beautiful work and really nice board !!! well done !! i sucribe your chanel
Thanks mate!!🤙🏽🍻
I've never heard of using a squeegee with a "filler" coat before a full hot coat, but if it takes care of pinholes I'll definitely try that out! What is meant by the "filler" tho, is it the same mixture as regular hot coat?
Gday Sean, yep, it is the same. Here in Australia we call a "hot-coat" a "filler-coat" but they are the same thing. For the videos i decided to refer to the resin used as "filler" and the action/procedure as "hot-coat"... maybe i need to rethink it haha, its probably confusing too many peeps
And yeah, if you squeege a little filler resin into the lam before you hot-coat it fills all the little nooks and crannies in the textured cloth surface that can trap a bubble👍🏼👍🏼
Where are you guys based?
Im currently down in SA for the time being. We've been down here 4 years for work and family stuff but will be breaking out again when the country opens back up...