I have seen many topics regarding this but couldn't get the best way to print on fiberglass fabric.
How can i print digitally directly on fabric ? I know a friend who have a large eco solvent printer for stickers ... Can i use this to print on the fabric directly ? Using eco solvent ink !!
Is there's any advantages for using fiberglass fabric prints instead of normal fabric ( cotton or silk ) ?
There is a company that provides this service in Orange Co. Calif. can't remember their name. "Pro-lams ?? Maybe?
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"Board Lams" is the company best known for doing this process in California.
https://www.boardlams.com
They can print on fiberglass or rice paper just about anything you want. The advantage over printing on the fiberglass is that it provides strength relative to the ounce of fiberglass being used as part of the total glass job. It can be a bit tricky taping off and/or positioning the printed layer you inlay onto the board, but this is also true of doing fabric inlays.
I offer both, and the multi colored photo is of a bottom reef that Michael de Nicola did a painting of while one of his frequent travels. Michael "I am Torquto" de Nicola is a retired pro surfer that rides my boards and is an uber artist based in Los Angeles. He also paints the boards I build him with his distinctive artwork which is in galleries around the world. He regularly travels & surfs exotic locations while making appearances & doing showings at the galleries that showcase his work in places like New York, Hawaii, Amsterdam and other locations. He frequently combines those trips to surf Northern Sumatra, Fiji, Nias, Mentawais, Hawaii, Mexico, Costa Rica among other locations
The other photos of the red & orange deck designs with black rails are done with 100% cotton fabric that I shop for & buy in limited amounts so that I don't make 20 boards with the same color design. There is also a foto of a custom 10'0" BF New machine using Dia De Los Muertos fabric my customer supplied. Being a dedicated custom shaper of many yeats (shaped my 1st board in 1959), at this stage of the game for me i have moved away from supplying a lot of shop accounts and am focused on handshaping customs that I still send to a worldwide customer base. The boards pictured are a 6'0" & 6'8" for Derek Thomas, my Brand Amabassador who travels extensively holding Holistic Breathing & Yoga Clinics. Derek is also an accomplished musician,, writing & performing his own music. His original music has appeared in Hollywood movies, he has enjoyed regular radio airplay in Hawaii, and he has performed everywhere from Nias to Nashville to Malibu and then some. At 45, he is also an extraordinary surfer which attests to the benefits of the Holistic Clinics he holds worldwide. (Pictured here surfing the fabric boards in Nicaragua).
DEREK'S 6'0%22 DOUBLE ENDER FABRIC 1 2020.jpg
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I spaced on the Board Lam one that Michael de Nicola had done: Here's the story on it and the end result!
Michael Torquato DeNicola
December 20, 2019 ·
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The artwork on this @fowlersurfboards was created by making a imprint from the Reef in the Southern Mentawais Islands. The imprint became a painting and the artwork was transferred onto fiberglass cloth. This custom board is a commissioned holiday gift.
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Outta this World bradda!! That last one would even make me like pink. (I did own a Brotherhood/Bruce Jones shape that had a Strawberry bottom) All are very tasteful artistically. My compliments on the shapes and finish.. Saw a bunch of your blanks down at the "Bear" in O'side two or three weeks ago, loaded and ready to go North with Abel at the wheel. Lowel
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