Hot Tip of the Day

     When you set off a batch of hot resin to do, say, a glass roving leash loop on the tail of your new fish, for example, and you have all your stuff set out on the deck of your board (on wax paper so as to protect the surface), try to keep in mind, as you stand back thinking the job is done, that the container with the leftover resin is probably getting very hot, especially if you had too much resin in there in the first place, and that it would be a good idea to remove it from the surface of the board. If you don't keep this in mind, you will end up with a nice size crater on your board, complete with weakened glass and foam and a nice greenish-brown burn circle on you nice new board. Lesson learned. Oh well, at least it's on the deck, where there will probably be pressure dings anyway. If this was on the bottom I'd be really heartbroken.

P.S. I cannot recommend seeing Captain America, but I can recommend its unfaltering patriotism. U.S.A!