that looks amazing
how did you go about stripping off the glass
and did you just paint the blank white or did you sand it down to the good foam
very nice
and what SDrepairman said......
I guess my first question would be why you'd restore a late 90's Webber?
Nice job. As for questions about restoring a 90’s board I guess I would say “why not”. Would it be better to send it to the landfill? Mahady is a craftsman. I can dig where he is coming from.
I take old beater shortboards headed for the dump and bondo them up. Then I grainpaint them and put a wire on so they become wall hangers in the true sense of the word. I sell em in the antique mall for $250 on average. I am amazed more of you don’t try it.
Thank you guys for the kind words
The rails where sanded wirh 36 grit down into the fiberglass to make for easier removal, Bill Shrosbree shaped this so I wanted to keep his shape intact. Filled the holes, sanded it then painted it with a acrylic urethane that bonds well with poly. Got new lams from Shane Weber " Dewey’s Son" then made a lam of Shros’s dimensions. Fiberglassed, hot coated, blue gloss resin cigar pinlines, gloss coat.
The reason I restored this board is I got paid to do it.
My client had one when he was young and it got stolen, he found this one and I made a duplicate of the one he had when he was a kid.
It’s not how old the board is, it’s how young it makes you feel when it takes you back to a moment in time when life was good
Tom
Tom,
I'm with ya.. I've had guys spend up to $500 to get that kind of a job on a daily rider. Some guys just don't want to loose a magic surfboard.
Where did you get the laminates?
Thank you Resin Head
I got the lams from Dewey’s son. Sorry I meant Shea Weber.
I visited Tom’s shop yesterday to drop off some blanks and got to see this restored board first hand. Guess the owner hasn’t picked it up yet. Gotta say the board is on par with brand new Bings and Jacobs sold at a local shop - and it was a busted up restoration!! The attention to detail is unreal and there is not a square centimeter on this board this is not perfect. It takes a lot to impress me but I’m blown away by the excellent work Tom has done to this board.
Hat’s off to Mahady
~Brian
"It’s not how old the board is, it’s how young it makes you feel when it takes you back to a moment in time when life was good
Tom"
well said, Tom, and props to ya…rode a Performer for a while back in the dayz, not an exceptionally great board, absolutely an exceptionally great time.
Gawd, I sold performers back then, 1970-whatever. And yes, I see one and its a step back to then. So many things …that the statute of limitations has hopefully expired opon.
Back when I had hair on my head and not my back, Jim Phillips really was a gremmie just starting to follow his dream and…well, surf groupies were a wonderful thing.
I have to say I miss that…and the hair on top
doc…
Great work Tom. I do resto’s the same way; for really old ones I paint the blanks to look like yellow-brown foam. If the original mfgr. isn’t around anymore, we scan the logos/artwork and trace them using Adobe or Corel to get a vector image and print new ones. Not everyone will do this sort of restoration work, often it’s more labor than making a new board from scratch. But using your skill to bring back memories for someone else is very special. I restored Dewey’s last board for Shea a few years back. It was stolen and then found some time later completely hammered in Mexico. Couldn’t skin that one, but spent over a year of tedious masking of signatures, spraying 2 colors, lots of pinlines, rebuilding channels in the nose, etc. It was worth it when I took it out of bag at the Weber shop for Shea.