Ok, old longboard gone brown. Painted it with emulsion paint, you know the stuff for walls, covered with poly resin, sanded, finished etc. After a year or so paint is pealing away from board beneath taking top coat with it! Will now sand off (my favourite job) and start again. How should I do it this time? Any ideas? Thanks
Sand the board down almost down to the fiberglass weave. Start with 80 then move to 120. I would then “paint” some opaque resin panels on either side of the stringer which will cover all the old gnarly foam. Use gloss resin and lots of pigment. Tape off the stringer, then along the rail at its apex. Lay down your pigmented gloss resin. Peel tape, let cure and then flip the board and repeat on the bottom. Light sand the panels with 220 and the bead where the top and bottom panel meet. Then gloss over the whole thing. It will look super cool! There is tons more info on resin panels in the archives. This is a tricky procedure kinda but its super cool. Check out this link
http://classicbingsurfboards.com/bing-surfboards/classic-bing-restorations/
I am mostly in agreement with surfer O. But I would use sanding resin that’s been thinned out a bit to do the colors. Gloss resin is expensive, and since it will be sanded to accept another coat it won’t have any gloss, anyway. When I was doing production glassing we used sanding resin for colors. This was the mid 60s when panels were very common. surfer o describes the method well. The trick is to get the tape adhered well so you have no bleed on the stringer. And, the other trick is pulling the tape at the right time. Too early, you get a mess. Too late, and it’s difficult to remove and often leaves bits of tape shreds. Makes for more work.
Thanks guys, that’s what I thought. Do it properly this time!! There are quite a few dents on the bottom, so I wondered maybe a really thick, sludgy mix of resin and filler squeegeed (is there such a word?) across the dents to level then lightly sand before doing colour panels. What you think?
Hey Pete,
I don’t see any reason why you can’t do that, except that it is going to add unnecessary weight to the board. But if you want the board to look really smooth I would go for it. but if any of those dents are delaminated I would definitely fix the delams properly first because its not worth doing all that resin work if there are delaminations underneath. Can we see pics of the board you are planning to restore?