Fin gash about 7" long into the rail of new board…
Suggestions? I’m assuming…cut away the delammed/broken glass, fill in the “gash” with resin/qcell mixture and/or foam scraps, sand down, reglass, then sand/polish. Anything else?
Your patch recipe sounds good to me. I’d not use foam scraps.
Given the dark glass job, you *might" be able to just sand the edges and get away with about 4 layers of pigmented-to-match 6 ounce over it. Depends on the width of the damage and bond to remaining surrounding glass, your available pot of elbow grease, etc.
was it a classically glassed long board that ran your board over? my friend’s nuuhiwa(piloted by a different friend of his) ran over a merrick and sliced it down to the stringer.
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Given the dark glass job, you *might" be able to just sand the edges and get away with about 4 layers of pigmented-to-match 6 ounce over it.
hi charlie,
ya, i was thinking of that. but i was afraid that just sanding the edges and slapping some glass over the cut (which looks about 1/4" wide) would be a bad shortcut. wouldn’t the glass “sag” over the cut and cause unevenness? i suppose if i use 4 layers it might not. hmmm…decisions decisions.
off topic: i’ll be over in your neck of the world in a few weeks. i’m visiting oahu for the first time the for the first two weeks of november (along with the rest of the world, i’m sure). i can’t wait!!!
kerry
rider,
ha!..no, it was just a mid-6’ range shortboard. if it had been a classic longboard, i’m pretty sure i’d be looking at a slice down to the stringer too.
kerry
Assuming you didn’t glass it yourself, call the glasser and see if he/she can send you enough pigment to do the repair. Much easier matchup if you have the same starting point. Good luck!
surfthis, great suggestion…i’ll try that
Special K you should see what I’m working on tonight, I’ll try to put a picture up later.
Longboard meets thruster, longboard wins. thruster gets a fin gash starting out at about 2 1/2 wide and about 6" deep. last night before going to bed I cut out all the cracked and delamed glass sanded the edges smoth and fitted a foam plug, once the glue was dry I sanded it back and added a little filler. tonight colour match and glass.
Yours doesn’t look big enougth to need a foam plug, filler alone should do the job, carefull if your using epoxy though due to the heat you may want to pour in stages.
If you do ever want to do a foam plug, make sure its a single peice of foam, and is slightly bigger on all side than the hole then force it in, it should stay in place without any tape. Use white glue ot resin to set it in place for good, only use it on the centre so is does’nt sweeze out the sides.
When you fill it up tape up the curved side of the deck round to the rail and pour the filler from the flat deck side.
Do the colour matching in the lam, one layer of glass is fine just to get the colour, sand that back to the very edge of the ding then cover with another 2 layers, I would extend those atleast 2" or 3" all round and lam with clear.
Don’t sweet it though she’ll be fine in the end.
Heres what I was talking about, just finished putting the colours, as the colour is pained on the foam I’ve done it before glassing, Used liquitex arylic mixed with futures (red) and porca pen for the yellow, then gave it a coat of futures to seal 'em, I’ll put the glass on tomorrow then the pinlines back after the fill coat.
How did the longboard fare in that massacre?
Hey Freshwater.
Not sure, its not my board, The guy who brought it to me to fix said the guy on the long board saw him but just surfed over the top of him anyway. Seemed Like a nice guy and a competant surfer.
I’m sure there are two sides to the story though. Its very unusual that people will admit that it was thier own fault and some prone to exagerate the situasion or conditions or just have a diffrent perspecive or recolection of the actual events.
From the way the glass was pusshed in its obvious the damage was done from the top. It’s not my job to judge or attribute blame. Accidents happen, I just put the piece back together again.
From what I’m told both riders were unhurt and the long board was fine and carried on surfing.
Woody,
wow, thats quite a fin gash! thanks for posting the pix. looks like a fun repair.
i think you’re right, i probably won’t need a foam plug. i’ll just use filler like you suggested.
thanks!
kc
Thanks Special K.
Yer I’m enjoyng this one a lot, got the paint on and just need to hot coat, sand and put the pins back and its done.
I’m please with how its going and the owner should be stoked so I’m looking forward to handing it back.
I’ll put a pic up when its done, I dont think it will notice much when its done : )
One last thing…
about the big stripped glass on the deck, would it be possible to just apply some resin underneath on the foam and just reattach the original glass and then put a few layers of 6oz over it? or is the strength already too compromised to bother?
kc
Specialk,
I’ll start with a disclaimer. I’m a student here. Not a teacher.
I’ve fixed a couple broken boards and a few delam’s using the original glass with good success. It really helps to minimize the scar when color is involved.
I use a dremmel tool to clean up the frayed edges and only remove a minimum amount to reduce the scar.
Anywhere there is a tear be sure and check the adjacent glass for delam’. It often pulls up when the tear happens. I use a thin flexible ruler and a Sharpie to probe and mark the perimeter of the delam’. When I’m ready to resin it all back together I use a glue syringe to inject resin under the delam’s. I kick the injected resin slower then the main repair. I think it’s worth it to not leave voids under the glass.
In my limited experience, color matching is really tough. I’ve tried to match resin and I’ve tried to paint the scar to match. I think it depends on how close you’re trying to get.