Hacker Repair - Saving Mistakes

General Discussion
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I must confess: I'm a hacker and a half!

Brought my router around too fast around a pintail I was doing. Tore up the stringer tip: Photo below

Grabed a piece of wood scrape and made a new tip to cover up my hack job. Now I can send this out to the airbrusher to spray it and mask off the tip and let it be a part of the design. The guy wanted his board 9'0 exactly. Instead of throwing the blank out I was able to save it and give the customer a 9'0 Pin tail as ordered. Hopefully he doesn't reject the board for the mini tail block?

Photo's below:


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Hacker repair:


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Pro: when the repair looks better than the original.

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Well done, Surfding. This is my philosophy: when you make a mistake, just draw the attention all the more onto it. When inlaying false stringers in PierreB’s board, I had not realized that the curve was a bit too much for them to follow. As a result, both “stringers” would tend to move away from the “real” center stringer at the nose. Bummer. Not much could be done except hiding it nicely by inlaying a piece of red cedar over the stringers, and pretend it was done on purpose to enhance the board… (Of course, I told PierreB).

 

 

 

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From "Perception" thread...

 

"I just do not play in the same field."

 

Yeah Guilhem... you're right.  Come to think of it, your boards suck.  LOL

 

 

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A college professor once told me that… “It’s not how good you are, it’s how good you cover your mistakes.”  I live by it every day,

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Balsa: Thanks for sharing. I love your work. Your stringers are bar none. Can you post your bandsaw?

I was kind of bummed when I wacked the tail. Luckly I had some tail blocks glued up with some 5 minute epoxy in my shaping bay handy.

Your repair looked to be  more involed!

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Good Advice!

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Yes, sure. Very basic do-it-yourselfer tool, but works quite OK for what I have to do with it (cutting balsa and red cedar strips for Mr Paul Jensen’s workshop, miscellaneous tail-blocks and stringers work…)

 

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Nice Tool!

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    Howzit surfding, If the person had ordered the board with a nose block it would have cost them a pretty penny so just tell him you were feeling good and added the wood for free, should be stoked, I would be.Aloha,Kokua

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Thanks Kokua!

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Hi Kokua:

Today the customer pick up his board and was suprised to see the tail block and the Gloss and Polish. He didn't order a Tail Block or a Polish. I thought for sure he would reject it. However he actually was stoked?

Anyway at least he didn't reject it!

 

 



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Whoa, the guy must be a pretty open minded dude, judging by the creative spray he went for.

Beautiful work! That design really goes zzzzzzzing!

I think the tail block suits the whole look, tops it all off with a bit of elegance in the midst of the madness.

 

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  • I mean that the colour design is awesome, it’s good madness, not bad!!!
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Hard to say from the photos, but didn’t you forget the hole for the leash rope? (Happens to me all the time…)

If I was your customer, I would ask for a deal (“I didn’t want no f…ing tailblock nor polish!”)

Kidding. Great job.

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He ordered a sand finish. I went ahead and did a gloss and polish because I messed up and tried to make good on a screw up. I made money just not as much I would have liked. However this is his 4th board in 2 years he's ordered from me plus I've sold another 10 longboards this year from his contacts so I couldn't afford to piss him off. The airspray is bit wild however you do what the customer wants. He charges big waves so he should stand out? This is a Longboard Gun.

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amazing!  ive got a blank laying around that is a cutdown longboard,i was going to make a kitesurf board out of it,but i fancy an egg...i recon a tail block would give me the few inches i need( yes i know,but how else do you say it..lol!!!)