This is a personal board we just finished. Any ideas on how long a black board might last? Austin has been dying to build this board for years. It will be fun while it lasts!
black attracts heat …so as long as you can keep it out of the sun and other hot places i guess its ok…looks cool thats for shure.
Wow…pretty stick. I like the smoke effect.
I once sat on a beach for a somewhat inebriated ( stoned as a rat, to be exact ) August afternoon around 1970 or so, watching as a black Greg Noll Cat delaminated. You could see the bubbling glass move, sorta like watching pancakes cook or cheese on pizza bubbling in an oven. It was kinda fascinating, though at that point in time just about anything was fascinating.
I’d get a reflective board bag, real soon, and keep the board in that when it’s not indoors or in the water. And use wax that’s a grade or two warmer than the water actually is, like substituting ‘warm’ for ‘cool’ and ‘tropical’ for ‘warm’.
hope that’s of use
doc…
i have a navy blue board, its not bad. it does not delaminate and the wax holds just the same. i dont leave it out in the sun for long periods of time, just surf it and keep it in my house, just like every other board i own. dark boards look awesome.
It’ll last as long as you keep it out of the sun… driving around town with it on the roofracks will terminate it real quick, so will pretty much any major sun exposure out of the water. Keep it inside a reflective board bag, like doc says. We used to play around with a few carbon boards, I remember one of them got left in the sun and it delamed really bad. Also, another thing was that they would get very hot amazingly fast carrying them a couple blocks the the beach… other than that no probs. -Carl
Got a resin tinted Black board which looks bitched, faired ok at present but i try to keep her out of the sun where possible,but this is England and its not to hot. Shows up loads of fingermarks though.
Worse board for heat exchange i ever had was as board made with aluminium woven into the cloth. bloody strong but the wax would drip off in the water due to the mirroring effect.
Yo Doc…maybe the old hot wax trick with parrafin?Those old black Nolls had all the black done over the hotcoat then glossed and polished.Heavy as hell but great looking.I used to do a lot of black competition bands and resin color panels.Now they use acrylic I guess.
Y’know, wth the current fanaticism about lightweight this and that, I’ll confess that I’m a little surprised by the fact that people are still using great ugly globs of wax when a thin, light layer brushed on when hot would do the job at least as well. Lost art, perhaps, like adze work.
I tend to stay away from black…though you never know what the next one will be. Besides the Noll I watched self-destruct, I had a few more modern boards come in, clear ( and lightly glassed) but with big, black maker’s graphics on them, and after a little beach time they became really nifty little bas-reliefs, puffed up loose from the foam.
Ah well… time to go make some chips…
doc…
Doc is so right about the wax/weight thing. I finally scraped all my wax off of one of my HP longboards… and weighed it. A little under 3/4 lb. What a joke! If you want a light board scrape that built up wax off!