Knee board restoration help

[mgcorrei]

Hi i’m working on restoring this old kneeboard to its former glory.  You can see the bottom was pretty screwed up and the nose / tail were missing some big chunks.  I mixed up some qcell and rebuilt the nose and tail and leveled out all those craters ont the bottom. Next i lamintated both sides today just straight over the old glass.  The idea was to make a really dark tint to hide all the damage on the bottom.  However the tint turned out to be slightly transparent and i can still see the damage some what through it.  I probably would have been better off just airbrushing the bottom, however i do love resin tints.  Any advice about how to better hide these repairs before i go onto hot coat it?  thanks.

[mattwho]

Nice to see!

Post up the finished job!

Bob (the Greek) Bolen might

get a thrill…

Thanks for posting!

[SammyA]

@$1

I lamintated both sides today just straight over the old glass.  The idea was to make a really dark tint to hide all the damage on the bottom.  However the tint turned out to be slightly transparent and i can still see the damage some what through it.

 

Well, tints are transparent by nature. You should have gone with opaque color. Even then, opaque resin won’t always hide the ugly bits. You should have tried a better color match on the repairs before glassing it. Not sure why you added glass. You could have just matched the repair color and done a hot coat with more color. Sand, then polish. What weight is the cloth you used?

[mgcorrei]

Its only single 4 oz, still very light.  Yeah i slept on it and am going to laminate it again but with a ton of opaque mixed in.  Surely the first pass helped lighten up those repairs a bit.  I’ll save that tint and use that on the deck so you can still see the Greek logo now that i know its transparent. 

I laminated it again instead of just hotcoating because there was a lot of uv damage on the bottom, many soft spots and things needing cloth, so its better to just laminate the whole thing than make dozens of little patches.  I was under the assumption that the coloring would hide all the dings so no need to color match the qcell repairs.  Oh well … but all is not lost.  This is a big guy knee board, im sure he wouldnt mind stepping up to 8oz. stay tuned.

[BarrySnyder]

@$1

@$1

I lamintated both sides today just straight over the old glass.  The idea was to make a really dark tint to hide all the damage on the bottom.  However the tint turned out to be slightly transparent and i can still see the damage some what through it.

 

Well, tints are transparent by nature. You should have gone with opaque color. Even then, opaque resin won’t always hide the ugly bits. You should have tried a better color match on the repairs before glassing it. Not sure why you added glass. You could have just matched the repair color and done a hot coat with more color. Sand, then polish. What weight is the cloth you used?

Bingo.

[BarrySnyder]

@$1

@$1

I lamintated both sides today just straight over the old glass.  The idea was to make a really dark tint to hide all the damage on the bottom.  However the tint turned out to be slightly transparent and i can still see the damage some what through it.

 

Well, tints are transparent by nature. You should have gone with opaque color. Even then, opaque resin won’t always hide the ugly bits. You should have tried a better color match on the repairs before glassing it. Not sure why you added glass. You could have just matched the repair color and done a hot coat with more color. Sand, then polish. What weight is the cloth you used?

Bingo.

I concur.

[mgcorrei]

finished product! came out good  disaster averted. 

[Surfifty]

Looks good.  Do you have any more pictures?