lis fish restoration project

General Discussion
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so after having this board for around 2 years now im finally starting to get working on this thing

so this board had 2 hot coats over it when it came to me, the fins were all messed up, 2 nice an big delam spots on the deck from were i suspect the original owner placed his knees on the board and some more delam near the tail, and the nose and tail were beaten in and all sorts of rail cracks and dings

first thing i did was remove the fins then i spent about 3 hours sanding it with some 40 grit

it started out at about 20 pounds now its under 10 pounds so there was alot of unnecessary resin on this board

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so now the board is preped, its all sanded down to the cloth and the bad delam spots have been cut out

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so now im going to fill in the big void spots with some pour foam

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once the pour foam is cured then ill sand it down and  tape off the parts that i want to fill with q cell

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then start filling[img_assist|nid=1063247|title=lis fish resto|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=321|height=217]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The outline curve on those lis fish' is fucking beautiful IMHO. How big is it? When do i get it?? :)

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I have a 5’6" that has some sweet kneeboarder issues… I need to show it love eventually as well. I love those fins, I am pretty sure you posted a picture of them on a earlier thread… and Iloved them then as well.

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Man- that there is a thing of beauty!- best of luck with the restoration!

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Keep it coming. I will follow this one for sure… thx SD

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so after my one day off a week and catching a nice lingcod in the morning and a lobster at night im ready to get worken on this thing again

now im going to cut open the delam spots near the tail, pour some resin down and then wheigh it down with some diving weights[img_assist|nid=1063281|title=lis fish resto|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=364|height=246]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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oh and beerfan it will be a 5’4 when im done filling everything in and no you cant have it but if you ever make it to san diego you can have a test drive on it

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now that i got all the spots filled in with the green filler now ill do all the salmon colored filler[img_assist|nid=1063287|title=lis fish resto|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=347|height=234]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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so now ill put down some pinlines on the stringer where it got covered up

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this is an education. thx SDRep

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so now that i got everything filled in now i want to start patching everything up

the fist part that i want to do is wrap the rails with some cloth but because i grinded down all the rail shatters the rails are not smooth at all so im going to add a lot of little pieces of cloth in all the little divots in the rails to make every thing smooth before i wrap the rails

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and now to do the same thing to the deck

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so now that i got everything smoothed out on the rails im going to wrap the rails with some cloth all the way around the board

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and now that i basically got everything repaired the next step will be to hid everything when i relaminate the whole board with some pigment

but for now i have to get back to work on other peoples boards because there starting to stack up

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so happy holidays for now and ill be back soon

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now for the good part

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and im back, well sorta

right before the new year i went out snowboarding and ended up breaking my right elbow

so that has hindered my working abilities for a little while now but i can finally use both of my arms now and i hired my first employe doing all the finish sanding which has helps me out alot

oh and i absolutely hate sanding with a palm sander, for the first couple of weeks thats all i could use

but anyways back to the board

so i got everything all fixed up and now its time to hide every thing with a pigmented lamination

first i tape off the deck then lam the bottom

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so i wanted the least amount of cloth with the most wive so i can hide everything so i went with using 2 layers of 2 oz cloth

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so now ill cut the lap and lam the deck[img_assist|nid=1064245|title=lis fish resto|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=396|height=267]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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once the deck lam is in the right stage then i cut those laps and then cut out the tape that i had over the stringer and signature

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so now im making some progress

i can now put my mask on using both of my hands, kind of a pain putting it on with only one hand

and now back to the board

so now im going to be fixing up the fins

they had close to and 1/8 of an inch of glass on both sides of the fin so after alot of grinding and redoing the resin bead i can now attach them back to the board[img_assist|nid=1064306|title=lis fish resto|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=489|height=330]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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so now that i got them glued on the board ill give it some time before i glass them on

and for those of you wondering the back of the fins starts at the butt crack of the swallow tail

its 6 1/4 inches from the stringer and there is no cant or toe

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Wow! pretty epic… Whats the finished product look/surf like?