Any of you shapers ever screw up a board beyond repair after or while shaping? I totally messed up a board that I had just shaped to perfection. I was transporting it up to the house from my shaping room and I ran smack dab into a tree…then on the way back to the shaping room I smashed a rail into the door jam…what a freakin mess and unfixable now…
just turn it into something smaller and stick it on the rack, it doesnt happen often but thats what we do. oF course your just pretty much screwed if its already a 5’8 grom board eric spencer team manager www.paradoxdistribution.com www.ovellesurf.com www.hardinsurf.com http://paradoxdistribution.com
Before you do any cutting on any of the foam try a few things first: Since I can’t see the extent of the damage I can’t give you specifics but this has happened to me (to some extent) in the past. 1) Do you have a heat gun (a hair dryer on steroids)? If so take the heat gun and shoot it on the damaged foam. When the foam is heated it will expand. Hit it with the heat gun when the foam expands shape it back to where you want it with you drywall screen or sandpaper. It might not pop all of the damage foam back out but it could take care of quite a bit of it. CAUTION DO NOT EXPOSE FOAM DIRECTLY FOR LONG PERIODS OF TIME. If so it will turn brown and even start to melt. Note: you can use a hair dryer but it is not as effect and takes longer. By the way Herb hooked me up with this tip. It works and he got me out of a disasterous situation. Thanks herb. 2) Don’t forget about spackle (drywall spackle). I use lighthouse spackle with just a little bit of water. Mix to the consistency of toothpaste, get a squeege and fill in the area. Let it dry and hit it with your screen and/or sandpaper. Typically I wait a few days until glassing when I use any spackle. This allows some of the excess moisture to evaporate. You can even use foam dust and elmers glue (like the kind you use to eat in school). Just mix it up the two so that the mixture looks crumbly. Squeege it in, let it dry, sand it out. Make sure you use clean foam dust or it will look even worse when it dries. And yes the spacled area will look a little different than the rest of the board, but who cares. It will be back to what you had intended before the accident. You can always paint over the glass to cover it up if it bothers you. That in my opinion is better than shaping another board out of it, or making your current shape narrower than what you intended. All is not lost, you can make it work.
Wow thanks for the info . I tried the foam dust glue thing …it kind of worked…Spackel. I don’t know why I didn’t think of that. Oh well I am using that board as a experiment for my airbrushing. looks crazy now…I’l post pic after it’s glassed.