I’m looking for suggestions f=to restore the nose of this board below. I’d like to avoid cutting it off, or leaving the stringer and just adding new foam. Please give me any suggestion no matter how strange.
Thanks
The nose:
Deck:
Bottom:
Cant really see what’s wrong with it.
If its buckled, bend or snap it back into shape, route a slot next to the stringer add extra stringer(ply) afew inches past the snap on each side,fill holes, reglass ,colour match ,gloss polish voila!
Regards
Daren
Entity is right. What’s wrong with it?
if you sand all the booger glass down smooth, then (if your really anal) maybe shoot it with some acrylic light beige to match the patch. Then add another layer of glass to cover the whole thing, hot coat, gloss polish. It will look pretty good, obviously your never going to get it perfect, but it will look professional. Make sure you feather the spray job far enough onto deck to make it match.
The nose was poorly re-shaped before glassing. There are pits dents and the whole outline was changed on one side.
I’d like to restore it to riding condition. Being a hull the rail line and the bottom are critical. I want to do this without adding too much weight to the nose which could throw off the balance and the ride.
Seems like you should just make sure it is glassed properly and then sand it smooth.
That part of the rail line (the end of the nose) is probably the least critical. Even on the most committed bottom turn, that part of the rail is not very much engaged.
Am I missing something here? That picture shows the original nose. The only thing that was redone, was a new glass job. It looks like the nose at some time had a delam and a ding or two, so the owner cut the glass back and did a scab job repair.
I say this because if the nose was new, the person did a dam good job matching up the foam, stringer, and even the stains…But why would the person do all that good work, just to do a hack glass job…doesn’t add up.
So What happened to the nose is that the previous owner decided to sand the dings out of the foam instead of patching the foam…Presto instant Flat spots, Presto instant hack job. This also make the bad glass job more believable.
I would still sand it smooth. Then i would fill the lumps with a glass & resin, make it clear. Then I would glass patch the entire nose. Your not going to add that much weight, or at least not enough for an old salt like you to tell the difference.
Clean, clear repairs are nothing to be ashamed of. The board has it’s original nose, it was just done by a hack. A little love and it will feel right. Don’t take a saw to it thinking your going to get a better fit than the original, that will never happen.
Resin “CSI” Head
What RH said. That nose will look much better with the lumps sanded off. Might even be able to blend the bottom nose rail and clean up the template some.
Whatch the weight.
I’m sorry guys, I thank you for the responses, I guess what I was asking here is new ways to do things.
When the nose was poorly repaired some of the volume was taken out leaving a step on both the bottom and deck almost 3/16 in some places.
I was thinking I’d:
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Sand old ugly repairs.
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Add volume back to the rail in the nose using a mix of cabosil, chopped glass and resin, then reshape.
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Then I fill any other unevenness with a resin/ cabosil mix.
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Lastly reglass (lam then hot coat) and sand to perfestion.
If anybody knows of a quick foam to use to fill or any other new tricks please post them.
sand to perfection. Right on.
No I said perfestion! Boy I just cannot type at times.
Ok, on the the ideas front, you could do a compsand style HUGE nose block:
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Sand off the ugly glass
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even out the foam
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glue in balsa strips in aesthetic pattern to replace volume
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sand flush
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Re-glass
A bit of work, but lighter than building back the volume with resin, and might look really good.
I never thought about balsa. Kinda like giving the board a nose block, I like it.
Thanks
fugly…but rides very well for a rubbish find.
Don’t use cabosil or chopped glass, those are solids which add weight. Either use microballoons in resin or foamdust to fair the bottom back out. Don’t worry about the ‘stepdeck’. Foamdust will make the repair a good color too.
Other than that, just like was said above - sand the bumps, glass it over again, and don’t worry too much.
A balsa noseblock, or even a balsa compsand-style nose skin would add a lot more weight than a little foamdust & resin.
Benny1, Tried the foam dust and resin mix to fix a small problem on a shaped blank. It worked out well. Much better than Q-cell on a visual level.
Its 4:30 in the morning and I am getting ready to sand. These hot summer days are making the glassing “interesting” to say the least.
Thanks Benny1 that’s a great thread.
After this thread and discussions with fellow Hullahollics I think I have the course of action. I will post asap.