A friend of mine found this board in the trash in an alley in OB , San Diego Ca. I’m going to bring this board back to life. The goal is to spend less than $25 on this project. I have an old set of glass on fins from another basket case and lots of scrap cloth. All comments , jokes and funny photos welcome. It’s all for fun. This board is for sale if you need to add a 5’10" RIP STICK to your quiver.
Have a nice day
Ray
Excellent project!
before i bought my first shortboard, I was riding my friends no nose boards. just like that
Keep on with the excellent projects Ray. If I see more salvagable boards I’ ll bring them to you. George
if i was you i would just sand the nose smooth and just glass the nose and ride it noseless
but regardless looks like a good project
Using an old hair dryer and a putty Knife I removed the stomp pad. Most of the glue came up real easy but someone tried to fix the rear of the pad with some rock hard glue so that will have to be sanded off. Because boards like this are glassed so light I did not want to power sand the bottom to remove all the black paint. I used DNA and a red scuff pad to remove the paint. I’ll post some photos tomorrow.
Ray
I think I’m going to have to start raiding peoples trash.
Here’s the tail after removing the pad. Lot’s of rock hard glue that’s going to need to be sanded…
Here’s the fins I have…They measure out at 4 3/4". I think I will take 1/4" off the base of the fins.
Because of the input so far I’m going to leave the nose square. I’ll clean it up a little.
Here’s what I found under all that black paint…
5 10… 18 1/2… 2 1/16… #40263… SD2
Signed by Matt Biolos
Custom for Matt Kina
Logo says Speed Demon Two
I haven’t seen hips that lumpy since National Geographic.
Nice project! I found an old 80’s midget Farrley twin fin in an OB alley that had its tail cut off 2inches behind the fins. Im going to revamp it into a nee-board using the same fins. I actually walk the alleys instead of the streets for this very reason, although it can be kinda sketchy at night.
There was a guy over here in Oz who would collect odd halves of snapped boards and put them together which ever way fitted best.
They were odd looking things, and I don’t reccommend mixing and matching your quiver with a circular saw, but you will surely find a good nose end kicking around somewhere for that lost board…
Josh
Ray has several nose jobs up in a shelf. We were trying to convince him to slap one, rather than leave the poor thing looking like MJ, on yesterday. Maybe it’s not too late…
…They talked me into a nose job…
Tail job too…
oh my…what have I done…
More to come…After I finish this one…
…so I cleaned up that nose ,used red pencil to match the red glue lines along the stringer and layed up one layer of 4 oz
cloth on the bottom…Then I got started on the glass on fins…
And just when I’m close to finishing…MarkSSD finds a snapped eight footer in an alley in Pacific Beach…Awesome!
Look closely…she’s broken in half and delamed on top and bottom…
I did a 6 oz wrap around the break with white pigment…and then a 4 oz slob job over the whole board
The deck color is out of control but my homemade clear fins sure look good on the bottom.
You’re a good ‘‘plastic surgeon.’’ I like what you did on the ‘‘brokeback’’ board.
Stingray, You always blow my mind when I see some your before and afters on the boards you do. You are the MAN. Mahalo, Larry