i have a nose rider that i love. the only complaint i have is that it has an edge in the tail. it was an expensive board and im not mr moneybags right now so i was thinking about sanding off the edge and rounding it off. i like a soft tail in my nose riders because it makes it much easer to sink the tail and run up to the nose. its also a small wave board, so the edge isnt helping me just hurting me.
the rail shape is down, but if i sanded off the edge it would look like the tail of a weber performer or something along those lines, thin and rounded, nice and pinched. what do you think, should i do it? im good with glass but i have never shaped anything, but i figure i know alot about what i want it to look like, and its almost already shaped anyway so its more or less just the edge and a little more that needs to be sanded away.
Before you cut into the glass, you could rough sand the rails in the said area, then build it up a bit with resin and glass bead “putty,” then sand it to the soft smooth rail you desire… If it works, great, if not, try it again, or sand it off, and cut it down.
i wasn’t going to do any cutting. just some heavy grit and a sanding block, all by hand, no machines, to get it exactly how i want it. know what im sayin?
I guess my concern would be sanding through, and then having to deal with that. if it’s only a slight edge you want to sand down… Go for it, if it sucks, you could always build it back up and have another go at it! Good luck.
Howzit poer, Is the board a single fin or a 2+1 set up? If it's a single fin I would defintely dull the edge but if it's a 2+1 you want the edge to be fairly sharp. I would just try dulling the edge first with some 220 grit and see if that helps before getting to extreme. I have one customer that orders single fin boards but the shaper always puts a sharpe edge and the customer complains that the board is sticky, so on his last board I dulled the edge and he said it made a big difference in the way the board rode. Aloha,Kokua