Where to start…
I’ve been trying to reduce my quiver size recently but didn’t have the heart to trash or give away my #1 from back in '05, so i decided to strip the old girl and give her new life as a 5’8 after getting all stoked on twinny fishes (mostly due to apsmith’s thread “still feeling the keels”).
The board was 6’4 x 22 1/4 x 3, so there was PLENTY of volume to work with, now shes at a slim 5’8 x 22 x 2 3/4.
on with the photos:
routing the glass off the top and bottom:
the skinned cat:
for reference, here is the original build thread for this board…
http://swaylocks.com/forum/gforum.cgi?post=213480;#213480
I also just realized i wore the same shorts in the destruction process that I was wearing when i first built the board…cosmic!
back to the photos…
and here she is now:
foil:
some contours:
the bottom shape is vee (entry) to single under the front foot, shallow double just ahead of the fins and back into a single out the last 8" of the tail; I put a really slight bevel just outside the fins, blending forward to the widepoint (kindof VanStraalen -esque):
I can’t tell you how fun this is to put new life into an old friend that hasn’t seen the water in over two years!
Very nice shapes, before and after!!!
Im always a little scared to do that, but it seemed to work well for you. Epoxy resin, or poly??, any tips???
The blank is clark foam, the original date of this board was may 24th 2005…it was and will be poly, im going to do a cloth inlay on the bottom and pigment the deck.
tips wise, try to keep as much foam as possible on your board when you strip it! taking the top and bottom off are easy, and the rails pop off pretty quickly once youve got the skins off, just don’t get too excited when you pop them off as they tend to take foam with them!
hey dude,
nice project, I will never have the guts to strip my 1st.
I think you should put on some kind of a memorial signature on the new board as reminder
of your old lady. ( old lady= 1st board NOT your mom 
)
btw
I found your photo very funny…respirator!!! what about a shirt??
its taken a long time for me to be able to even think of that, but im desperate and i think this is the best thing I could have ever done to it!
Im thinking of glassing it w/pigments and such, but leaving a corner of the tail w/clear resin to show the holes and a bit of how gnarled the foam is from the old plugs/fins/dings…a little window to the past!
Ryan
Hey this is Daniel, I met you about two weeks ago out at Devereaux, sorry I should have formally introduced myself then, instead of just some dude on sways. Anyway, I have a twin keel fish I got about two years ago that is a great shape, but an absolute crap glass job, I have been thinking of stripping and reglassing it. Did you have to do a lot of patching the blank up after stripping the glass off… or you shaped most of this down? I want to keep the dims on the board pretty close to what they are now (maybe take an bit of foam out of the deck), think it is doable?
Great Post
Durbs
well done mate , you’re a man after my own heart !
[…now , let’s see you perhaps make some new fins to go with it , to boot ?]
cheers …and keep up the photo thread postings !
ben
Hey daniel!
the stripping take a bit of foam off, so if you wanted to keep relatively the same dimensions I’m guessing youd have a bit of a hard time. I didnt fill any holes in the blank yet; you can see the old FCS install though on the tail (the res resin circles).
the blank when I was done with it looked like this, texture wise:
Im debating on the fin issue right now, I am most likely going with lokbox because im a bit sensitive to my fishy keel placement and like to move them around a whole lot…
At this point I am so pissed off about the glass job I think I will prob do it anyway, and just shape it down as little as I need to. It has enough foam in it that I think it would still work okay shaped down a bit. Now I just have to clear out my storage facility that is half of my parents garage so I can build my shaping/glassing dust barrier, then I can get to the many projects I have planned. I’ll def post pics once I get going on this. Thanks for the advice, hope to run into you out in the water soon, that is if we get a swell without weather attached to it…
Hey mate, you inspired me to strip my 2+1 down. However, it ended up in disaster, pretty much a write off. BUT, i used it today to try out some resin swirls so not a total loss.
I didn;t really like it that much anyway, so its no big deal, if it was wider and longer it wouldnt’ve been a prob. BTW, you realise how strong 6x64 glass is when you try to pull it off!!!
Keep goin with yours its lookin good!
glassed the bottom yesterday, top is tomorrow morning; ill snap some photos for ya’ll…
something about this board seems cosmic…after glassing over 200 boards, i set squeegee to this one and felt like a complete amateur again, i was dropping things, bumbling around and sweating my butt off for the first time in two years…glassed another board right after and was just fine…
is a first board ALWAYS a first board, regardless of it’s encarnation?
from this morning:
the bottom layer is 6oz, the deck is one full 6oz layer w/a 3/4 length patch of 8oz volan.
this is inspiring…
have a stubby that i haven’t ridden in ages. wonder if it would work on eps…