I recently picked up this '64 jacobs and have been working my ass off fixing it. Apparently in the previous owners world resin works perfectly without glass. Everything is now sealed and left as original as possible, but I am now faced with a bunch of hot coat repair work taking up most of the board. Anyone with experience worked through this issue? (yes, I should have taped off my repair hotcoats but…THERE WERE SO MANY) pulling hair out of head and face
Should I:
A. sand it all with 220-320 and re-hot coat the whole board?
B: just sand it all from 320-600 (very carefully) and call it a day?
Thanks for the info. I will give the 150 a try and rehotcoat. Can I buff it straight away or do i need to go through the sand paper progression before buffing? 320-400-600-buff?
You might get a better shine if you use genuine gloss resin. And yes, with a buffed hotcoat or gloss you’ll need to go through the various grits to get a nice shine unless you get one of those ‘once in a blue moon’ perfect layers that are good to go right off the brush. If you have hotcoat resin handy but no gloss, it’s debateable whether or not the expense of additional gloss resin is worth it.
Try to get the surface of the board as flat and smooth as possible… I.E. fill in and sand flush any pressure dents or low spots before your final layer of resin. Sometimes it helps to prop the board up so that various sections are level and do each level section separately.
One option…I do…If you are trying to make a rider. Sand the hell out of the board, into the old glass just a bit, make sure all dings are solid flat etc (even the old ones). Put down a fresh layer of 4 oz glass to seal it all up, Hot coat and sand as You won’t be adding much weight, and all your ding work and old ding work will be fresh as a daisy.
if an old board is a ding machine, doing all of them individually will just make a big lumpy thing of a surfamabord. Just fill it, glass, sand it gloss it…ride it. It will be flat and shiny, and will take 1/10 the time to fix it all up.
wow, Thanks guys. I wish I hit you up before I started. There were some 30 dings on the bottom alone. If I did the whole layer of 4oz in one go it would have litterally saved me 3 days. Resin head, thanks for the confidence booster. Sanding through all that work would make me so bumbed though. Everything is sealed currently, I may take a breather, and see if she floats. Sounds like the 4oz would be best way to go though and might give that gloss resin a go on my new log.
