i’m no expert but i thought i’d get the ball rolling with this thread. hopefully masters like platty can jump on board & share their work.
anyway, the first board is a blue bird square tail singlefin i found chucked out. very poor condition, maybe 2 out of 10 tops. but at least it had the original fin (albeit pretty scuffed up & wobbly) & the deck logo was intact. i decided i’d give it a go.
sorry there’s no step-by-step shots. just before & after i’m afraid.
before:
okay …
colour photos , please ? hahah …you LOVE the ol’ BandW , don’t ya mate ?!
cheers
ben
before:
after:
sorry, i don’t have photos of the bottom & fin. these shots are from a couple of years back before i had access to a digital camera. i’ll have to take a few more pictures & post them up.
this log was given to my dad by an old mate. maybe 4 out of ten. i decided to restore it for him as a surprise gift. didn’t look too hard to restore at first, that is, until i began attacking the holes. unfortunately, the foam had perished where the dings were. i had to use a grinder to cut back the holes to solid, intact foam. it ended up being a very big repair job.
once it was finally done i gave it back to dad. he couldn’t believe it, knowing how many weeks & hours it must have taken. now it has pride of place hung on the wall above the dining table. when i visit for dinner, i smile every time i look at it.
before:
during (note the grinder work):
during (opaque tint to hide all the repair):
after:
after:
so , Nat,
can you ‘talk’ us through the process on the mal resto , please , mate ?
did you basically q-cell the holes , re-glass those areas ,
then opaque the hotcoat / gloss coat ?
or …
…was it a strip the glass off and reglass job , with red pigment in your lam , then filler , then gloss ?
cheers !
ben
[I got my name back , kinda …]
hicksy: nice work mate!
did you basically q-cell the holes , re-glass those areas ,
then opaque the hotcoat / gloss coat ?
or …
…was it a strip the glass off and reglass job , with red pigment in your lam , then filler , then gloss ?
chip: did the former, but the latter would probably have been quicker. so much sanding, rebuilding, sanding, rebuilding. definitely a labour of love this one.
cheers nathan !
…and , on the McTavish , how did you get the logo so new looking ?
ben
ben: the mctavish was basically a total rebuild. lots of q-cell. the deck & bottom were so ugly i had to hide them behind opaque tints. i taped a window for the deck logo before tinting the deck fillercoat. then before i glosscoated the deck i pinlined the window with the same navy green tint i used for the deck pinlines.
i chose to ‘window’ the logo rather than tape flush to it, because i think it gives away something of the board’s history, a window into its soul as it were. i prefer restorations that don’t totally hide a boards age, but sometimes it can’t be helped. with both these examples, the boards had to be so filled with q-cell that it just wasn’t possible to leave them uncoloured.
i’m sorry ben, b&w photos don’t really illustrate my point here, & i know how much you like colour (haha!), but i hope this makes sense. i’ll try to get around to posting some colour pics.
thanks mate !
…did you see the McTavish ‘bluebird’ in my brother’s quiver ?
that one is in good condition .
cheers ,
ben
heres the link to a brewer restoration Ive got going right now. 10 bucks at a yard sale in San Juan Capistrano. Pretty run through, but Im trying to keep the deck looking aged/yellowed, but I have to spackle the rails/bottom… more to come, but its 4-6 and overhead, so I think Im going bodysurfing…
http://www.swaylocks.com/forum/gforum.cgi?post=256891;search_string=brewer%20restoration;#256891
