wanted: so cal longboard / egg / mini-mal broke in 2

General Discussion
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A conversation with Surfiber on another forum reminded me of this:

I just completed my foam egg with wood rails and a hollowed out (chambered) stringer.  So using what I learned there about marrying foam and wood, I'm wondering if hws building methods could be used to build a wood center section of a board broke in two, giving it a second life.  I'd like to try.

If anyone has a contemporary (no heavy old logs, please) longboard, egg, or mini-mal broken in two that they'd like to donate or sell at a reasonable price, I'd love to see what I could do with it.  Preferably someone between Santa Monica and Santa Barbara, for logistical reasons.

Keep me in mind, anyway.  Maybe someday you will, if you don't now.

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I have a (formerly) 9’6" GSI epoxy Walden Magic Model snapped appx: 4’ mark - I’ve been considering her reshape as my first Sways build - but you’re welcome to her. The FCS Sidebite plugs and Bahne box are still intact, and the board was snapped very cleanly. The pic of the board is at my office - will send tomorrow (today).

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Correction - found an image. She was snapped on the August 27 (I think) swell of '09, so the foam is well dry. I don’t know much about GSI’s construction other than that repairs will cost nearly the price of the board. I’ve considered trying a wedge stringer configuration to reshape it to a 9’0"(ish) board.

PM me if you’re interested

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PM'd you on my way to work this AM, I'm off again in a few minutes, but just wanted to say - if this is a softop, I'll give it a go, for sure, but still looking for a standard glassed board broke in half also, if'n anybody's got one!  Will PM later for the details - thanks again, Huck

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It’s a GSI Epoxy sandwich over EPS (hard - no softtop) with FCS sidebites and a standard longboard finbox. I was hoping to strip / reshape it (had some stringer ideas for it). Unfortunately, I just don’t have time right now; so I’d rather see it in the hands of someone who’ll actually do something with it.

 

I pm’d you back - so whenever you’re out my way…

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Thanks Lockedin - I have the board back together, still needs to be glassed, but no pics since my camera broke.  I just ordered one from Amazon, so I'll get pics up when it arrives  =).

I glued the two halves back together with epoxy resin.  Clamped the two pieces down in place, but didn't mask it off well enough before I poured my resin,and it seeped out and ran over everything and made a mess - yuck!  Bit stuck together anyway, even 'tho it was a weak joint.  So then I cut out a 12" section of rail on each side, and replaced it with redwood, epoxy-glued in place, then shaped the redwood to blend in.  It was still a weak joint, and you could tell when handling the board.

To beef up and stiffen the repair, I cut a "stringer" slot out of the middle, about 3' long, 3/4" wide, and slid a piece of 3/4" cedar in, and epoxied it in place with 5 min. epoxy glue. 

Then I cut a diamond shape out of the composite deck surface, the length of the new "stringer" (3'), and epoxied some thin redwood and cedar planks down, then blended them in once the glue dried.  On the bottom, I just filled the glued repair area with bondo, sanded it, and painted it white to match.

I'm sure I've added a few lbs. to the board, but I'm not too worried about it, it still feels good.

So much easier to show with pics than to describe, but without a camera, I feel like an Italian trying to talk without his hands LOL!

Time to order my glass and resin from Tuck over at Wood Surfboard Supply!

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Clever idea using wood skins.  When are you going to ride it.  Long range forcast is looking up.

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here's some pics finally - its ready for glassing over the repaired area.  I added some white stripes around the deck patch to match the existing white stripe motif.