http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3643466250&category=22710 copy and paste that link, someone just paid $251.00 for nine broken boards WOW! I could sit on the beach at sunset or pipe and collect broken boards and sell them…learn something new every day
i’ve done it (sold broken boards that i fixed). as a matter of fact, they were broken at pipe or sunset, i repaired 'em and the owner never came and got 'em. sold 'em for $100 each. so i got my repair and an extra five oh for my trouble. why not? they still work as long as it’s a good repair. figure the guy paid 250 for 9 boards and repairs 'em for 50 each or less if he does it himself, he can easily get $1000 dollars or better in the right market. of course, if this person is real sneaky (and talented), he can do those repairs where it doesn’t look like it’s been broken and get even more dough.
heres the sad thing, they are all sawed flush and dont match,so you cand even repair them and get a good set of boards for cheap. http://www.surfboardglassing.com
i charge $150.00 to put a board back together. Guy comes in looks at the price and says hell for another 2 hundred i can get a new board. So he leaves the board and walks away from it. i put it back together, and sell it for $150.00. I’ve hever had a board break it the same spot where it’s been fixed. -Jay
no doubt I hate fixing broken boards though I always farm that work out http://www.surfboardglassing.com
There was this young artist in Florida that took broken boards and painted them.Some of the paint jobs were tropical,others were menu boards that you could write in chalk.The best sellers were painted to look like wood “grain painting”.They were just stuck together so they looked cool…not rideable.It was a going thing for awhile.Now she is heading an art department for one of the big theme parks in Florida.Get yourself a Grain Painting book…watch Martha Stewart and go for it.
I repair and sell lots of broken boards. I dont try for cosmetic illusions and often paint a giant “OUCH!” or and big band aid over the repair. I use nothing but scrap material but do add 4 reinforcement stringers - two sandwiching the original stringer and two set off 8" or so from the center. The boards aren’t particularly pretty and often have had full delams, multiple buckles, or just plain look like they exploded. After repair they are suitable for beginners and sometimes work very well. My favorite longboard is a 9’ 6" Indian that was snapped in the middle and complletely delammed on the bottom. After re-joining it and sanding the rough bottom down I layed a 6 oz bottom. The result is a full length rail to rail concave and (to my surprise) it works very well. I sell these for as little as $40 and sometimes give them to neighborhood kids who cant afford a board but have enough of an interest that they hang out and help and ask lots of questions. (I live in a run-down neighborhood by the LA harbor). Theyre very appreciative and Im happy to give them a chance to learn. http://mb-soft.com/public2/lift.html
Howzit Mr. Clean, Painting broken boards I fixed was how I learned about airbrushing boards. One of my favorites was painting a bandaid over the repair, they really got a good laugh. Aloha, Kokua
Kokua this board painting thing the girl did was really lucrative.Hell I thought about it myself but boards are hard to get around my area.The woodgrain boards were very realistic and she was getting 300 dollars and up with a backlog.Bars,restaurants etc. really liked them.She got her start by taking them to a Restaurant Trade Show.Recycling at its finest.
saw it on ebay, almost shit my pants. why they would buy it…no idea. hell i see broken board leyn around atleast once a month. i just finished fixing a broken lost board. i think i got a buyer for 125. he knows the guarentee though.
We get stores or restaraunts calling ocassionaly for broken boards to use as 'decor or props, one surf shop wanted them to build a tombstone window display for halloween,it looked great! I usually turn them down for repair, ain’t got the time to deal with it; it’s all I can do to keep up with regular repair work. I tend to feel like I’m wasting my time,there’s a million other tasks to do other than scraping off the wax of 2 halves of crap… But I would like to know this: What are people charging to fix a broke-in-the-middle board? In Hawaii, Fla., Cali? I usually do it for 80-100 bucks, one guy around here(O.B.NC) was charging 60. It just don’t seem worth it to me for that cheap.
100 bucks to fix a board broken in half sounds great. How much do most of you charge if its just the nose of a shortboard broken off? Say around 6 inches down from the point?
Usually around 35-45 bucks for a nose. Depends on who it is and how bad. How much is the going rate for a ripped out fcs plug?