… Probably one of my best gloss coats EVER… and while I’m polishing the tail, the buffing pad catches the edge throws the board into the air, (this is where it changes to slow-mo) after flipping once or twice it slams down and bounces a few times on the dried resin on the ground.
Now the board has 1 nasty gash in the side and 2 dents along the rail where it looks like the foam got dented and the glass didn’t, leaving big ugly bubbles.
This board is actually a table and it will be sitting in a buddies living room so I would like to be able to fix these horrible scars.
Would I be able to inject resin underneath the glass and have it become clear again or would I have to remove the glass in that area?
PLEASE!!! If there is someone that can help, I really need it.
I’m with ben, though… That board was PISSED that you have set it up for a lifetime of coffee rings and pretentious magazines instead of pressure dings, wax and racing point breaks. I’d call it suicide.
Ah yes- it happens that way, doesn’t it. I have been known to put bungees or similar on my sanding stands, like seat belts, so that I don’t have to play ‘chase the board around the room’.
Okay - the good news is that except for that crunch, it’s an easy fix. Those places where you can see the weave of the glass- sand them with coarse paper, by hand with 80-100 grit might be a good idea, until that resin that’s loose on top of the glass has gone away, but not sanding into the glass itself. Basicly, your hotcoat and gloss got munched and broke loose there but the underlying cloth is prolly fine.Then regloss with a thinned gloss resin, so it’ll soak in and saturate the cloth if need be. That’ll come out pretty near invisible once wet sanded and carefully polished.
That crunch- that is gonna be a bit tougher to make invisible. What I would do is very carefully tint a little resin, make it a skosh darker than the color that’s there, then add just a little cabosil or aerosil filler - but don’t catalyse it yet. You should be real close, mebbe a little lighter, to the color that’s there.
Then, with an x-acto knife or something scalpel-like, separate the crunched glass from the foam and pull it out to as close to the original contour as you can. Then, catalyse your filler mix and fill behind the original glass. That’s why I suggested just a little filler powder, so it’ll flow in well. Masking tape to make a mold of sorts, sand to shape, cover with very light glass and clear resin, gloss/hotcoat and polish as need be.
You could probably get away without glassing over it and maybe even just use straight tinted resin ( in which case go a little lighter than the existing color) without any filler powder, just what I do to keep the filler/repair from popping out or cracking over time- then again, this won’t be subjected to the stresses and strains a board gets in regular use unless they have some amazing parties - your call on that.
you’ve got to be kidding me!!! A Table Fish! - Put some baby shoes at the feet and it will look like it’s going to walk away. It’s kind of cute though. I’d leave it as is. it’s now pre-conditioned for those wild drinking parties. I’d fix any big holes so you don’t get any beer in the foam, Cheers. ;=)
…then you felt extremely jealous because you don’t have a table as cool as this one… right? j/k
I know it might seem like a wasted surfboard to some people, but its not the only board I’ll ever make. I’ll make lots more “real” surfboards before I make another one of these table boards. My buddy wanted a surfboard table so I made him one… and I think it looks pretty darn good in his living room (except for the ugly dings that could’ve been prevented if I would’ve buckled up).
…then you felt extremely jealous because you don’t have a table as cool as this one… right? j/k
Nope…but I have surfboards just as cool!!!.. the surfboard table on legs, w/out fins, a FISH no less!!! is to me, what a cherry running Pontiac GTO or Superbird w/out wheels on cinderblocks is to a gearhead … a crime… perception is the key… It know it looks cool in a living room… but how cool would it be flying down the line… I almost cry every time I see a non flying WWII plane on a concrete post… that board is making me veclempt(sp) Great work though!!! Free The Fish
p.s… leaving and or filling the dings with stuff average joe would fill a ding with would give mas character and decieve the onlooker so that the board would look as if it was indeed ridden before being a table…
De nada, man. Glad that was of use. Any problems, drop me a line, always happy to help.
And don’t worry about the flak you’re getting regarding making a dedicated table.
For instance, a number of the old-line, old-name shapers have been making boards that were designed from the get-go to be wall hangers.
Now, let me pose a question for the rest of us… what’s the difference between a board that’s made as a table from the get-go and a board that is sold to some wannabe twit who will parade around with it on his car and do little else with it? What they call ‘bolt-ons’ down in Oz. Me, I have to say that an honest piece of furniture is a hell of an improvement on a poser’s accessory …
