surfboard repairs north devon

Stu's single fin after a little run in with the baggage handlers. I recon you got off lightly fella, at lest the board was in one piece.

Blazing sunshine and a mile long closeout.

This chapter longboard has suffered heat damage to the nose. The foam had compressed and the glass had split the nose and pulled and twisted the stringers out of line. There was only one thing for it and that was to remove the damaged section. New foam has been put in on one side and then the other side has been split down the centre of the blank and wedges pushed into the nose to get some shape back. This was then filled and the wedges removed.









Now for the tricky bit, blending in the joins and staining the foam to match the old stuff before glassing. Let the games begin..

When andy  called  to say that a ding guy had tried to fix his eps kiteboard with poly resin i had a picture in my head of what may have happened. When he sent me a photo of the damage it was a bit worse than expected. As well as melted eps the resin had been dripped all over the deck melting the laquered finish and the poly was so over catalyzed that i'm suprised it didn't catch fire.




After consulting the hound he reckoned it best to just cut out the sticky mess and start over.

Classic!!!!

Frozen water pipes in the work shop....check Epoxy's taking an age to cure............check Two pairs of socks.................check Dog shivering...........check Forgot to drain the compressor and it's frozen..............check It's bloomin cold folks, roll on summer.

Most of the glass was missing on the left side of the picture and the foam compressed. After filling and re-glassing the resin swirl effect was put on with the airbrush then glossed over and polished. Pretty stoked with this one, impossible to tell where the damage was. Today was a good day!!

Hi and welcome to the new site, still loads of things to add and i will try and update the blog as often as possible. Thanks to all our customers over the past year and hope you all had a good christmas.