Surfing Waves

Hey everyone. I just wanted to ask about pressure dings. Ive had my board since the middle of last year and I take good care of it. It's a PU by the way not epoxy. I haven't bumped it into anything, dropped it, damaged it in any way, but I have a bunch of little hair-line cracks in the tail, and the deck has a lot of pressure dings in it. Also the stringer is bulging out a little. I hope all that made sense!
So basically, my question is, does this happen to anyone else's board or is it just me? Thanks in advance!

Sounds like a standard light-construction PU board. They simply aren't designed to last.

Hmm thats too bad... Well, I guess it is what it is, and im gonna end up getting a new one someday. I think she still has a lot of waves left in her too.

Oh I'm sure she has!

If you favour light boards this is something to be expected... Unless you get a good perofrmance composite board.

Pu boards always get pressure dings on the deck. And the stringer thing you are talking about is common with me as well. It happens when you get a pressure dent near the stringer and makes the stringer look like its protruding - more often than not this is the result of how i duckdive. Just keep an eye on it and make sure it doesnt pierce through if it does just fix it with a patch no big deal.

Incidentally my epoxies eventual do the same thing. Both get pressure dents although the epoxy is a touch hardier. Almost no board is dent proof and if it is it will suffer from other factors. But tbh of all the board construction i still favor PU as its never let me down

It sure sucks to see your PU board slowly going bad but they do in time. I really like the Kevlar deck on my new board. It's holding up very well.
It still feels like a PU board to me.

A properly build composite sandwich board won't pressure dent. After a lot of years of abuse it might delam, but not pressure dent

Alright. Well, im just glad to know that it is normal. Thanks for responding.

It's normal and can be fixed. There are some threads with photos of cracks along and around stringers. It's not such a big deal and it happens on shaper's boards, too. All I'll say about that is, "It happened to me."

Ok, good to know im not the only person this is happening to. So this brings up another question. When do you know its the right time to buy a new board? There must be a point where your board looks like a golf ball with cracks in it! Haha.

Right time to buy a new board? When the nose and tail smack you on opposite sides of your head... At the same time!

NorthMyrtleB wrote:Right time to buy a new board? When the nose and tail smack you on opposite sides of your head... At the same time!

Haha!!! Well i hope that doesn't happen any time soon!

right time to buy a new board for me is after it starts to delaminate. even if you fix it, the cost of repair and the performance loss after the repair pretty much justify a new board. aside from that, crushed tails or full on fractures. screw it, you know what i just like buying new boards.

Or when the deck is a mass of pressure dents from nose to tail and it has a few meaty dings on the bottom and rails

K cool.

ok, I have to chime in, board construction has a lot to do with it. . As a bigger guy I get my boards double 4 ounce + 6oz on top and double 4oz on bottom.

Standard off the rack pop-outs are single 4oz on bottom with 6oz on top, some even 4oz and 4oz. If you don't like dings, like me, ask for a heavier glass job.

My boards are not much heavier, they are heavier, but not much. But my pressure ding and stringer indentations take a couple of years to start, compared to some other boards I have bought off the rack. So, if you want a longer lasting better looking board go custom and ask for more cloth in the making.

A recent story: I just bought a custom becker. When I went in to order it, they told me it was standard to order 4oz cloth on each size. When I asked for double 4oz on top with single 6oz on bottom (cause I wanted to go a little lighter) the guy looked at me weird and asked "Really? Won't that be too heavy?" So, point is, now a days boards are made to be super light, but rippers do snap them more often than they used to.

Me, I like to enjoy my boards for a long time, I usually keep mine about 4 to 5 years on average, so I asked for them a little heavier so they last longer.

Food for thought...

^^^ yup its one of the benifits of going custom as you can specify the glassing thickness. I order my boards 2 X 4oz on the deck and 1 X 4oz for the bottom.

they told me it was standard to order 4oz cloth on each size

was that a single layer of 4oz???? as i have messed around with a board glassed with a single layer and i could tell right away it would be destroyed very quickly

2oz Kevlar is as strong as 6oz S glass and less weight.
You could go double 2 oz kevlar on the deck teach haha! That would be stroger then what you like now, and lighter.
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