New 6'8" Stoked to Try it out

[thawkwood]

Bought my first shortboard for fifty bucks (used) up in Jacksonville, where I normally surf. Unfortunately I was sick with food poisioning, so I didn't surf that day . However it gave me time to assess some restoring work I need to do with this Charley Baldwin board with three permanently glassed fins. I need to:

1) Put ding dough on a few surface dents with cracks.
2) Add a new leash (6 foot)
3) Add a new nose guard

Afterward I intend to go launch it on its maiden voyage next North/Nor'easter that hits Jacksonville...

End of rant, don't mean to SPAM. But I'm just that stoked to have officially begun a quiver and bought a nice complement to my Premier 7'2"...

Hawkwood

[isaluteyou]

sweet. Im gonna buy a 6.8 in the next 2 weeks or so.

[tomcat360]

Ouch....food poisioning....

Always said there are two parts of food posioning:

1.) When you're afraid you're going to die

and

2.)When you're afraid you're not going to die.


Cool deal with the board though! Post some pictures.

[WooD]

Afterward I intend to go launch it on its maiden voyage next North/Nor'easter that hits Jacksonville...

Hawkwood

Congrats on the board, but dude we been having a hell of a noreaster since last Thursday night. I heard the Poles have been firing the past few days up your way.

Surf has been more or less unmanageable, and crossed up really bad, but it looks like this coming Thursday is gonna clean up some.

[Old Guys Rule]

Congratulations. $50 is dirt cheap.

[MyanRellick]

Ouch....food poisioning....

Always said there are two parts of food posioning:

1.) When you're afraid you're going to die

and

2.)When you're afraid you're not going to die.


Cool deal with the board though! Post some pictures.

Word. Food poisoning is the worst. One winter I visited my grandparents up in Michigan, my girlfriend and I were throwing up in their basement for 3 days. I tried to sleep the whole time. Ever since then, I can't stay at that house.

[thawkwood]

Well, I'm visiting family in Orlando this weekend and am putting resin in all the surface dents and dings that are in the board, but next Friday, if the conditions are right I intend to try out my new 6'8" or just utilize my original board...

[tomcat360]

Woah there tiger. You're not filling deep dings with solid resin, are you?

Pressure dings, or those little dents, that has unbroken glass is fine to leave there, nothing really you can do.

If it's cut, like what would happen when you get slammed in the rocks, you should tape it off, sand down around it, then fill it with resin mixed with glass bubbles, then put some scrap cloth ontop. If you sanded far enough down originally, it should come out flat. HUGE gaping holes you need to shape some foam to fit down in there (poly with poly).

Small stuff, ok, maybe fill it, but I'd still suggest mixing it with glass bubbles. Keeps the weight balance of the board and is stronger than straight resin.

[thawkwood]

I meant to say Ding Dough, not resin. I just had a brain fart.

Well I just put a transparent nose guard, a 6 foot FCS leash, and ding dough in the dings with cracks and left the pressure dings alone.