i need help repairing my surfboard!!

[Guest]

hey.. i wasnt sure where to post this topic.. so i just posted it here... well ne ways.. my surfboard broke and i need some help repairing it. the nose of the surfboard.. and the very tip..










can someone help me repair those? does anyone know how to DIY instead of going to some shop and repairing it?

[andiruleu]

someone help me :(

[namino tsume]

ok, have you ever made a board before if not, got here, swaylocks.com

if you want to do it your self, it looks like your gonna need glass resin and thats it.

i would suggest going to the local surf shop and asking them to do, a professional job would surf much better.

[andiruleu]

thanks! i know but i wanna try to do it myself lol.. also.. do u know anything about fixing the middle part? do u think i need to glue it together or something?

[andiruleu]

or does anyone know any repair shops then.. i live in so cali.. 909/626 area code.. anyone know any repair shops that doesnt overprice?

[deathfrog]

wow that really sucked for you bud. surfersteve.com has some good stuff about building boards, and recomends epoxy if you want to do it. I don't really know much about reparing boards, but if you want to do it yourself, I would get a chunk of foam, carve it into a new nose, repair the stringer if you really want, (probally would preventing the nose from snapping off again) and use s-glass and epoxy. The stronger glass combined with the epoxy should make up for the break. And may I ask how you did this?

[andiruleu]

haha well... i didnt do this... me and a couple of friends were at the beach playing catch with a mini football.. and there were trashcans around us. this guy was talking by and just threw it in the trashcan... we asked him what was wrong with it and he said the nose broke.. so i figured i could just repair this board. :D

the website? doesnt work or something?

[mmmmmmm]

hey kid sorry about the board .I realy can't tell how big the break is from the pictures but it looks bad.So I will tell you what options you have first if you have a break a foot away from the nose your probobly screwed cause its gonna snap again repairing the stringer is only gonna be temp. cause your gonna exert alot of pressure up there and its gonna snap again if its less than a foot drawit uot in some reasonable shapeand either do a build up which probably wont help much or take a angle grinder and grind a new nose for it and then glass but it realy looks fuxt and I make and repair them so unless you got some foam genisus in ya you should suck it up but if ya wanna try repair work I invite you to try cause to tell the truth it is not the greatest part of shaping as far as im concerned I'd rather start from scratch than repair and salvage and you should probably where a mask and not just a dust mask but resperator also that tish is bad news.michaeldl

[deathfrog]

haha good job. but like the guy /\ said, yea your going to have a hard time reparing the rocker. Mabie you could just completley tear it out and fill it with fiberglass or somthing, I duno, good luck with that part. and try this... http://www.surfersteve.com/introduction.htm

good luck!

[andiruleu]

oh man... it looks like it'll be so much work.. sigh.. i might as well just to a repair shop. but does anyone know any repair shops in southern california? maybe like in huntington or newport... i live in the 909/626 area code.. around there?