Surfing Waves

Hi All

Last weekend, I went to my local tip - in Leamington Spa! I was mooching around the shop they have and guess what I found?

A 6ft round tail shortboard!!!!!No really! - I asked the woman how much..........

£2 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So I bought it, and am now planning to patch it up, reseal the bits of glass that need work and re-spray it. I appreciate that this could end up looking like !!!

Here's some pictures of it (taken on my phone so they're a bit rubbish). The first 2 are when I first got it home and the rest are after I cleaned the wax off it (which took some doing!!). Most of the dings have been repaired well, so it can't hurt to try!?

Wax On!:


Wax Off!!:


Let me know what you think!!

Sinista

£2? Bargain!

Doesnt look too bad - apart from that tail pad

damn. i'm jealous. sweet deal. that tail pad looks pretty sweet though...haha

haha why are you all ripping on the tail pad?

I love the early 90's style. I have thought about picking up one of the cheapos off the internet classifieds.

not ripping on it..it's just funny to see how much has changed in a relatively short amount of time

I'll give you £4 for it!
100% profit can't get fairer than that!

Whats the rocker like? I'm guessing it'll be pretty flat and has got a "V" tail. Lots of toe in on those fins 2, pointing straight at the nose of the board.

KS

What a good buy, you should go on Bargain Hunt !!

Nearly ready to post some more photos - got my basic design sorted though, what do people reckon?

Logo


Will add some 'sketches' of the board design soon!

Found my rough 'idea/sketch' of what I am aiming for!


This is more of an exercise in design than surfboard construction.

I have re-glassed all the holes and dings though and am quite pleased with the results.

i can't believe you got it for £2!!! Jammy thing!

are you keeping the tail pad?

Really like your logo design post some pics up, soon as!

Unfortunately the tail pad is history

haha .. AWSOME! so cheap,
Just out of curiosity, can you just spray paint the top like that? o_0

that "rough sketch" would look awesome on a surfboard.

TReMoR wrote:haha .. AWSOME! so cheap,
Just out of curiosity, can you just spray paint the top like that? o_0

Yes.

Then you can leave as (not advisable) or spray clear coat on or add a hot another hot coat on (which i imagine would last waay longer than clea coat)

More pics!!

This is the repair job I did - I know it could have been better, but the whole board is so covered in dents etc that it was never going to look perfect anyway!



This is it after the first coat of primer paint:


Looking good I think! Although I do appear to have put a light dusting of primer all over my neighbours brand new 4x4!!

Will post more when I've got some colour on it!

Sin'

haha good old halfords spray cans i did one with them

OK, more pics

This is the board with a small white area for the logo on the bottom and fins painted yellow:


This is it with a logo stencil in place:



This is my finished 'penguin's head' for the top of the nose:



If I can pull this off, I think it'll look awesome!

Sin'

I've nearly finished the bottom!! - I think it looks pretty cool now! I just need to add the dots over the 'i's and the bottom is done!

its looking really good mate will be good to see it whenits done