If you keep up with this crazy blog (thanks to those of you who do- right ON!!), you’ve seen my badly injured favorite surfboard with the deeply cracked right rail:
I took it to my local surf shop to have it repaired, and they did a great job filling in the deep gash from a 9” Longboard fin- yikes. However, since my Mahi Mahi fade color paint job was on the rail of the board, the repair was a big obvious white splotch:As for the bottom, I picked up a couple more Mahi Mahi stickers to cover the discoloration, no big deal. I broke out my medium tip Montana paint pens from Michael’s, in shades of green, blue, white, and black to work on the rail and pin line. I actually re-did the black pinline first, it made a world of difference:
I don’t have airbrush equipment, so I dotted green and blue shades of paint on the rail, blended the paint with a sponge brush, and then wiped the color away, leaving a stain. This was better than trying to color in the green directly, since that would be MORE obvious on top of the glass job.
I wasn’t going to try to match the color exactly, I was just aiming to reduce the glare of the white, so I repeated this process until I was happy with it.
As I was blending some bright blue, I decided to paint some bright fun dots concentrating around the repair area, and spreading outwards. My usual crazy doodling.After allowing the paint to dry, I sealed it with 2 coats of sealant, and allowed it to dry fully for 24 hours before using it. I like to use the matte finish instead of the gloss, unless I’m coating an entire deck.
Woo-Hoo! Back to life again, ready to surf! As far as the ding, play along and say you saw me do this out at the Cocoa Beach Pier last week. Yeah, that’s the ticket……
Really nice. I like the dots. On one of my old boards I wrote the date and location of each ding next to the repair. 😁
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Thanks!! I REALLY like your idea, I don’t think I could EVER get rid of a board that had memories written all over it like that! 😳🤗
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Yeah. I had to have a clear-out a few years back when I lost a load of my storage space. I passed it on to a friend’s daughter to learn on. She was chuffed to bits with her first ‘proper’ board, and the list of breaks on it.
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If I was her, I’d be telling everyone about how much I rip with my thrashed board!!GNAR! 😂🤙🤙
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* This is assuming “chuffed” means angry… 🤔🤷♀️🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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No 😂 chuffed means pleased. 😄
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I’m going to use it in a sentence today! 🤗 Thanks! 🤙
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😀😀😀
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