Sanding does the blending, can’t really put fibreglass “in” the board. Not practically anyway

Check out "pine line nz" on instagram. He made me the canards 🤙

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I’m not sure how to take this comment so I’ll just say “thanks” 😆

You’ve hit the nail on the head. The most “eco friendly” board is the one that lasts the longest. People could certainly sink money into repairing boards that would be still “perfectly fine” but we are all so quick to get rid of the old for the new with little thought or hesitation. Where do you work? I’ve always been impressed by places with limited access to boards like the Phillipines to keep old boards alive, seemingly forever be it EPS or PU

@@smallkinedings Portugal at the Surf Farm Figueira. Plenty of boards and factories here, but he have to start somewhere.

So simply speaking, the less cant angle you have the faster and drivier the board will be. Think of a fish which will generally have very little (if any) cant angle. They turn in large arcs not sharp pivots like you’d see in the WSL. The more cant angle you have in your fins the more responsive and “loose” your board becomes but you’re sacrificing speed in gaining manoeuvrability. This is of course effected by your boards width, concave, tail shape, length and rail profile so your job as the boards owner is to find the happy medium for you between speed and manoeuvrability depending how you want to surf and how the board was intended to be surfed 🤙

Appreciate it very much!!

Unreal, thanks for sharing! Interesting to hear he was involved in boat building. It seems an obvious step up from surfboard manufacturing, one that Graham Allen still does to this day!

Appreciate it very much! Where did you build boards, do you still have some of your old ones? The black stuff is a powdered guide coat that shows up scratches from my previous sanding that need to be removed before moving onto the next grit 🤙

@@smallkinedings I built boards mainly in Tampa, Florida and Vero Beach, Florida before I started screen printing. I ended up with a business called Newwave designs that screen printed surfboard laminate labels for most of the board builders on the East Coast and abroad from the 80s up until 2010. I have one of my boards left on my rack!

Appreciate it very much and stoked that you enjoyed! It's a fine line with the sanding. 99% of my job involves sanding and I'm working 6 to 10 hours a day. Wearing a respirator for that amount of time every day comes with it's own risks as well. Skin issues, cracked lips, infections, ingrown hards, management of facial hair (which I suck at 😂). I haven't found the perfect balance yet!

Hey hey, Assuming everything is prepped ok i'd guess that you're possibly leaving too much resin in your cloth which is adding weight to the cloth and allowing it to let go. Once the cloth is wet out you wanna squeegee most of the resin back off. This will make for a lighter, flatter lamination too. To get you started, it can also help to brush some resin on the surface before you place your cloth too. This will help ensure that there is resin on both sides of the cloth which is particularly important for thicker cloth like flax, carbon and chop strand that the resin struggles to make it's way all the way through 🤙

Appreciate it very much man!

Thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed it!

Appreciated! Any coffee grinds here get put in my belly real fast! The black stuff is a powdered guide coat that shows up scratches made from my previous sanding that need to be removed before moving onto the next grit!

Haha, didn't think of adding hot water! It's a powdered guide coat that shows up scratches that need removing before moving onto the next grit of sand paper!

@@smallkinedings I guess its like the panel beating game Not only the small imperfections but the low and high spots too.!!

@@smallkinedings you only should add warm water when its a cold f-in day it helps the hands keep warm when sanding with wet and dry paper.!!

Tastes like the burnt cheese drippings at the bottom of your oven after making nachos!

That's a powdered guide coat. It shows up the scratches from my previous sanding that need to be removed before I move onto the next grit for sanding. For things like panel beating and automotive painting it's good for showing highs and lows too when block sanding

Always at least one we wish we'd kept! Hang onto that SM!

Dam right! 😂

I would say the vast majority of people have no idea of that. From blowing the blank to shaping it, glassing it and painting it. It's a LOT of very carcinogenic chemicals and materials with none of them shy of the perhaps the wooden stringer being recyclable (EPS foam can technically be recycled but not by average joes like us so it's a bit of a farce to use that as a selling point). The most environmentally friendly surfboard is the one that lasts the longest! I have no doubt that BIG changes to all this are coming though.

That guys got a $2000+ shop vac setup so that he doesn't have to wear a respirator for 6 to 10 hours a day causing all kinds of other issues from having his nose and face constantly covered

Hey hey, always tricky down by the tail! The good thing about epoxy is once it's cured you can sand it so your next step is sanding your dodgy area to shape and you may have to patch the area if you end up exposing some foam.

@@smallkinedings thank you very much!

My pleasure!

You wanna let it tack off so your base colour still adheres. I left this one fir about 5 minutes before adding the black and yup, clear coat over the top of all 🤙

@@smallkinedings learning a lot from your videos. The kids are trashing their boards all the time, my garage is starting to look like your business, fixing them all the time. Any videos on softies?

Soft tops are a rabbit hole! I’ll do a long rant on them one day 😆 for now the only product I can really recommend is “flex paste”. They are the one with the crazy infomercials but, the stuff really works! The repairs won’t be pretty though!

Dave the good fulla with the hot tips!

That's what I've been saying!

Thank YOU!

The light are LEDs, it’s all about shutter speed! Depends what I’m cleaning. Boards is use compressed air, towels and degreaser for wax and stickers. Resin I use a dry clean rag and for really messy jobs, acetone. For my floor, a broom and a vacuum 😉 Heat is good for dispelling air bubbles in cast resin which is poured at depth, up to 2inches thick sometimes. I’ve never tried it with the kinetic resin, usually after mixing I just let it sit for 5 minutes and the bubbles will all disappear from the pot and then you’re good to pour 🤙

@@smallkinedings 🙏🏽🤙🏾

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Gotta do another one of these!

Chur! That one’s finished now, will show some footage of it soon. It’s like a giant fishing lure!

The most impressive board I’ve ever had in for repair. The owner had no idea what he had either!

You’re a legend, clearly not born in the tik tok era! The black stuff is a powdered guide coat used to show up scratches that need to be removed before moving onto the next grit of sand paper. It tastes like burnt hair on burnt toast!

@@smallkinedings 🤣 Looking forward to the next restoration

Chur! One of my most underrated videos I reckon 😆

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Good question! Now days, to me the lightning bolt is a little bit like skateboarding. I get the same icky feeling when I see a company/brand try to use skateboarding in their advertisements or brand images when they have nothing to do with skateboarding. When I see brand new boards now days with lightning bolts on them to me it just feels like an attempt at a cash grab. It would be different if it was a replication of an old board template. A recreation and a throw back to an old pin tailed Lopez, then I get it. I get so many unrelated new boards with bolts on them in for repair now days, EPS/epoxy fish, mini mals, twin fins that have nothing to do with what lightning bolt once was. Back in the day, there was a license to produce lightning bolts. Here in NZ only Knackers and Wayne Parkes held that license (Wayne still technically has it). Wayne also holds the Atlas license too and still produces Atlas logs and on the same token it would be ick if I branded a board of mine with the atlas logo. The shapers you’ve listed are the bees knees for sure, especially unit 1. Collectibility wise, those are the signatures you’re looking for! By the end of lightning bolt there were licenses to produce all over the world and that’s probably one of the many things that lead to their eventual downfall.

Hard yakka these fins but always so worth it at the end!

Aloha and mahalo! Love hearing about those old boards, where they came from, who owned them and where they ended up. There’s some beauties over there on the islands!

A surfboard specific poly resin. Most resin suppliers will carry it. If your next step is sanding then you want to use a finishing (sanding) resin, if you need to add more material on top in your next stage (ie. Resin coat over lamination) then you want to use a laminating resin (remains sticky after curing to allow for more material to be added and bond) 🤙

They sell dental picks?! Well I never! What don’t they sell 😆