Couple of oldies

Tiki and freedom surfboards single fins in for a bit of a touch up.

Surftech rail repair

More courier carnage

I have a bit of a love hate thing going on with couriers. How many days i have wasted waiting for a delivery between 7am and 8 pm only to have my item arrive smashed to bits at 7pm.
On the other hand they do keep a steady flow of busted boards coming through the workshop.

Meltdown!

Poly resin and eps are not the best of friends.

Stu's run in with the baggage handlers

Baggage handlers, a surfboards worst nightmare , a ding repairers dream. Well Stu, I recon you got off quite lightly on this one. At least the board was in one piece.

Nine plus tail crunch

Charleys surftech

Small crack on the surface usually means large crack inside the board so out with the sander.

Oh well wrong again, small crack on the outside turns out to be two cracks on the inside


Looks like the repair will be put to the test next time croyde is firing. http://charleysurfsalot.blogspot.com/

Two very buggered tails

First up is a nine plus longboard with various old crappy repairs that needed to be removed before giving it some lovin.



Resin 8 with a nasty leash cut through the rear end. It's for this reason that i have stopped wearing thongs, except for those really hot days in the workshop. Nothing worse than catching the string on your shaping stands and damaging your tail.

New website

The new website is online, still loads to be added and a little tweaking but it's getting there.
Check it out at www.dingdevilssurfboardrepairs.co.uk

Airbrushed resin tint matching

Matching resin swirls is near on impossible using pigments and is better done with airbrush for it to look right.
This takayama had the bottom of the nose ripped out after kissing some rocks, the right hand side off the nose has been filled, re-glassed and then a resin swirl effect put on with the airbrush to match the original colours of the board. After a gloss coat over the colour work the repair is invisible.