Surfboard Restoration Step by Step 

no joke, was super disappointed. This board was ripe for a full restore, not a duct tape job.

@@MichaelZimmerer Yeah almost everyone use fin plugs and leash plugs and think they are more "professional" when in fact they are just a cheaper and faster way to mass produce. Either that or some lame claim that fin plugs will make the board so much easier to travel with. But let's be honest. Most boards only travel between home and the point. Either in the back of the car or on a roof rack. Than and that it's no real problem to travel with fixed fin boards on a plane even. I've gone back and forth to Bali with a glassed on 6'9" glass on single fin without any trouble. Pack well.

@@MichaelZimmererif I was doing this restoration again today I’d do some things differently particularly the fin box. There is always different and often better ways to do things, but that’s part of the learning journey. The end result on this board was positive so I was happy. Sorry it super disappointed.

What brand of microfibres would you use instead of Q-cell

I appreciate your reply and your absolutely right. However this video is not made as a demonstration how professionals repair boards. There are other sites that provide expert instruction. This is more a fun project for a backyard restoration for everyday people. Most people including myself don’t have the infrastructure, tools or expertise as a professional. I’ve personally repaired quite few fin boxes this way and so far none have broken or proven faulty. Time will tell. But I do agree with your comment. Thanks

Seeing as you have a lot of experience, would you have changed the fin to a fin box or kept it as the glass on fin?

If it works, it works

That comment made me think of two boards I sold for peanuts that would cost real money today, had I knew it was posible to restore them. One was a T&C mini-gun by Glenn Minami, and the other a Lightingbolt by Tom Everly. Now I don't surf anymore got my revenge in the form of a Hardy's bamboo fly fishing rod a French lady sold me for 50€. As you said; one man's trash...

@ManuelSalasM That's a cool story...My first surfboard (over 30 years ago) was a Lightening Bolt, which had just been shipped brand spanking new (along with another one) from Mau'i to my local surf shop in NJ...those two beauties were just sitting there on the rack when my buddy & I walked into the shop...I immediately told my buddy, "I'm buying either one of those, so take your pick." Fortunately, he bought the smaller of the two--they were both thrusters...mine was 6'4" & his was a 6 footer...my buddy later had a custom shaped T&C made for him on O'ahu & shipped to Florida, where he moved...when he passed, his brother shipped my old best friend's T&C to me out here in San Diego...it was only a year or so old, & had only been surfed a few times & was still in mint condition

​@@aitutaki50 and that is a sad story, sorry about your lost. My Lightening Bolt was stolen from some American surfing Mundaka in 1980, and sold to me by a local. It had the wright red an yellow paint job we'd seen in movies of Gery Lopez and Mark Richards, glitter yellow paint on the deck that would spark in the sun. It was a magic carpet with a round tail that taught me to fly when I was just trying to run. I won't even get me stated into the story of the T&C. There were no surf shop in my town back them. Of course were both single fins. The first time I saw my friend George with a twin fin...well, we still laugh about it. Not as much as when our friend Spaghetti showed up with a Simon Andersen's thruster with fluorescent pink deck. Three fins? what have you been smoking? Pass it on. Well we was a small gang hanging by the beach, most mothers in town would warn you against. It was so difficult back then to get a nice surfboard that I was surfing singles till 1986, last being a McCoy lazor zap. Then suddenly everything was available and we all went for the new. But I'm sure those two would be highly collectable today, and so would the McCoy surely. Well, those times we enjoyed, didn't we. Sure you've shared great sessions with your friend. Quiete a few of those with whom I used to steal gas to go surfing are gone too. But not really, they're allays there taking your last bit of sur wax ;)

@@ManuelSalasM You're quite a gifted writer, particularly so as I assume English is not your native language...yes, surfing takes us places...for me, I was always equally fascinated by the very roots of surfing...it wasn't long until I took my first surf trip to Hawai'i, but I stayed on the Big Island for a couple of weeks along the North Kohala Coast...I ended up falling in love with the Big Island & the local lifestyle...eventually, after many surf trips there, I moved to the island of Hawai'i...long story short, I married an amazing Native Hawaiian woman named Mana, whose Mom was first cousin of Duke Kahanamoku...my wife & her family were all expert surfers...Mana passed about 10 years ago...her eldest brother, Hanalei, never spoke much to me...he was a true Native Hawaiian waterman...the afternoon of Mana's funeral, after we returned from lunch at an Irish Pub, he was in a talkative mood & he told me the most amazing stories about surfing O'ahu's South Shore when he was just a keiki, & all of the Kahanamoku brothers, who were all grown, were out surfing together, & Duke & his brother would all catch the biggest set waves from way outside, & surf the wave all the way to the beach, & any of the little kids (including their cousins) who got in their way as they blazed through to the inside, they'd swat away like flies, & laugh their asses off having so much fun...he told me a bunch of stories that evening about growing up in Hawai'i in an era from a very long time ago...his surfing skills, & his talents & genius as a musician, eventually took him all over the world 🌎...I live right on the Pacific Ocean nowadays, in South Mission Beach ⛱️, in San Diego, California USA 🇺🇸...today is a National Holiday, Labor Day, it's been a beautiful day at the beach, with nice clean lines from a South Swell filling-in early early this morning, before the wind got on it...I don't know too much about fly fishing, but I've always loved to fish with a spinning reel, or with a bait caster, both fresh & salt water...tight lines!

@@aitutaki50 You're right. My English sucks. I'm from Spain. From a town by the north shore called Gijón that the Romans built in the first century. Right where they thought, by looking at the north Atlantic's winters, the world ended into a Mare Tenebrosum. Some time later Spaniards prove them wrong and went across. And so did I wen I was young, to the Caribbean to work as a pro diver. Fell in love with the topics and married a Dominican woman (we have more than one thing in common) and I would be better of today haven't I become addicted to billfish and sport fishing boats I could hardly afford. You know; boat drinks and blood up to the ankles. If something a skin full of scars won't let me ever forget those days of screaming reels and waves rolling over unexplored shallow live reefs. Now I'm back home, I go to the river every so often just to feel in my feet the water passing by and talk to very elusive trouts. When I manage to land one in fair game, there it goes back to the water with a kiss. No complains at all, autumn is the most mellow season of the year, and of men

Thanks for your message. I put it in the sun for 10 minutes then used a wax comb to remove most but then mineral turps to remove the remaining film. Turps dissolves wax.