I always talk about restorations like surgery. Your board can’t begin to heal until you have cut out all the bad stuff. In the case of the bing it wouldn’t be open heart surgery but not exactly out patient surgery either. The nose had some major damage and obvious previous repairs. During one of the old repairs they sanded into the red gloss panels so we would have to sand it all off and start new because you will never exactly match the red color due to sun blush. We also had to sand off this improvised leash loop made of resined on cord even though it was very sweet.
