After the Lance Carson blew up like a balloon we finally opened her up and found the reason why. All the stringers were rotten. All three stringers were completely gone so the air force into the delam ran down the length of the board using the holes where the stringers used to be. You can see in the picture how the board just fell apart in three pieces because the stringers no longer held the foam together.

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Lance Carson Restoration Part 3

Someone found this Bob White under the Old Lifeguard station in Virginia Beach. As you can see by the original picture it was trashed. Thirteen inches of the nose was missing. Huge chunks were missing out of the sides and the glass was basically peeled all the way down top and bottom like a banana. When the kid brought it to us we told him it was a total loss and it was. It would have cost way too much to restore the thing to even be able to use it. The kid asked us to throw it away for him in our dumpster and I did just that but then started to think that someday we might get another Bob White that we can trade parts and maybe get a little use out of the relic. So up in the attic it went. About five years later I pulled it out thinking I should throw it away but the guys at the shop wanted the challenge so a few hundred man hours later she turned into a board anyone would be proud to own.

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Bob White Total Restoration

We laid down the gloss top and bottom. Austin sanded her down with 400 grit top and bottom. Followed that up with 600 grit top and bottom. Then used compound and a new wool bonnet to polish out the board. Finally he used Surluster with a little teflon added to give it a final buff. Check out the fin. It came out awesome.

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Bing S207 Restoration Final

After Austin laid down all the pigment Joe spends a little extra one on one time cleaning up the edges and sanding the whole thing down for the gloss.

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Bing S207 Restoration Part 6

After fixing the nose ding, a couple of other minor dings, and refoiling the fin, we rehotcoated the board and sanded the whole thing down with 100 grit.  Next we taped off the original panel spots and Austin laid down the new pigment.

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Bing S207 Restoration Part 5

This is Austin using our Soft Pad with 100 grit to get around the rails, nose, tail, and fin.

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Bing S207 Restoration Part 4

Its time to break out the big Milwaukee’s with the 36 grit disc. This is something you shouldn’t try if you haven’t used one before. You can take the board down to the weave in seconds or take your knuckle down to the bone even quicker but thats another story. Notice how nice and bright the foam is underneath the pigment. If you didn’t care about it being original you could always flip flop the color scheme and you would have a board that was almost bright as new. In this case the customer wanted it original so we sanded off the original pigment and laid down the new pigment in its place. Also when using the 36 grit you need to watch around the nose, tail, rails, and fins. We generally switch to a less aggressive grit with a softer pad to hit those areas.

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Bing S207 Restoration Part 3

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.

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Bing S207 Restoration Part 2

This bing was in pretty good shape. A lot better than most of them we had worked on lately. The board had cracks at the base of the fin and the fin bead was worn down. This is very common for the older boards. A lot of them were dragging causing damage to the fin or to the rails near the fin. This board also had a stylish leash loop installed sometime in its past. The major problem was the nose. She had some splits and old repairs that just didn’t cut it. The nose repairs unfortunately ran into the old red panels so they were also in need of replacing.

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Bing S207 Restoration

We laid down the gloss coat then sanded with 400 grit followed by 600 grit.  Polished her up with rubbing compound and surluster.  Nothing but the photo spread left to complete.  The cool thing was that she was within ounces of the original weight.

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Greg Noll Gun Restoration Final