How to repair a surfboard professionaly fix a surfboard

[@markstang1965able]

Hands down the best repair for the perfectionist like an amateur person like me that wants to do it right. Thank you for a perfect professional video. To the point. No music.

[@jorgk.732]

Just dinged my directional kiteboard and have been loooking for someone to guide me through the repair. This is by far the best step-by-step approach I have come across.

[@kennyboy183]

yes, you're the lord of the dings ! nice to see someone working cleanly and professionnaly with great tools !

[@diverdave4056]

...mmm perhaps you can make a few router patterns to the cut out of the dings in the board and ones to cut exact fit foam plugs !

[@battousaikicks]

Great video, you should make a whole series! Thanks!

[@riaanvanheerden3811]

Mate any chance you can do more repair videos? You are by far the most skilled and informative person out there in youtube land!! I jhabe learnt so much from the couple vids you have put up here!

[@jehovahhendrickson253]

nice detail in repair video Maura

[@GregPentecost]

Great informative video. Look forward to my home repairs getting better!

[@kingwilly1000]

it might be a while before i get around to it though i have a lot of other projects im working on when i do it i will let you know ! thanks for your help surfmoura.

[@terrywilson7030]

Thanks for the tips.

[@Wiwwih2b]

Kick ass! I have a board to fix today, and have some left other broken board foam to use. This is a great video. I would add, what's the drying time typically before deciding to sand after the layer of filler? Then time before glossing?

[@Bromar01]

Nice Video, I enjoyed just watching it let alone the info that was given

[@3sgtepwnzr]

Hi Moura, thanks for the great vid! What's the step at 6:12? you didn't say what you were applying there.

[@sanfranciscobay]

Thanks for posting the video. You make it look easy, which it is, if you know what you are doing.

[@bluesurfertodd]

hey dude, this is a sweet video, leaves lots of questions for us backyard / family ding repairers, but i enjoyed seeing a pro do it . cheers

[@jfashner]

What kind of polishing compound do you use to achieve such a high gloss at the end?

[@YakMotley]

Awesome video!

[@Gettingbakedful]

Thanks for sharing with us. great work!

[@greggerhale]

what is a hot coat? When glossing do you use the same epoxy/resin mixture you used for the repair or is it a separate chemical?

[@OEFarredondo]

It’s resin and hardener/catalyst or what ever your using. Nothing else just straight resin n hardener. You could if you want to do a little extra work and gloss out the spot.

[@dantemagnani]

Great video!! what do you use to polish the finished board with?

[@dhsaaf]

This is really a great video...thanks so much for posting it. You make it look so easy I'm going to try it myself. What is the "filler" resin?

[@lanzi34]

I'm working on it. One more it's coming up. Thanks!

[@tomcunningham9480]

definetly the lord of the dings

[@stewfish1818]

I have to now paint my tail ding repair. Can you give a little advice. What type of paint, and or pigment, base, option for home do you recommend? This is what I'm thinking. I had to use epoxy resin to match the manufacturer's resin type and for the eps inside. I have to do brown background with little tiny dashes to make it look like bamboo, a very dark blue stripe, and then white back ground. I was going to just get a small cheap harbor freight air brush kit. Should I be adding pigment to the epoxy? I'm worried about the epoxy yellowing if I try it that route. What about acrylic and then epoxy over as the fiberglass store here recommends? Rust-oleum universal expensive $8 spray paints always seem to have the best bond for box store spray paints in my experience. What type of clear coat should I use? On my shelf I have a can of professional-ish spraymax 2k glamour high gloss clear coat which has an activator you mix inside the can after pushing a button on the bottom. I also picked up one of those prevail sprayers (home paint can device) for $8 at the fiberglass store to try also. I have had bad dark yellowing results by mixing white pigment with epoxy in the past for a boat ding; wish I knew about microspeheres then.

[@thelordofthedingsrepairs]

+Olga Stewart you can just use water based paint, and then spray acrylic krylon on top of it. I don't know where you live, but Nova Color , in Los Angeles area sells the best water base paint for surfboards. buy yourself a spray gun at home depot , for less then 30 dollars, mix the paint with water, about 25 to 35%, or until the paint runs, but not drip from the mixing stick. good luck!

[@federicotalone9534]

very good video, but would like to know% use of Catalyst and microballoons! thanks

[@floydage1]

Great video. Can pressure dings be repaired?

[@pet_cow_5452]

What a legend! Thanks for this

[@MrCelsoAguiar]

very nice results!

[@thelordofthedingsrepairs]

@gredsfed13 you should use only 4oz cloth for repairs. Its liter and more flexible.

[@justjackman]

Hey great vid. What router bit are you using?

[@isaacsoucy2360]

here in 2019, this guy knows whats up

[@patefutch6168]

31 seconds in WOW THE two boards behind him have more rocker than anything from early 90’s ever had hahah

[@Cwestion]

any way to do a similar quality repair job without the power tools? just in case you need to do that kind of repair on a surf trip

[@MorriganzKO]

Hey! its the guy who played in North shore! TURTLE! whats up brudda, how about them haolis... no seriously though... that movie kicks ass

[@MrKakapeepeepoopoo]

o.o is that a balsa and redwood longboard in the background standing up?:D

[@weseethroughu]

someone tossed a dinged out nice board in storage and im looking to repair it. its aprox 6 ft 3 inches or smaller. red over all color and im here abouit the color part and why is everyoine using cells. are cells a must? because i dont haev acess to foam. i would assume using cells is a must. what kind of pigment do you use? powerder. to mix with resin.. can u mix color oigment wiht cells? and skip ok its filling and resin, and fiber and i have go go back. im hope to do this project this summer.

[@Lorenzogufi]

You are awesome mate!!!

[@Njsrufrider]

So your taking a piece of foam instead of using resin/q cell?

[@Njsrufrider]

So is this common? Placing foam in instead of filling up the hole with resin/q-cell?

[@Skimnoodle]

Where do you buy those pigment colors? And what kind of resin are you using? is it a resin that requires a hardner?

[@carcharodonoodle]

I cannot get over the name "Lord of the Dings" XD

[@ugmold]

Nice work

[@TheWilliam1g]

thanks for the video! it helped out a lot!

[@kingwilly1000]

where do you get the foam and how do you know the right shape for the foam?

[@madmax3022]

Great video :) thank you. I've got a lot of work ahead of me now after seeing that haha I can't wait

[@sanfranciscobay]

How much would you charge a customer to repair the bottom ding in the gold board?

[@banjarlp454]

for pigments only use oil based. acrylic paint is to be used only when you air brush the repair.

[@cecilymyhro]

are you using a grinder or sander/polisher to sand fiberglass and polish? what rpms are you using for those applications?

[@vtasurf1277]

Thank you, from VTA CALIFORNIA :)

[@Carlshaper]

Very cool man, great video, good job, see ya my friend!

[@kingwilly1000]

shoulld i cut off the jaged nose and tail before i glass it? where can i get the meterieals for this? and how much does it normaly cost? and how many layers of glass do i need?

[@Schmaus3]

looks much better than my home repairs lol

[@tomjones2348]

Wow! A real artist. I your shop is in my area of central florida, I'd definately take my boards to you! The repair guy's I've used in this area so far are hacks....extremely sloppy, crappy work.

[@l7ay7aco]

I have a ding in my board and don't no wich type of foam to use and wich type of resin i should use can you help me THX

[@lie.shhYT808]

I got a old board because I just started surfing, but the board needs some MAJOR repairs. It has at least 3 holes and a bunch of scratch marks, do you think a simple ding repair kit would do the job well than simply turning it in to get it professionally done?

[@calebkeller9256]

probably be more effective and less of a hassle to just get it professionally done

[@hazwaz6385]

LYSH Mahimahi same here what did you end up doing? My board was only 100 dollars so I feel an expensive repair isn't worth it.

[@ilsurfing1998]

Hello, my surfboard was driven over by a car today and i was literally crying (my surfboard is just everything to me..)..my tail got crushed really bad, my input is ok but there's a huge rip in the fibreglass and the fins broke...Do you think it's fixable? I love my surfboard so much

[@mcs9103]

what sort of paint did you spray? lacquer or acrylic? I coated gloss on the spray, all gloss got so messy. even it dryed so long..

[@marianogalan9332]

Hi Moura, great video! I just have a question. I couldn't find white pigment, do you know if there is any other white paint that might work adding to the filler? Enamel? Acrylic? Gouache? IN the other hand I bought a white spray, but in your video seems that you apply it after sandiong the hot coating... is not supposed to be hot coating the last step? If I decide to pain with white spray, what should be the right order? Thanks!

[@flatlander6928]

Late here BUT, for future reference, West Marine has white pigment, it 10 bucks for 2 oz tho.

[@weyer69]

What is the resin mixture for the gloss coat? Just standard mixture of is there an additive????

[@thelordofthedingsrepairs]

same as hot coat, resin with surfacing agent in it and the same amount of hardener as hot coat.

[@dalienrivera6093]

what is hot coat ? only resin and hardner ?

[@christafari100]

Did you wait for the filler resin to dry before you applied the first fiberglass layer?

[@thelordofthedingsrepairs]

no, you can if you want, but you don't need to wait.

[@christafari100]

Thanks a lot!

[@thelordofthedingsrepairs]

I use acrylic paint from Nova Color, Los Angeles , Ca

[@deweypug]

Fantastic!

[@thelordofthedingsrepairs]

to glue the foam onto the board, I use resin, mixed with resin thikener (q-cel) and mixed in pigment (orange in this case). The color I was refering to , Nova Color its the acrylic, water base, that is spray over the repair.

[@HappyPappynKatyTX]

excellent. Thanks brutha

[@kingwilly1000]

how would you glass over the tip

[@davisdonnell55]

Make the surface smooth and sand appropriately and lay probably a 4oz cloth over the surface and glass as normal.

[@amine770]

"When you spend so many years surfing and repairing surfboards, you know exactly what to do to make a surfboard that works".

[@Lorenzogufi]

How come the fibre doesn’t move when you squeeze it???

[@boycotttake]

what is kind of filler do you use ? i want to know the name and how long does curing take ?

[@dabrazillionaire]

blank surfboard blocks

[@dantedante21]

i have an old boarda really old board foam looks ok tho could i foam from that for a repair

[@thelordofthedingsrepairs]

you get the foam from a old surfboard. attatch the piece of foam to the area with resin filler and let dry. After it dries, bring this attatched piece of foam to the shape of the board.

[@vivalacan55]

thank you!

[@ВладДом]

Perfect!

[@11Airshow11]

thanks for making the video.... PEACE!!!!

[@marioveljacadotcom]

you are the king! )

[@Njsrufrider]

Would you still use the grinder on a shortboard that doesn't have as much fiberglass/resin on it as the board in the video might?

[@Njsrufrider]

Or would you just use a more aggressive sandpaper/sander

[@thelordofthedingsrepairs]

you should sand off all damaged fibers and foam from the area, making a perfect shaped area for the new foam. cut off any old foam from a old surfboard and glue it on with filler. After filler dries, sand the foam, bringing it to the shape of the board. Make sure foam its a hair lower then the surfface. Now you can place the new fibers over the foam. Good luck.

[@AntuRubicon]

Awesome! Thanks for this! W00t!

[@tiagoeloy1042]

The best!!

amazing

[@uomoplanante]

Grande!

[@originalvalleykid]

SUPERB!

[@Schmaus3]

its resin with extra hardener...it gets literally hot

[@dhead64]

Thank you!

[@joesurfer9754]

It would have been real nice if the guy would have shown a close-up of the finished repair.

[@owczar2001]

What is exactly a "filler"?

[@thelordofthedingsrepairs]

filler is a mixture of lam resin , cabosil and microballons.

[@owczar2001]

Mauricio de souza thanks, can you also tell me what you use as a colour pigment?

[@saliboyer9166]

Mauricio de souza Qcell

[@nanungsutarwan4589]

Good joop.

[@toastylad4043]

Took my board glossed finished board to a guy I found on yelp who had some good reviews dude fixed the ding sure and it’s watertight but he didn’t do a gloss coat or even match the resin color now I just have a giant dark blue mark on my light blue surfboard that’s doesn’t even match the shine of the board got ripped of it sucks because I waited 6 months for that board and the moment some kook drops in on me and dings it I get some giant mark left on my board should’ve just taken it to a professional repair place where they would have done it right I would have gladly waited a week or two for it to be done right like I had in the past rip

[@davisdonnell55]

Depends. You can but to a certain extent. Some guys just glass over the tip and leave the nose off. Your preference really..

[@thelordofthedingsrepairs]

yes you can, but you need to have a sanding block and lots of time in your hands. It will take about 10 times longer.

[@kingwilly1000]

can you fix a broken off nose

[@thelordofthedingsrepairs]

@lanzi34 also watch : How to repair a surfboard professionaly fix a surfboard ding part 2

[@Cinepobrefilmfestival]

repair seminar :)

[@thelordofthedingsrepairs]

yes I could fix it for you. Also another video of mine: How to repair a surfboard professionaly fix a surfboard ding part 2. It may be very helpful for you.

[@sayansmith2039]

Because when the surfboard is set up, it's very small holes like it s pores that you're supposed to be friends with

[@thelordofthedingsrepairs]

@3sgtepwnzr I was just leveling a low spot left after I had sanded the hot coat.

[@bmcneil112]

#Great! =)

[@silvanthurig8219]

what exacly is the content of the filler?

[@jeremystanley6815]

Lord OVER KILL!!!

[@SurfingB8]

Be my mentor please. Thanks.

[@weseethroughu]

can your write this down. im a autistic and cant follow things. written might help