Two years ago I bought a snowboard at a thrift store and didn't get the chance to use it that winter. Since I'm working at Bullock's Autobody, the tools for painting and bodywork are easy to access so I thought I would repair the chips in my board and give it a new paint job. This first picture is what it looked like before I started working on it.
This gouge is on the front of the board. I sanded it down to give the filler something to grab and then I filled it with a fibreglass body filler.
This is after sanding down the filler and its now ready for priming. All body fillers need to be primed before they're painted or else they will show through the paint.
The repair has now been primed and the whole board needs to be sanded down to get rid of the texture the board came with from the factory. I wanted the finished product to be as smooth as possible.
I decided to paint the board with two different colors and split them diagonally down the length of the board. We painted it over the split line so that the silver would overlap the blue by a little bit.
Wendell, the painter at Bullocks, helped me a bit with the silver because it was a metallic paint and in order to get it to look good, you have to put down the final pass just right so all the flecks in the paint stand up in the same way. We masked off the blue and started painting the silver.
This is the almost finished product. Wendell put down two or three clear coats to seal the paint and then he wet-sanded the whole thing. After that he put down another two coats of clear so it would look like glass. It turned out awesome! The only thing left is to sharpen the edges, wax the base and put my bindings back on.
And there you go. I bought a small iron and some board wax and did the waxing myself as well as sharpening the edges. I have to say that it's alot better to learn to do that part of it yourself rather than paying $25-30 every couple times you go snowboarding.
3 comments:
Would it be possible to take one of my boards...and on the top strip it down and put a thin sheet of wood on that is stained. So the board has a stained wood finished look to it??
Any ideas on if you could glues something down on it?
glue*
I had written out a long reply and went to post it and it deleted on me. The only thing I see that might give you a problem with putting down a thin sheet of wood is that the board flexes a lot while you use it and if there is any inconsistency in the glue, it may start to crack and peel up. Also, having a sheet of wood that thin would be susceptible to chipping from riding the lifts or hitting rocks or tree branches. One thing I could think of that wouldn't necessarily be cheaper but easier to do is to call up a vinyl shop and see if they have any prints of wood grains or if they could make one about 2' x 6'. The last thing I could think of is I just googled faux wood grain tools where you take this molding/stamper and create a wood design on your project. I would recommend using an automotive acrylic paint. That's what I used on my snowboard because the clear coat I used was also an automotive product. After your "paint" your wood design on you could seal it with two to three clear coats and it would protect it. Hope this helps!
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