I was showing a friend a 70's Twin Fin I recently restored to ride, and he said 'I have two old boards which have been sitting in my attic for decades. Do you want them?' As such I have come into possession of these two what I imagine are early 70's Single Fins. They both have Lightning Bolts on the Bottom. The Green one is super light. The Yellow one is a little heavier, but I'm guessing the Coat of House paint on the bottom is adding quite a bit of weight. My goal for both of these boards is to Restore them so that I can ride them and my kids can ride them. My little one chose Pink for the last one.. The Green one is so light, I think I have a lot of room to work with regarding fairing it out and making it a Cherry.
The Green Cherry
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Yellow Cherry
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Motivating Factor... @ 8-9 days out.. would like to ride that Green one in this next big NW Swell..
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Good luck.
That which can be assorted without evidence was read in an illegal magazine.
lot of steps inbetween.
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Sick!
More pics please
The nice thing about this Green Board is that it started off Very Light for it's volume. That was what I notcied first so I knew I had room to work with. I restore these to ride them, so I can't have them be too heavy. The first step was to sand down with 60 grit and see what was hiding. Ugh.. who stuffs big dings with folds of fiberglass cloth and pours resin over it and then slaps a loose fit of Fiberglass over that? There were a lot of repairs and they were all bad. Some had to be cut out. The Nose and Tail needed a lot of work. There were a bunch of spots on the rails which needed to be reinforced. There were two Big spots on the deck which were delaminated. The Fin was wobbly and would need to be reset. But, the overall shape was real nice and classic, and this thing was Way lighter than any of the old Single Fins I'd ridden before. So I had a good feeling.
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I like using the 4 parts Q-Cell to 1 PArt Polyester Resin for fills for rehaping. I cover it up after with Fiberglass, but it's a nice way to fill holes. I set up tape to create the walls for the fills and overfill. Same with the Delam areas. This does not add a lot of weight to the board and it's easy enough to shape. I sand it down just a little under flush so I can cover with Fiberglass.
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Once the Fiberglass is down on the holes and around the fin, I give the whole board a good sand with 120 and I start to see the shape. There's still a bunch of pressure dings, but sanding takes some down a litttle. I didn't want this board to be the Classic Dark Red with Yellow and Black Bolt because I want to ride it, and that's a little strong for me. But, I did want to include the Bolts as the Original. So I taped those off and mixed up some Yellow Opaque Tin with Poly Sanding Resin and added some Gold Flake. Did the same with Black Opaque and Gold Flake. The idea is to then Color the Whole Board with 2 Coats of Poly Sanding Resin and then when sanding down the Bolts will reveal themselves. For the Red I used 3 parts Red, 1 part yellow, 1 part white, and Gold Flake. I used two generous coats. Not super thick, but allowing enough resin for the coats to self level. This filled up most of the pressure dings. The pic which shows the relief of the bolts and some pressure dings is after one coat. After the second many of those filled in. I put on the second coat just as the first coat gelled up. First the top. Then the bottom, and I overlapped on the rails so they had some extra coats.
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