Potential re-shape project?

[shawnzee]

I've got a buckled 9'4" Robert August retro noserider with 83" of unbuckled foam... 23" wide, pretty sure it's 3" thick
Aside from the buckle, the board has some dings and bumps but is in good shape. Was really fun while it lasted: nicely foiled rails and a teardrop scoop under the nose.

Recently saw Korey @hydrophilesurfcraft revive some used foam and was curious if anyone in SoCal was interested in a similar project...
I'd be down to invest in a project OR donate but I'd wanna be able to check out the final product

Anyone feeling like this is something fun/cool/interesting feel free to hit me up. I can deliver and only ask to be a part of the project.

Hit me up...

 

[Bighouse]

What usually hurts these projects is lack of foam
to create rocker. Put a straight edge on the bottom and take the rocker dimensions in the nose and tail. Then compare those #s to the rocker of a 6’0 to 6’6 board.

 

[JMJackFish]

Bighouse is right. The tail rocker will be a challenge from where that buckle is. You could shape it in which could get it thin and require glass ons. If you were here we would make some lemonade...

 

[shawnzee]

dangit, i love lemonade... but NC is so far away

 

[shawnzee]

any opinion on if it's worth the time and effort to repair?

 

[Chilly Willy]

I've seen buckled and broken boards repaired. It's more of an expert level repair, but it doesn't look *that bad* all things considered. Not sure if it would ride like it once did, but you never know -- it might ride better. Wasn't there a Cooperfish model called "The Kink", based on a buckled board?

If you stick with a project instead of repairing, maybe the key is to think outside the box with something like a paipo / fiberglass bodyboard. You'd probably get two or more out of it. Or maybe several dozen handplanes. That's what I did when stripping a beater a few years ago -- removing the glass pulled off a lot more foam than I expected, so I ended up turning it into almost a dozen handplanes that I used for shaping/glassing practice.

 

[treebeard]

any opinion on if it's worth the time and effort to repair?

I’ve done this twice and had fun doing it. I made a mini simmons out of a delamed old funboard and an egg out of an old log. Unfortunately both ended up a bit too small for me.

It was a great experience, but might not do it again since glassing materials are so expensive.

 

[Skegg]

I've been working on an old board where the whole deck delaminated. Calling it a "restore" but more of a "reimagine." The project has been expensive and time consuming but really fun and I've learned a lot.

If you decide to make something out of the board, do it for the fun of the project itself and consider it a bonus if the end product is something worth riding.

 

[SMUKES]

I stripped and reshaped a Jacobs in Highschool. What a mess. Should've just bought a blank. There's not enough foam there for anything but a bunch of hand planes.

 

[miscreant]

Is there an alaia or a piapo in there?