I'm a guy outside Chicago who spends a few weeks a year in San Diego surfing, am an ok surfer but have never shaped, don't have cabinet-makers skills, and have no nearby surfboard shops to go into to ask advice . . . the last one whose first project should be building a hollow wooden board. I tried it nonetheless and now that I'm done it was awesome. My understanding of board features, characteristics and trade-offs as well as my appreciation for those who actually know how to do this has skyrocketed.

Saturday, March 26, 2011

Cheater Coat

Visited Moonlight Glassing today - they've got the cheater coat on the top deck. After working on this for the last couple of months,seeing the board with the cheater coat is unbelievable - the wood pops with that first coat. Was expecting to leave it @ Moonlight until the next time I'm in San Diego - probably June, but Peter @ Moonlight says he might  finish it this week before I head back to Chicago.  My fingers are crossed as w/just the first coat, it looks incredible. It'll be unbelievable fully glassed with the gloss coat.
Decided to put a small logo on the board & kept it simple: "D Reese", with "Basement Boards"a smaller font below; both in Lucida Handwriting font. Placing it just above the tail block fully within one of the cedar bands. 
Working on this alone in the basement since Thanksgiving, it's hard to describe how satisfying it was to have positive input from the guys @ Moonlight who handle hundreds or thousands of boards each year. Am really flattered by their comments and Peter's blog post (http://www.tapedoff.com/  see entry for 3/25/11).  I'll take them up on the offer of visiting them a couple of times this week to see stages of the process.

Here's Peter from Moonlight with my son, Sam, with the board after the cheater coat. It's hard to describe how happy I am with how it's looking.
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