Wednesday, January 4, 2012

We Padded Surf Machine's Board Tonight

It looks awesome

3 comments:

kirk said...

how exactly do you custom cut your pad to fit the outline of the board? beautiful board, btw!

NC Paddle Surfer said...

http://ncpaddlesurfer.blogspot.com/2011/08/how-to-redeck-naish-sup.html

1) I made jig to draw pencil line on deck 2.5" in from rail around perimeter.

2) Tape along pencil line, 3 layers of tape to make it very thick.

3) Cover the deck with a big sheet of paper. Now I can trace on the paper the pad outline. I can feel the thick tape under the paper, making tracing possible.

4) I save money and use Gel contact cement to stick the hyrdro turf pads. Saves $20/board.

5) Sometimes the pad will grow in size when wetting with cement. But no fear, since 3 layers of tape outline the pad area, if the pad overlaps the tape, it's easy to trim with a razor blade and not score the board.

kirk said...

makes perfect sense. thanks!