A mate needed a softboard for his daughter & when I offered him mine he offered me this
Its a circa 1985 - 1990 Santosha shaped by Mark Ogram dims 6'6 x 19 x 2. The 2 inches is maintained from the rocker to the front fins & the photo's don't do the depth & awesome'ness of the channels justice. Its only got a few light pressures and a very small delamination on the bottom Santosha decal which is also has a small hole.
I want to clean this board up & ride it, I reckon it will be sick. My friend said it rides great, but he has another old board that is his favourite.
Obviously it needs a light sand & from memory these speed finish boards were basically boards which were sanded & then didn't have a filler or gloss coat.
Considering the glass is so old I'm worried it might be brittle & break easily. So I'm tempted to have it glassed with like 1 ounce glass or something. At the very least I want a fresh coat of resin on it.
What do you guys think, will the age of the board make it weak? What do yuz reckon I should do?
I wanna ride this thing so bad, but not until I know its strong.
I would give it a light sand all over with a gentle orbital sander with around 180 grit - enough to get it back to clean glass - try not to go down to the cloth. Then two light brush coats of resin at 90 degrees to each other - ie one long ways and one cross ways to fill all the little micro fractures etc. and then rub back with 180/320/600/800/1200 grit wet and dry for a 'speed finish'. 2-3 days careful work.
Spent a couple of hours dewaxing, light sanding & patching a couple of holes today. Didn't go too hard on the reno coz I'm gonna surf it as a novelty board every now & again for fun. Not gonna hang it on a wall...but yeah, fang'n to surf it
