New website

The new website is online, still loads to be added and a little tweaking but it's getting there.
Check it out at www.dingdevilssurfboardrepairs.co.uk

Airbrushed resin tint matching

Matching resin swirls is near on impossible using pigments and is better done with airbrush for it to look right.
This takayama had the bottom of the nose ripped out after kissing some rocks, the right hand side off the nose has been filled, re-glassed and then a resin swirl effect put on with the airbrush to match the original colours of the board. After a gloss coat over the colour work the repair is invisible.

Surftech tail repair

Surftech tail repair, damaged high density foam replaced, re-glassed and colour matched.

Busy Busy

Now and again a board comes in that you wouldn't mind hanging on to, the yellow and black gulfstream longboard being one of them. Local quality hand made goodness. Check them out at
http://www.gulfstreamsurfboards.co.uk/

Don't think the camera likes uv lights, Probably not good for my eyes either.

Firewire surfboard repairs

Firewire surfboard repairs
What appears on the surface to be a scratch after coming in over rocks turns out to have cracked the core cell right down to the inner glass. Out with the busted stuff and in with the new.

Vintage tiki single fin resto

Late sixties, early seventies tiki single fin with some pretty serious damage to the tail, nose, rails, the list goes on.....

With the new tail constructed its time for some swearing and head scratching.
Trying to match 40 year old paint is no fun at all and usually involves putting it on, letting it dry standing back and have a cuppa then taking it off again and start over. After a few hours and some unconventional use of tea in the airbrush to make the paint look aged , its time to move on to the other 20 or so holes in the board. We love it!

Custard point nose repair

Think i will let the customer put it back in it's board bag. There's nothing like the sound of sand grating against a freshly glossed nose.

The new workshop

At last we have moved into a bigger workshop, no more juggling boards and plenty of rack space. The move has coincided with the best run of swell of the year and i have missed the lot. Still heaps to do but its getting there.

Epoxy sandwich construction repair

We get a fair amount of epoxy sandwich construction boards come through the workshop that have been repaired with normal ding repair methods, be it glass and epoxy or that nasty putty stuff. The repair might look good and will last a few months before cracking and filling your board full of lovely salt water. It only takes a few minutes for the water to get into the eps core but it can take a few months for us to get it out again. We repair your Surftech, resin 8 or firewire surfboards with the correct materials that will last.

The ding putty was removed to reveal shattered high density foam and compressed eps.

Damage removed

Eps core replaced

Sanded back and faired

Eps and HD foam patches laminated

Release film and breather fabric in place

Glass and HD foam vacuum bagged and left to cure.
Once cured we sand back and laminate with another layer of glass as with a normal repair.
Outer layer of glass on and sanded
Any imperfections or pinholes filled with a glazing compound and wet sanded.



Paint colour matched and ready to surf

Takayama rail repair

The damage on this takayama longboard had previously been repaired by someone else. This whole void in the rail had been filled with q-cell and glassed over. With no give in the filler the old repair cracked at both ends as the board flexed. We took out all the filler and replaced it with foam, re- glassed and colour matched the area, Then tripped over the sander left on the floor.

Surftech repairs

Oooooooooooh!
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Whack to the jacobs!!

This jacobs longboard came in the other day with a de-lam on the deck right through the decal. After a few jokes about laminating a jacobs cream cracker box under the glass and worries about getting crumbs in the hot coat a call was made to bing surfboards in the states. One week later and a new decal arrived on our doorstep , great customer service bing, we salute you.















Old decal sanded out, in with the new one. Must admit this is one of the nicest longboards we have seen for a while. Good to see it fixed properly.

Epoxy repair on bennet rescue board

Don't know why i have started making the text match the boards maybe i'm in touch with my feminine side, or more like some weird ocd kicking in after trying to colour match this rescue board for the best part of a morning. After a call to bennet to try and get a paint code they even admitted it's a hard one to match. So i did the only thing i could and threw my teddy out of my pram, sulked for a bit then left it for fred to sort out. Only took him half an hour.

This week we have mostly been.........

Tail crunch

Shattered glass removed, board sanded and filled.































All done, time for a cuppa...

The curse of the killer wabbit

Jimmy let me go mad with the airbrush on one of
his boards. How was i to know that rabbits on a sea going
vessel are bad luck.

"A rabbit’s foot has been a symbol of good luck for a very long time. Even early sailors would carry one to keep them safe as they sailed. A whole rabbit was a different story. Even when ships carried live chickens and other small animals for food on long journeys, rabbits were not ever brought. A live rabbit aboard a ship was sure to bring tragedy and death to all aboard."

Two days later whilst surfing a boulder reef he smashed up the nose of his s core.
Could it be the curse of the killer wabbit?

flouro pigments YUMMY!!

Been so busy lately that i keep forgetting to get some photo's of the repairs, so here's one of kringle instead looking chuffed to bits with his new rash vest. Ears down and tail between legs, a sure sign of a happy hound.

Attack of the killer roof straps

Tight roof straps equals trashed boards. The second one this week , must have something to do with the stress levels rising with the kids being on holiday , resulting in overzealous strap straining to get to the beach quick and get some peace in the water.












In to the ding devils HQ for a nice hug , a sprinkling of pixie dust then a little polish with concentrated kittens tears.
[Ding devils would like to add no kittens were harmed in the repair of this board]















Just another crunched nose












In order for search engines to find our pages we need to try and slip in a few keywords relevant to our business ie north devon surfboard repairs or ding repairs north devon or maybe even surfboard ding repairs for the north devon and north cornwall area. The thing i find hard is trying to slip these words into a paragraph whilst being informative and slightly witty. It's a hard life.....

That should do the trick.