New life from broken surfboard #paulcarterart

New life from a broken surfboard

A friend of mine called me one day and said I have 3/4 of a broken 9ft board, would you like it.

He was surfing on a pretty big day when the board broke  a couple feet from the nose.

He stripped all the glass off the board and it was ready to be re-shaped for the second time and a new life.

This is the outline I could cut out of the remaining blank, which was about 3 inches thick.

I decided to go with a 1970s style single fin outline as much as I could with what was left of the blank.

I had to do a lot of rough shaping to shape in the nose, rocker and tail rocker Rails etc.

This board could be ridden in the right Surf.

Here are some close-up photos of the hand shaped and hand-painted surfboard.

The back has two plugs with a wire through it to hang on the wall, and it does have a long box for single fin set up.

This is completely free hand painted, and hand shaped using acrylic, paint, with some highlights on the sanded coat before it was lost

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