restoring an old wakeskate

quik876 · Faceplant Joined: 23 Nov 2008 Posts: 1 City: Starke

S'up everyone? got a question on restoring a a wood deck wakeskate.

A friend of mine has a Phriction 113 skate, a couple of months back, we lost the EVA foam that was layed out on the deck. Now I got the idea to repair some of the damage to it, fiberglass the deck (to seal it) and slap some new griptape on it.

anybody ever done this before? and have some tips on doin it I'd appreciate it this' my first shot at doin' this so I'm tryin to get all the info I can before I get started.

righteous · Backside 180 Joined: 25 Sep 2006 Posts: 679 City: orlando

s'up.

nick · Posted: Nov 26, 2008 1:52 pm Post subject:

quik876, Unless you are good with fiberglass, you might want to try spar urethane. Fiberglass can be a bit messy...

Welcome to the site!

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POPTART · 360 flip Joined: 24 Jul 2007 Posts: 7621

Welcome!

just buy a new board

anything will work

tjmac · Backside 180 Joined: 08 Nov 2007 Posts: 780 City: valley

nick, whats spar urathane?

uidzero · Kickflip Joined: 01 Jun 2005 Posts: 3839 City: Casselberry

It's an oil-based urethane sealant for wood...

tjmac · Backside 180 Joined: 08 Nov 2007 Posts: 780 City: valley

so its just a sealant not like something like fiberglass

uidzero · Kickflip Joined: 01 Jun 2005 Posts: 3839 City: Casselberry

no it's not like fiberglass... but if you want to do some small repairs you can just fill any dings/cracks with wood putty and seal it with spar.

there's no point in encasing the entire board in fiberglass IMO. especially a Phriction Very Happy

tjmac · Backside 180 Joined: 08 Nov 2007 Posts: 780 City: valley

o i was just wonderin.

joel · Backside 180 Joined: 20 Apr 2008 Posts: 747 City: ORLANDO

quik876, yeah i use to have one of those, all i did was spray paint it that same gold color on the sides and on top then slapped some jessup grip on their. It worked fine for the rest of the time I used it. Mine was an 06 btw.