Mini-simmons from from old Longboard

Is that a trials bike in the background? Looks like my Planet-X sans paint.

 

The oval-ish downtube & short seattube caught my eye. I had a Jack Flash back in the lifetime warranty days. Broke it and got a Zebdi as a replacement. Haven't ridden much in the past 2 yrs. Time to get back on it during the flat spells. At least that's what my waistline says...my shins, not so much.

 

Blank looks fine--i wouldn't necessarily take a surform or sand any areas unless you still have foam pulling away from the blank. Honestly, I would just take down the stringer with a block plane use some gorilla glue or spray insulation foam on the areas wherein you tore out the foam--reshape and then glass it. No use in over investing. Glassing it should be relatively easy--tons of videos online that can give you a perspective. Hope you have fun!

 

Polyester resin will be cheaper, but stinky and harder to work with. Epoxy will be much more user friendly. Before you glass it, and after you finish shape it, you should get a few colors of paint and do a foam stain... just pour the paint on in drizzles, and squeegee it off in a swirly pattern. It will let you get your art buzz on, and help camouflage/cover the ugly, mottled foam underneath. Two layers of 4oz deck, one layer bottom. Glass on some keels.

 

Plan on a shaped blank that might net out 2" max thickness if you are lucky. That delaminated area is way down deep in the blank. You will see after you start picking at it some. Impossible to glass when the foam is breaking down, it's like glassing dirt-only sticks to the top layer. That's the thing about delamed boards, it's not that the glass comes off the foam it's the foam that breaks down and turns to dust. Could buy some pour foam and rebuild but then why not get a blank? Great stuff won't work very well, it's too soft. That's an old Cream, a Tony Giordano sourced board from Lavalette, NJ. Looks like she had a full life, that's for sure. Cut her in half and make a tombstone or some fine art. Something befitting an old warhorse.

 

You could do whatever... just have fun with it. I've painted boards with all kinds of stuff... even good old Ben Moore house paint. You want an acrylic latex... that's all. Just don't gob it on and you'll get a good bond. I've used straight up paint from a can and rolled it on with a roller. Total ghetto garage job, but the results were amazing. You could even get some opaque pigments and glass it opaque. As for the foam breaking down... yea... the foam is not like new foam, in that it's had years of stress and strain. But if you clean up the surface with a light sanding, you will be able to glass it. You just have to remove any loose material and dust. Beneath the surface is "good" foam.

You're making something out of nothing, dude. Just have fun...