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Summary: When sanding a surfboard, you can scratch it. Learn what sandpaper to use to remove scratches from surfboards in this free surfing video about how to repair a surfboard.
Sean O’Leary resides in Redondo Beach, California. Sean has been fixing damaged surfboards for more than fifteen years, and he is extremely passionate about his craft. He has been...read more
"So here we have the other board that's a gloss and polish. We've had this out here for, you know, about 45 minutes to an hour. The resins really hard and you can barely put your nail in it. That's a good test, just run your fingernail in it and if it doesn't show anything that's pretty much ready to go. So we'll take that out and we're going to polish this and finish this board as well. So now we have it on the sanding rack. What we're going to do is grab some 220 paper and we're going to start off this and ending with the 220. We'll take the edge down with the 220 and then we'll go ahead and run it back and forth after that with the 320 and get those scratches out. Take off the 220, I got some 320 over here. This is just a nice wet sandpaper, take out the 220 scratches and then that way when we buff out that resin it's just going to get really shiny, you're not going to see any scratches in it. That's what happens when there's no glue on it. Just apply some more glue, get that paper stuck back on there, just like that. Alright, it should be ready, let's go."
eHow Article: Removing Repaired Surfboard Scratches