purposely delaming a board

just wondering if anyone has ever done this? just to have a blank deck...if so how did yall do it? and can you also do the bottom?

(Message edited by praisinplaya on May 13, 2006)

do you mean pulling off the glass to get just the foam??

You should be able to use a heat gun to get it to start peeling. Maybe even try a hair dryer at first.

just paint it and then it will be blank

The only way to get an actual "blank" deck (white/colorless) is to paint it... the graphics are permanently printed onto the top and bottom sheets, and underneath them is just fiberglass. The best you're gonna get it just painting it.

Kind of off topic but the layer with the graphics is pealing off of my fish. ANy way to fix that?

I have an old LF Squirt that the graphics came off of. Plain white top

Lightly sand the top and hit it with some primer. Then you can spray paint it and make it nice and ghetto without worrying about paint chips in your boat.

I've peeled the topsheet off of a substance. Its basically just a big plastic sticker. Once its off you've got a perfectly white, plain top.

Here's a few shots of a board that the graphics peeled off.

so is it the consensus that lf boards will peal pretty easy and have a white top deck? what about others? cwb, gator, hype?

I think the board in the photo is a cwb, so they must come off. I know older LF boards do

haha, Walt, I have a litmus that the graphics peeled off of as well.