How to repair chip in topsheet?

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Somehow, one of my boards has a very small chip taken out of the nose. The wood is exposed so I'm worried about water getting in there and delaminating the board. What's the best way to repair this? I'm thinking, sand down the rough edges, put on a glob of two-part epoxy, wait for it to set and then sand it smooth.

Am I on the right track?

[orser506]

Hi,
You can get some pigment to mix with you epoxy if you want . Check out http://www.tognar.com/ They have everything you could ever need to work on anything that slides on snow

[Steve Dold]

Plastic stores usually have small jars of pigment too, I think it's used for fiberglass and general epoxy use. They'll have the epoxy too. Tap Plastics is the one we have in the Sacramento area.

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Based on recommendations from a friend who used to build sailboards, I used 24 hour epoxy. The key was to use heat to help draw the epoxy into the wood fibres and aid the setting. The 5 minute stuff sets too fast, apparently.

It turned out very nicely. Unfortunately, I did not add pigment. If I had, the work would've been invisible.

[Jim]

No worries about the pigment. All pigments react differentently to repair materials and it would have taken a half dozen test batches to match, if, it could match your boards color.