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Okay, so I recently acquired a pop-out board…’Designed in the U.S. Made in Thailand’.  A 6′3″ Anacapa designed by Al Merrick and spit out of some machine in Thailand.  Anyway, surf has been small and crappy…and I was bored.  Sooooo, I decided to spice it up a little with some stencils, spray paint, and an always over-priced traction pad.  First, I made the stencils out of the plastic covers found on a notebook and cut them out with an exacto knife.  Traced the traction pad and cut the shape out of some cardboard, I used some double sided tape to stick my ‘cardboard’ pad to the board.  I didn’t want to paint the fiberglass where the traction pad was going, because I didn’t want the paint to interfere with the traction pad glue when I stuck it on.  Then, I cleaned the board with denatured alcohol, sanded with 400 grit sand paper, and cleaned again with alcohol.  Next, I cut some masking tape into thin strips to make some lines across the board….sprayed the first yellow coat over the masking tape, star stencil, and cardboard pad.  Let that dry and then sprayed the black over the skull stencils and, finally, sprayed a UV resistant clear acrylic coat over all of it.  And presto….kinda like it.  Hopefully, it doesn’t fade or peel, only time will tell.  I’ll try to update in a few months if it holds or not.

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