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Summary: How to blend the rails of a surfboard is discussed in this free video series that will show you how to maintain and care for your surfboard to ensure that it's always ocean ready.
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toke Abe Toke grew up surfing the Central Coast of California. He has had the chance to surf world class waves, with world class surfers, and is now a pro surfer ... read more
ABE TOKE: Hi. Welcome to Expert Village, my name is Abe Toke. I'm going to take you through step by step to shape yourself a complete surfboard. We've got a sanding pad here. It's really lightweight and flimsy, and a piece of sanding screen that probably was used for a dry wall. It's something to get yourself at the hardware store, but it helps blend these rails out really easy. Kinda hold it along. The ridge lines, again, it's mainly what I'm after. In the lighting, you kinda see the old marks, so I'm trying to get rid of those. Maybe do two or three along the top. With this bottom edge, do the same thing. You could start either side. It doesn't really matter, whatever you prefer. Definitely, you don't want to touch this tail part of the board. I want to keep that edge nice and square and hard. When I get to this tail part of the board, I kinda just straighten it off.