Board Care Tips

Who cares, just ride it.  I think new looking boards look dumb, it means you haven't ridden it hard enough.

I'm sure light scratches will buff out, but I don;t know about deeper ones, maybe cover them up with stickers.

Dude, wear the scratches loud and proud.  Especially cool to show all your friends in AL ... 

it is a quality of the edge thing ... you find that less on higher end boards.  someone here smarter than me can explain why ... 

Originally posted by Dankbud42o i just started boardin and day after i go to the mt theres rust/orange spots on the metal edge of the board. is that supposed to happen every time or do i gotta wipe it dry every time im done using it? and why use metal that rusts and not stainless?

You gotta wipe it down everytime after you ride because the water dries up on the metal and will rust. If you have taken a chemistry class, you should know this. So make sure just wipe it down and if you put it in a bag, just place the board out to dry for a day or so.

Originally posted by tidwech Does anyone have any tips or products for cleaning and polishing the top-coat on a board? I've picked up a few scuffs over the last two seasons and I was wondering if there was a way to buff them out.

You could buff them out , but they'll get replaced the next time you ride. It's inevitable to get scratches so don't worry too much about them. I once took a brand new board out on it's maiden voyage, didn't have anyone run into me, and didn't get even remotely close to anyone in the lift line, and still had a ton of scratches after only half the day.

i like to look at them as "battle scars" 

I hate the scratches that are not caused by you, though.
By the idiot behind you in the lift line who doesn't know how to keep his bloody skies to himself

just hot wax and go snowboard.

scratches??? what scratches... looks under stickers 

On my Capita, stairmaster, rails actually rub off and leave a dirt mark thingy wingy. it's weirdo. it doesn't effect my riding or the base or anything, but ya, it like makes a dirt mark on the base. It looks like poopy poop. But it's not.

i was bombin this run and a guy came outa now where and we hit eachother at like 150mph (not really. it was more like 45) yeah i screwed up both of our boards. it sucked

I say scratch the hell out of it, then get another deck with prettier and shinier top sheet...

I do the same with girlfriends....

I like scratches on my boards...as long as they're from riding (not lift lines or dropping it at home) and they don't affect performance or aren't too gnarly.  Scratches give the board a cool, well used look (and you don't feel you have to baby it as much)

burton puts fake scratches on the dom, which kinda looks cool...but isn't, only because it's fake

What about the edges and tips?

second day I rode my lib tech trs btx, a skier rode RIGHT over the front, left huge scratched tearin up the top sheet pretty bad....just went right over it, I wasn't moving, didn't cut him off at all, just went right over it...shtooking dick!!

 

Originally posted by Duneluder the worst thing is they rarely apologize they just kinda try and make it look like it was your fault

grrr makes me so mad