Painting a Surfboard (Yellow Firewire Dominator 2): Beginner tutorial & painful lessons learned.

First time painting a surfboard and thought I'd do a tutorial based on the things I'd learned from doing it. Hopefully you can learn from my mistakes.
Most important part I learned, if you decide to go this route of spray paint your surfboard, was the painting was the hardest part. Especially since the spray paint could act so finicky, with the coating and timings. If I were to re-do it, I would definitely sprayed a lot lighter coats, and waited few minutes between each coats, like I did when I sprayed the deck of the board, I also wouldn't have sprayed the matte clear coat as heavy or done one less coat (3 instead of 4 to compensate).
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Items used to spray paint surfboard:
Pickle Wax Remover:
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220 grit sandpaper for the paint to adhere:
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Isopropyl alcohol for cleaning:
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Microfiber cloths (wiping after cleaning and if you need to wet sand):
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Green frog painter's tape (I'd recommend going with the wider one that I used, linked here):
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Japanese safety blades for cutting tape by fin boxes:
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Respirator Mask for spray painting (so you don't kill your lungs):
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Top color spray paint:
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Bottom & Rail color spray paint:
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Matte Finish to protect paint:
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Table I used to spray paint on:
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600 grit sandpaper for wet sanding (if you make mistakes like me lol):
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0:00 Wax Removal
0:16 Sanding for paint and wipe down
0:37 Fin box tape prep
1:06 Taping deck with newspaper
1:29 Chunky paints, the beginning
1:40 Disaster paint
2:02 Some repairs & removing tape
2:17 Leash plug and rail taping
2:28 Deck painting
2:51 Removing final tape
3:03 Final Result

[@Spinafex-u2q]

To stop colour bleeding under the tape, spray clear on the tape edges. Let it dry then spray colour.

[@Namidan-The-Surf-and-Sea]

that sounds like some good advice for next time. thanks!

[@Nayda44]

use oil based paints no water based, water based are only used on the foam directly!

[@Namidan-The-Surf-and-Sea]

thanks for the advice and for watching senpai 👍

[@77pebble]

Next time, instead of going across only as in rail to rail when spraying. Go length ways also = no streaks

[@Namidan-The-Surf-and-Sea]

yeah definitely should've done that on a few of the coats. Thanks for the tips and for watching 🤙