Hi everybody, I recently decided to make my own surfboard and it all went great until glassing. It was full of air bubbles and would have broken in the water. I took it into a glassing shop and they said that it was because I put the paint on too thick so it lost its bond and unstuck. He recommended that I take off the fiberglass and reshape it. I did this, and after I took off the fiberglass, there was still some paint left. I got a random orbital sander from Amazon and I started to sand the board to get the paint layer off. It wasn't coming off when I sanded from the top, so I used the sides to dig in a little bit into the foam so that I could get under the paint and take it off that way. That all went well until one spot near the tail, where I dug into it too much. I tried to thin the rest out near the tail, and I'm worried that it will be too thin and crack in the water. It is literally bending a little bit when I put pressure on it right now. I am going to get it professionally glassed, and I know that the fiberglass will add strength too it, but I am still worried that it won't work. I want to keep going, but if it's going to break when I take it out, I'd rather not waste my time. I was also wondering if I should thin out the rest of the board to make it even. It measures a tiny bit more than half an inch at the thinnest point near the tail and it measures around 2 inches at it's thickest point. I attached some images for reference. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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