Hi Karl,

Longboarding is the process of using a long (2-3 foot), narrow (3-4" wide), thin (1/4-1/2") board, with handles on top, with sandpaper cemented on the bottom. This board works just like a road grader on a bumpy road-it smooths waves, ridges, bumps, etc in a surface you desire to be flat. It's used like a sanding block, usually along the "long" direction of the surface you are working on.

One of the great treats in life is to use a longboard overhead on a big, roughtly laminated fiberglass boat in a tin shed in the summer. Another treat is to use one to wetsand the bottom paint of a big boat outside in the winter!

Great for the biceps-terrible for the back.

Pete