September 30, 2005
Build your own Surfboard!
Surfer Steve has an excellent set of instructions describing how to build your own Surfboard.
Everything is documented from shaping, glassing, sanding, and even artwork.
Looking forward to giving this a try when I get back to Australia next time, and giving it a try at one of my old surf spots (such as Browns Beach, a really casual beach break near my home town of Mount Gambier, above)!
Posted by crafterm at September 30, 2005 01:56 PM | TrackBack
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Great link. I did some searching and it seems to me that you could use the blue Dow building insulation [which is available at any large hardware store in the US, where I live] to make your own blank, based on the page at the bottom which gives densities around the 2 lbs/ft^3 Surfer Steve recomends. Though you'd might have to glue several pieces together to get enough thickness, and put a stringer in the middle. I want to say a one part polyurethane glue whould be good [cheap, strong, waterproof] to glue pieces of foam together but I have no idea if it would react with the epoxy. I haven't priced it so I don't know if it makes economic sense, but might be a good option if you are having trouble finding foam.
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