I was watching shaper Charlie Wong flaten a bottom of a SUP he was shaping and he pulled out an old longer surfoam. It looked like 4 inches longer that the standard 10" surfoam. It blended the bottom extremely well. I want one! Does anybody know where I can purchase one plus a few extra replacement blades? I did a Google search and came out blank.
Mahalo,
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I have been using them for years. GOOD LUCK FINDING ONE. Replacement blades are even harder to find. You might get lucky at a old auto body shop. Saw one on ebay once a couple years ago, went for over thirty dollars.
Body Shop supply stores have them. Senik PAINT IN COSTA MESA, CA can most likely get you one .
I’ve been carefully protecting mine for years, hope you’re right about replacement blades–I’d love to have a backup or two. Another tool I picked up many years ago but haven’t seen since is a replacement 10" blade made by I don’t remember who, which has round holes and curved blade surfaces. It cuts finely and smoothly and has been invaluable for smoothing laps and for delicate repair work–doesn’t bruise the cloth nearly as much as either the Stanley blade or the Microplane blade.
Mahalo Guys:
I’ll try a few auto body shops like suggested. This is a great tool!
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just nail two blades to piece of wood and you got a 20"
And this won’t clog up or scar the blank with the nail heads???
Does anyone know wher I can get the replacement blade that CAHIvet spoke of with the round holes. I picked up a Craftsman surform type of tool at a garage sale that had that type of blade on it , and I would like a replacement.
If you do it properly the nail heads should be below the cutting surface of the surform blades.
It’s the clogging issue that concerns me–foam and especially wood will clog the blades if they don’t have plenty of space above them.
gotcha, i obviously wasn’t really thinking clearly about the whole problem.
How about attaching two surform frames together somehow, i’m sure some of the tool mod crew could come up with something.
For me, my 10in does a fine job as it is.