adding more stringers to blanks

[thrailkill]

@$1

As to glue lines…boards have had glue lines instead of stringers going back to the 60s…many boards were built with just a glue line or colored paper glued in where a stringer would normally go. The practice was pretty much a variation on stringerless boards. Other 60s longboards had a wood stringer with glue offsets. Some had high density foam and glue lines with no wood. The variations were many.

     Yep, a common practice, as stated above.

Bill

[shapaholic2011]

@$1

Hot Wire for EPS. Skill saw for poly. Got it?..If you Skill your EPS the saw will bind big time.

US Blanks can be ordered with colored glue on your stringer at no extra cost. Plywood and color almost free. 1/4 inch dark Cedar with black glue $14 extra. I understand the “do it yourself” thing …But…

maybe you guys need to talk to US Blanks before you go cutting up blanks…because a few bucks to add some glue or stringers compared to a shop full of clamps …well…you decide…

Ray

 

I’m with you on this if what you say is true. A few extra bucks is smart when you think about the possibility of ending up damaging your blank, health, and wasting your time… And if you ain’t surfing triple overhead you don’t need strength. I’m beginning to think they ( the guys doin triple stringers ) are just liking the look, or liking a challenge? But man, why waste your time! Just request the supplier to order you the blank. +2 Stingray

[hippo008]

Ive called around some building companys and manufacturing companys and they all had pretty huge blocks of EPS that i cold buy by the pound. Never was too interested in EPS, ive only been around it a few times. Ill give it some thought. Who knows, maybe ill like Epoxy glassing better

 

Angus-

[Huck]

@$1

Ive called around some building companys and manufacturing companys and they all had pretty huge blocks of EPS that i cold buy by the pound. Never was too interested in EPS, ive only been around it a few times. Ill give it some thought. Who knows, maybe ill like Epoxy glassing better

Angus-

I like epoxy glassing better, its all I use anymore.  Haven’t tried EPS yet, but its on my bucket list.

[jrandy]

Ray, thanks for your thoughts, search tips, and the history lesson about the Clark-o-pocalypse. Your 7’-3" build thread is amazing.  You know what works and you do it well.

In my case, EPS foam and incidentals cost 1/3 or less of getting something premade shipped to me. There are no shops here, and the extra time spent cutting rocker and gluing stinger is leisure, so it works for me.

Angus, if you have an in at the shops and can get blanks at costs…I see no reason to be worried.