My question is: How in the world are you getting decent shapes, when you haven’t even perfected shaping the Clark foam blank.(or maybe you have) . I mean something that is 95% pro quality. Clark gives you all the profiles, and it’s still easy to screw up. I’d like to see some close up pictures of the EPS’ers
Show me your boards!!
Bert & Greg’s boards don’t count.
-Jay
Jay,
I have not hot wire cut yet; I did the HD glue up. used blocks to approximate a rocker out of the clark catalog.
But having seen it done, if you hot wire the blank with a rocker template you have zero skinning, zero thickness adjustment and zero rocker adjustment. Sure there is a little more work inshaping/foiling the rails as you start with a totally flat deck and bottom, but it seems to me that no skinning, no thickness adjustment and no rocker adjustment means your starting with closer to finish product and it should actually be easier than using a clark blank. As for rocker templates, I’m pulling mine from the clark catalog and/or profile photos off the web as a starting point. Adjusting to desire thickness on paper and then will be cutting to finished rocker/thickness.
As for showing boards and not counting Bert and Greg’s what about MrJ, Sab, mecrafty, markvy, benny1… and many more. Looks like they are getting boards as good or better than what you can get off the rack + lighter and more durable.
I’ll post mine when I finally get around to it also. I’m on the EPS train, just the slow train because of the rest of life too.
ps. thanks again for your glassing seminar at Keiths a year and a half ago. You guys gave me the confidence to jump in. On the final hot coat of another board and thought about what you and kieth showed/did as I went through it again.