Hi Swaylockyans!!
I´m thinking about differents ways to remove weight in my future project, and…
someone has made big drilling in the deck or in the bottom, even in the lines, and later, before glassing, has covered the edges with foam, shape it and then proceed with the glass??? It could be an option in order to remove up to 40% by weight or more, I think.
I’ll try drilling in a structure like a fish skeleton, without reinforcement drill core.
What´s your opinions???
Thanks
Why not just use less dense foam?
Also, you must be talking about reducing the weight of the shaped blank by 40% not the finished product by 40%, because the significant weight is in the skin, not the core. So removing foam won’t make much of a difference.
yea instead of doing all that work, get a 1lb eps blank and glass it real light. unless you get into vaccum bags that is about as light as you can go.
Try a shaping a lower rail into the board. That can reduce the volume by quite a bit.
Gary Young did it and then put wood skins over.
I think the result was delam city and not enough difference in weight.
I can make compsands lighter than I want that are strong.
Lighter core with skins is the way to go.
Are you making a foam board or a hollow wood?
Keep thinking up new ways to make good toys,
You’re talking about chambering the foam. My friend Jim Phillips was doing that in the late 70s-early 80s.
Same as chambering balsa, rough shape it, cut apart on 2 lines halfway from stringer to widepoint. Router
out chambers in all 3 pieces, glue back together, and finish (carefully) shape.
Only saves substantial weight in thick boards, however. What Jim was doing with it back then was amazing.
But Jim’s made a career of always doing amazing stuff, just ask anyone who’s worked with him.
wouldnt that significantly affect/hurt the board’s structural integrity?