are there any balsa or wooden retro fishes or shortboards out there? who shapes them? how much do they cost? how do they ride? are there any pictures out there?
http://www.hollowsurfboards.com/surfboards.htm
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Cost…$1,500…
Ask someone who’s ridden one…They’re lurking here…Darren…???..
that board is absolutely amazing but why 1,500? how does it perform and is it strong?
Have a really good look at Paul’s site, think about the time it takes to build one, look at the quality of the materials and the finished product, then offer him $1700 for one, it’s still cheap.
(The extra $200 is for asking silly questions)
Play safe
Hicksy
i dont think that was a silly questions, i know it would take a long time i was just wondering how he calculated the cost and how much the materials would cost, because of how i heard of a site that sells balsa blanks for under 200!
is the board stronger than a conventional foam surfboard and how does it perform?
im sorry if u thought that it was a silly question
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i was just wondering how he calculated the cost and how much the materials would cost…
Cost = materials + labor…
Materials cost about $40 - $50 per foot of length…
Labor is about 40 hours to get it to the point of being ready to fiberglass…
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is the board stronger than a conventional foam surfboard …
Strength:
My hollows are in a different realm when compared to “foam” surfboards…
The interior surfaces are carbon fiber / epoxy covered thin wood and plywood…
Thin wood for lightness…
The rails are cf / epoxy covered before the wood / cork “finished” rails are put on…
Kind of like having rails reinforced like stringers…
The deck / bottom surfaces are 1/8" wood, again thin for lightness and nearly impossible to dent…
The clear glassing is all s-cloth / epoxy…
Indestructable, no…
But way beyond what foam can stand up to…
Way beyond…
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… how does it perform?
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[ 3]Before the fish leaves the swaylock circle i want to to thank Paul for sharing it. Paul i surfed better than i ever have on a board i never thought i could ride. Every wave i got on it in Big Sur took me deeper, steeper and faster than i imagined i could ever go. I got a lifetime wave on it during one of the choppy late afternoon sessions. That fish rode really well not to mention it was a first class head turner. Chase also had a blast riding it at Sand Dollar. Thanks again. Darren [/]
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You want more on the “How It Performs”, take some time and go through my website…
It’s there…
I do a lot of wood boards and under $200?, you get what you pay for
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are there any balsa or wooden retro fishes or shortboards out there?
YerbaBuena,
I posted a picture of a balsa fish in the “Resources section” a few months back:
<img src="http://www.swaylocks.com/resources/uploads/8/small-508-840235balsa2.jpg" alt="" class="bb-image" />
The picture is not great-I will never master posting pics! In any case, the board is chambered with curved stringers. The joints are half laps. Much of the wood was scrap from another balsa so there were several scarf joints as well. The major difficulty was was fitting the half laps-used 1/4", should have used 1/8". Jim’s posts regarding chambering and curved stringers were invaluable (see “Archives”). Patrick
Patrick - Beautiful Board!!
Redwood “blanks” on craigslist in San Francisco. Yerba Buena, if you chambered it out, maybe this is a way to get started…
there are many grades of balsa, cheap dosn’t mean good. you should put some time in searching the archives many of your questions will be answered and you probably have some new ones as well…
ps. i shaped my first balsa from a $400 balsa blank and it took close to 50 hours to complete glass and all. figure $150 for glassing materials etc and your at $950 (if sold for $1500). thats $19 an hour. i build cabinets and such for well over $60 an hr. I think his clients are lucky he wants to build boards like that for basically no money… paul is giving those boards away…
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are there any balsa or wooden retro fishes or shortboards out there? who shapes them? how much do they cost? how do they ride? are there any pictures out there?
We were poking around out back in the junk pile and found what appears to be a pretty good Chinese copy of the P.J. hollow / wood strip laminated fish. How do they do it?
We put it into our new Bisect shop for testing. Our patents are still pending.
What is going on…???..
don’t worry, everything is fine. You’re cut in the deal.
The horror… the horror… LOL
Skip what are you doing your freekin Paul out!!
now I suppose you want a cut too?
where did you find that?
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where did you find that?
On the internet 
where did u find those boards?