blanks from brazil?

has anyone been shaping or heard any pros and cons about the blanks coming from brazil? The ones that ive seen are TECCEL blanks VIKING BLANKS and BENNET/Rhino foam blanks. Any that you reccomend? thanks for the imput!

teccel is probably the best. midget mixes it up in aus and sends the formula over to brazil where they pour it. i know of 3 top shapers here in ca that have got containers of them and are really happy

Teccel- good stuff.

Hope somebody will distribute it (or similar) one day…

a search found this post

i believe they are being distributed in florida. i think in davey florida and also fiberglass florida has them also mike wisnant is using the blanks in jacksonville florida.

Yeah, I knew they had a distributor in Florida but only individual efforts are getting containers of Teccel in CA right now. Rhino is quite good as well. I now that the Teccels we have are both the machine version (thicker/flatter deck, thicker tail) and the hand shape version is closer tolerance. I also like how the blank is optically brightened. Cell structure is tighter than Clark, the foam is more crush resistant while being lighter. I have yet to see any “pour marks” when held up to the light and density appears to be uniform throughout, unlike Clark which got softer as you dug deeper…

…any more-experienced feedback would be appreciated.

they look really white but can yellow fast. could be that the sun is stronger in brazil or the glass&resin, but that is the warning from some friends down there.

If you want to try something better let us know

we will be in San diego to show this blanks

next week,

Well, I live in the hometown of Teccel (Recife-Brazil, do a search later to know our beautiful city) and been riding boards made of it for the last 10 years or so. I can say that’s a very good blank, since Clark Brazil has ended up it’s activities, there were only two blank companies who delivered good stuff: Teccel and Bennet. I’d rather pretty much Teccel, no bubbles, uniform density, light, very strong and reliable, thick stringer. My last board was made of a Teccel blank and you can see it at the resources: http://www.swaylocks.com/resources/detail_page.cgi?ID=1327

Probably our almost equatorian sunlight may be responsible for the yellow “tan” mentioned, but a good UV block in resin, by the way, better glass/resin, as someone said above, can reduce this effect, here in northeastern Brazil. Most of you live in higher latitudes = less sunlight, so I believe it’s won’t be a problem though. As much as I can remember, Midget Farrely ships the blank mix down here from Australia already done, so the job is to put into the molds and expand’em, so it’s the very same chemistry of Midget’s originals in AUS.

…TECCEL is really good foam…chemistry from Australia…

…Bennett foam now is not better than Teccel, cause in the past was the best foam in S America…the Guys f–ed bussisness with the Aussies and now they have the chemistry ffrom Germany…

…TECCEL…the only plug that I really dont like is the 6 5… it have too much thickness from the middle to nose compared with the middle to tail…and have a bad rocker curve about 2 feet up from the tail…

…the 6 is an excellent plug to shape smaller boards (not for children)

…the 7 6 is excellent to shape eggs, etc

…the 6 8 is really good for minieggs…

…the 6 6 and 6 10 both are good for “expanded shortboards” or shortboards for big guys…

…sometimes the only problem that I see is with the stringer…hi percentage crooked

Hi reverb,

any problems with tearing using your planer?

I noticed the blanks stay very white esp. with optical resin. I have since been told

the resins in Brazil are not always the best so the yellowing may come from that rather

than the foam. Our resin is super clear and UV stable. Optical brighteners can be ordered

backed-off to about 40 percent fromt the resin vendors to balance the OB in the blanks.

Thanks,

george

Has anybody found out any info on the teccel 6’4L blank, how is the rocker. I was told that the teccel blanks were very close to what clark foam had>

…Hello, Plus one Shaper;

…the tearing problem is usual like with a Clark foam superblue…

…“medium” speed work is better than faster ones…

…blue tip color: kind of between supergreen and superblue

…orange color: + /- like superblue…about 200grs less weight than the blue colored ones (teccel)

…green color: pro

…yes the blanks stay white, polar white, but I use resin with UV stabilizer and “speed finish” for plastics, with UV stabilizer too…the Brazilian guys normally use a resin without UVstabilizer…

…with the only blanks that I hadnt been any tearing problem is with Argentinian ones (ELOVA FOAM) , may be cause is MDI foam…You can work SUPER fast with the planer, but you need to shape almost 100 % with the planer cause the sandpaper have a tendency to slip over the foam…

…the foam also is not very good, have only few plugs, and one density, kind of heavy density…

high regards

Fernando

The Teccels are really good blanks. The company I work for got a container of them about a month ago and the second container this past week. From an airbrushers point of view, this is the best foam that I’ve ever painted on. The cell stucture is real tight and uniform. The foam is very white and the wood and the gluing has been consistently good. The tape sticks good and they paint real clean. From a scale of 1 to 10 with Clarks being an 8, I’d say Teccels are a 10.