Tomorrow I will surf one of his boards, and am keen on letting you guys know how it goes in sizey shit waves. I feel it is somewhat of a European counterpart to Firewire surfboards, but have no idea as far as ´the feeling´ goes.
It will be a Travellers Complex / TC, can´t wait till the early morning…
It´s a second hand board, with dings, that can be taken out with heat, like I heard 70 degrees celsius, or Celsius = 5/9 * (Fahrenheit - 32), so 70Celsius = 59 * (F-32) ° , or¨… 9/570 + 32 = 159,6 Fahrentheit
It has FCS fins, H2 fins, I likey.
Very light.
All specs tomorrow and later,
Ciao Significante golfhoogte Europlatform 3
De significante golfhoogte op 18 januari, 23:40 uur is 431 cm
N.B. Bovenstaande gegevens worden ca. 6 keer per uur ververst.
The auto industry would be a good source of new foams, however that foam looks suspiciously like Dow blue xps - why would anybody develop a foam for the surf industry that wasn’t white? The early Bufos that we saw video of people tampoleneing on looked like sandwich construction - these ones look like xps without the cnc machine marks smoothed off with glass rope “power rods” in them. I don’t think there is a whole lot going on with these that we don’t already know about. The shapes look nice though.
If I remember correctly the old bufo board videos looked like the boards was painted IMHO.
I sincerly doubt that volkswagen have developed surfboard foam by purpose. I’d rather think they have tried to make an impact resistant foam for some other application that is insidently suitable to build surfboards from.
I think that one of the bufo guys works with the foam crew and thats how they got there, I also think the foam is white and the resin is tinted blue. The deeper shots of fiber are a deeper blue…
Recently saw a pile of them at a demo. there were some bubbles trapped in the resin on a few of them, otherwise they are very professional looking finishes, they claim to be hand made but looking at the patterns in the foam I think it is milled by a shaping machine.
they claim to be hand made but looking at the patterns in the foam I think it is milled by a shaping machine
The more I think about it and from what I’ve heard about bluedow foam… It makes sense that you would leave it machine roughed out and just glass it that way to the open surface ridges.
Yep , the foam is a Dow blue xps, also used here in holland for roof isolation. The epoxy is standard. The blank is blue. The line ya see come from the shaping machine ( 5 axis from the WW guys). The spots are fibers ( real 3d glass-in).
The all concept work, and last way longer than other EPS or XPS boards. In fact the material are well known, but the way Buff put it together and the engineering behind the concept is the key to this product.
500 % better than H2 from surf-tech, but not yet close enough from PO/PU…
due to the limited available shapes, and the price…
