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and last way longer than other EPS or XPS boards
that you have seen!
At least that what he said…???. The foam he used is though, really though( i wont shape it by hand for anything). I do not know about delam…I saw some year-old boards of his ( also some abused demo ones) and they were ok…!!!
I getting out, I do believe this post was a commercial anyhow.
Later
Have a nice surf everybody 
Hi A.A.
It is not a commercial, let me tell you why too…
I tried the board as i mentioned… Bufo boards tried to win me back as a customer after many disappointing experiences…
So, fourth surf or so with the board, in very poor dutch conditions, this is what happened upon exiting a wave…
I was super bummed, but bufo boards b.v. did refund me my money, which i found to be good service…
I will wait till i see a board that i have faith in, maybe yours last longer Arnaud? I think so, since all my bufo boards broke down … except one … in polyester , the Ugly …
Cheers…
See you in the water A.A…
p.s. PM in je inbox A.A.
like dave said
i have a board i could drive a car over and it wouldnt damage it
but do you think its light and flexi/high perf ?
(well its light by pu/pe standards)
but stiff as a dude on viagra
not saying it isnt possible to have both
but after two years of trials im still a way off
hey silly
always good posts from you!
how about letting us know how ‘heavy’ and how ‘stiff’ your board is…
how to measure stiffness anyway?
shall we make a stiffness tester?
AND a flex tester ??
Wouter
hey Wouter
this board i posted in another thread
its 4.7 pounds
it has a airex skin with balsa rails
and heres a link to the flex video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXpvYASzZNQ
the board is quite strong and wont dent
but can still be dinged by a piercing rock or something
im pretty interested with this flex
i noticed some definite magic in marginal conditions this morning
its my most flexible board to date
i cant really measure it
flex return is something im working on, so it flexes,
but snaps back a bit quicker.
so this board is basically a stepping stone to what im trying to achieve
i fell confident i can improve on it
id like to see a surftech flex like that
though i doubt its possible with there construction methods
when i saw bufos marketing with the jumping and abuse
i relized that it would probably be a heavier and stiffer build then what i would term as a high performance board
i could be wrong though
the ones he jumps on are white and appear to be some sort of composite foam skin
the one you had was xps
if you chuck a double 6oz over the top of a composite blank it does make it hell ding proof
but really affects the feel of the board
Hey Silly
Just watched the you-tube action. That looks real flexy indeed. The board in this thread is not as flexy as yours, yet flexy enough to make me like it more in smaller waves. In bigger waves my bottom turns were a real challenge — The TC flexed so much i had to shift weight to my back foot — which was not benificial to my turning radius.
Thus i wonder whether you have used concaves on the deck side of the board? Or did you really thin the board out to make it flex that much? I reckon you use low density glass fibre, thin balsa and little rocker? Do you lay up the glass fibres length and width wise or do you change the fibre directions more to diagonal on your boards? Or dont you want to talk about it in public? my first compsand is coming closer and i am keen on making the board flex. For i have disappointing results with a strong yet unflexy board already [even though it was a handlayup/lamination]
“Cornerstone projects” - advancing for silly!
Hope to see more videos//pics of the board!
Wouter
ive only ridden it once so i dont know how it will go in the juice
it was intended for up to 10ft faces i guess
i was surfing shoulder high walls this morning and although it was onshore and shitty
i had a pretty good surf and some turns felt insane with plenty of speed
i think it could be a another story when its bigger, but i have a few different boards by now
i have a balsa one that is the same rocker and shape that feels completely different( a lot stiffer)
the feeling was of the airex board is that of not being there
it felt like i was surfing on air if that makes any sense
also was surfing way further back then normal without the stalling feeling
i was wondering if flex affected foot position ,so i set my fins back 1/8 inch
the boards is just under twenty wide with 15 inch tail
and 2 1/4 thick
yet doesnt feel wide at all
ive got to agree with benny
thin boards flex
thick domed boards are stiff
add a sandwich skin and you amplify these properties
so you design for flex wrt to the materials nature
if you want a thin shortboard and retain volume
width is the only option
airex appears to be a really flexible material compared to balsa
so with a similar layup inside and out
same core density and skin thickness and density
the airex board is more flexible
but also seems to have less pop
airex is a pvc foam
my skins are 3 to 4mm thick
fibre orientation is normal
layup is by hand
http://www.atlcomposites.com/pdf/C70_prodinfo_a3.pdf
my goal was to get the flex in an easy build
and work at stiffening the sections of the board i want to in a controlled and simple way
hopefully i will get some solid peeling waves next week to really get a feel for it
but its early days yet