Hey I’m a newbie Shaper from Irvine, CA. I’ve only shaped 2 boards and both times I’ve had a business glass it for me, but it’s costing me too much mula. I’m just looking for a low profile hole in the wall places or somone that will do glass jobs for cheap. I’m not some pro shaper that’s gonna be pumping out 10 boards at a time. Mahalo. - Henry 
there’s no such thing as a cheap glass job!!! if you want cheap ,you have to do it your self…Ed Townes /E.T.RESIN WORKS 321-868-2966
I would, but I don’t have a good place to do it at. And it seems like too much trouble dealing with all those chemicals. Besides I lost my sense of smell in an accident so I wouldn’t be able to tell if i’m inhaling all the toxic fumes.
Howzit SurfThatSwell, With the price of materials going up,up,up cheap glassjobs are not so cheap any more. Acetone has gone up about 30% and Glass just went up about a $1 a yard and resin is also onthe rise.Also tape sandpaper,etc,etc getting more expensive. As far as your sense of smell goes just wear a respirator when ever working with chemicals. I’m about to raise my prices about 5-10 % for glassing.Aloha,Kokua
Ya I know, both the places I’ve gone to have marked up prices by 25 bucks. That’s why I’m trying to get someone that just works out of the garage.
It Dosen’t matter who you find to do the job. The materials cost what they cost, and they go up everytime we glassers have to get more supplies! A cheap glass job would have to mean cheap non-standard materials, old or odd brand cloth, probably an inexperienced glasser…or a rich one. There is not alot of overhead in surfboard manufacturing as it is. Why waste your time and money to shape a nice board, put your time into it and get a crappy glass job just to save a few dollars? It’s not worth it. Pay your dues, Get a nice board. Just my opinion but you know what they say about those!
hey well i need an eps board glassed in the next 2 weeks…whats the turn-around ususally take??? and who can do it in the huntington/newport area???
If you’re looking for cheap then you should be giving the glasser lots of business then. I think the last thing a glasser wants to do is cut a “bro” deal with some hobbyist shaper who will bring in a few boards a year at best.
surfthatswell, you can be that cheap glasser . . . maybe if you know someone that does high volume shaping . … you can sneak your board with theirs and pay them the volume discount for your board…
Do you know if the materials are going up because the suppliers’ costs have likewise increased, or do you think that some of that is opportunism in the wake of the PU blank situation of the past 6 months?
-Samiam
Have you seen the price of oil,workerscomp and other related costs. Resin has been rising for the last year and half, way before Clarks decision!
Jeff
I’ve never been in FoamEZ in Westminster, CA,
but it would seem to me that if they have a bulletin board
that would be the place.
Certainly, there must be some garage shaper who would figure its just as easy to
glass two boards at once as it is one, especially if your getting dough for it.
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If you got room to shape, you got room to glass. If it’s the smell, then use Epoxy. Shaping a board make one hell of a bigger mess than glassing. If your worried about the sanding mess. Go sand it at night in front of your neighbors house. If you live in an apartment, go in the community laundry room and sand there, get glass fiber in the dryers. (Hey scratchy, now thats what I call a good time)
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If your not in a big hurry, then you should wait until some swaylocker is ready to glass a board and tag along. Keith Melville has swaylock get togethers every few months. I’m more than willing to show you how too glass a board, but I’ve been out of comission in the shaping / glassing thing, and have been doing home projects. But I’m just about ready to come out of hibernation next month.
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Garage guys aren’t in it for the money, so there is no real incentive to glass someone’s board. Materials to glass a board are now up over $130, fins & plugs? $40, sandpaper, brushes, paint, tape etc? lets, just round up to $200. Now throw in $75-$100 to pay the guy for a few days work. Presto, $300 for a glass job.
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spend the $350 for the pro glass and be done with it. But why shape a board if your not going to glass it yourself? Where’s the love in that?
The days of the $150.00 glass job are over. Best to get the Cajones, and do it yourself. It’s a great learning experience, and once you’ve done it you’ll be stoked about making a board from start to finish.
-Jay
what did you pay for gas this week? what did you pay for gas last month? what did you pay for gas 6 months ago? last summer? resin is tied to the commodity market . are these guys/ladies supposed to eat the cost increases so everybody can get a cheap glass job. I think not. either learn how to do it yourself or pay what it cost for the glasser to do the job. jmho
What is the current price range for glass jobs for a 6’something thruster for an individual with one board?
in the ventura area the starting price is 175 for a sanded finish with fins
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in the ventura area the starting price is 175 for a sanded finish with fins
Cool!
Was considering a pro glass job soon and was looking at internet price lists for this
which you cant be sure how out of date it is considering what the industry has been
through with Clark and Oil prices. The Clark debacle should increase competition (for glassers) and lower
prices but the Oil prices increase it. It would seem that things are substantially the same.
I have learned there are about 4 glassers located in the same complex as FoamEZ in Westminster,CA.
So I know when I go there asking for a quote, I know between the 4 competing in the same
area that the prices will be competitive outside of the the occasional one who ‘competes on quality and not price’.
So in effect, I should find a very good lowest bid for the region(LA/Orange County) in that one area.
On a side note:
Another poster was alluding to $350 which I thought was disinformation along with
the other assumptions in his post.
A favorite strategy of mine, when money used to be tighter, was to use a bulletin board(talk to a HS auto mech. teacher, etc) to get a ‘Garage or GearHead’
to do cheap work has worked well with GearHeads when I wanted a competent late teens,early 20 something
to replace a transmission on a daily driver, etc on the cheap for me(I bought the tranny, they did the work). Usually they dont mind the work at that age, and are looking
to make money and are in a good way ‘dirty,greasy and competent’. Dont see why you cant find someone in the same
age range last year in H.S. or a couple of years removed to glass a board while they’re doing their own. …The economics
of scale in glassing. It takes little precious time extra to do 2 versus only doing 1, and if you target the right age/experience group it can be cheap.
I know when I was in my garage board making phase, this would have been attractive to me at one time, especially since I was making money
making a few boards on the side.