Bert Burger was vac-bagging wood veneer skin surfboards as early as 1994.
ok glenn…
im going to tell you what i was doing 10 years ago …
its more than satisfactory …
plus it will be more within your reach to achieve without as much infrastructure…if you end up building them , you may even notice room for improvement…
while on one hand not wanting to divulge to much information ,with what i do now , i feel i can safely put you in the ball park without feeling threatened …
when i checked out the hawaii balsa boards site … i noticed his methods were very similar to …
Sways member Bill Barnfield?
For those of you not familiar with Barnfield. In the 70s and 80s he was one of the premeire shapers in the world. He is credited with being the first to take accurate rocker measurements. As i understand it everyone who was anyone in pro surfing at that time who surfed the north shore had a Barnfield in their quiver. Many here on the north shore blame him for turning in all the backyard factories when he built the first “legit” factory here. Anyway he talks aout this in the article i have posted…
Et.al…
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