green blanks in europe?

General Discussion
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hi everybody, i’ll get a few liter natural resin and would like to make 2 boards with as much as possible natural material, but can’t find a “green blank”. homeblown europe doesn’t have anything… yet. is there anybody out there?

salu2

uzzi

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http://ixps-foam.com/

but the site “chupa”

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Green resin? wich resin is it? If you want it green, build a HWS with hemp or flax fibres.

I like to know wich resin is green, never found one.

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Hi uzzi

You could try the homeblown factory in UK - www.homeblown.co.uk

they may be able to ship out the homeblown factory out there for a reasonable price.

Cheers

Rich

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hi hans, my info is that it is sugar can based but i dont know exactly. i get it for tests.

the intent is to build something that is similar to traditional boardbuilding HW is to complicated for the proyects i have in mind.

salu2

uzzi

 

thanks for the info i’ll try homeblown uk we’ll see

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Seabase also have announced a good quality ‘green foam’ - here is the link:  http://www.seabase.eu/docs/Green_Foam/

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hi hans, here some more about the resin.

**Furfural is the base chemical of today’s furan chemistry. It can be produced from virtually any agricultural waste material by acid catalysed digestion of hemicelluloses. This process can be considered as one of the oldest forms of chemical biorefinery.**

 

i also talked to seabase. nothing down here in portugal yet. but i’ll get 2 homeblown blanks at the end of the month.

salu2

uzzi


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Ok nice. They do not sell it yet?

 

Watch out with it! it is still toxic

 

Is it some sort of epoxy resin they make with it?

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sorry took quite long but it is finished now

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the board is laminated with furolite and sanding coated with epoxy. the resin is at this point not usefull for handlamination. i ended up with lots of pin holes in the lam but if you leave more resin it will build up under the lam and be very brittle. vacuum could be ok. with the dark brown color it gets very hot when exposed to sun light and the sanding coat cracked on the tests. 

however the resin has the consistecy of honey and smells a bit like tar.

i will hand the board around you can follow it here for the moment maybe later on a Blog and see how it holds up.

 

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Green-Surfboard/114356095274645

 

salu2

uzzi