Get a surfboard sized ice cube, shape it, glass it really fast and then drain the water?
I think Cody Maverick was doing some of that in Shiverpool.
Just kidding.
I've heard talk of doing basically the same thing with a stringerless foam blank and solvent.
But never heard of anyone actually doing it.
Have to be a heck of a glass job!
In the “show us your wood” thread there was the guy who did a hollow wood surfboard by using multiple layers of narrow strips of veneer, laid cold over a foam blank. He did it in two halves, pulled the foam blank out and rejoined the two halves.
I could see how a multi-layer veneer buildout could work for rails on a hollow wood board. You could use the 1/64th bamboo veneer that Gary Young uses and rip it into narrower strips. That stuff would probably wrap a rail real easily, without a lot of wood torture.
Start the first layer running the strips perpendicular to the rail and then add two more strips at opposing 30* angles to the rail, wrapping at the diagonal. Cut the rails off the foam blank, remove the foam core and attach the hollow rails to your frame, possibly to parabolic stringers. Finish your deck as usual. I guess you could also finish the rails with a facing of some sort. I gotta wonder how many of those layers - laid in opposing directions - it would take to get a rail that could hold up.
Come to think of it, Huck could build one of his solid wood rail frames and use that as a plug for an all-veneer rail buildout
neat idea, lost ice method. On using foam and then melting out a toxic puddle or cutting off the rails and scooping out the foam just so you can say its hollow, that’s not too cool, might as well leave it in there at that point
Paul,
How about some of that starch based foam used for packing peanuts?
Breaks down with water, feels like a cross between PU and rice cakes,
supposedly edible, uniform texture, dissolves in water?
possible downsides may be that it may soak a lot of resin, might go into solution in the resin, or work really nicely.
Guess I might have to try and source a surfboard sized chunk.
Pete
Get an EPS blank, glass it fast and then melt out the insides with acetone. Then install Christmas lights inside … oh yes, it has been done.
Fiberglass products are commonly produced over a form, or plug - tubs, car parts, etc. I'm sure the same could be done with a surfboard, to produce a hollow board. Two halves, glassed together. I don't think fiberglassing ice would work very well, hahaha.
You’d need less catalyst if you used wax instead of ice?
A balloon formed like a board.Glass it…deflate it…pull it out. or if you make the ice cube out of dry ice it will last longer…or if. Ah never mind.
Well I made a board out of sponge cake once with three sugar wafer stringers. Glassed it if brown chocolate. Took it out to test it at Hanalei but we ended up eating it on the beach at Black Pot ! Never even got it in the water !!
Works better if you put some glycol in the ice. Improves melt rate and smooths cutting.
Problem is moving in all those winter woolies in the subzero shaping room.
…and I just can’t figure how to get the epoxy to go off at -10 degrees C!
what about that pie-crete stuff…