Home Depot Fish Project

I just saw a sick post on a fish this guy made out of home depot insulation! Check it out at: http://www.dailystoke.com/author/garage-shaper/. It looks like a cheap and fun experiment. I wonder how well it surfs?

thanks again Benny

http://www.swaylocks.com/forum/gforum.cgi?do=post_view_flat;post=173664;page=1;mh=-1;guest=21111801;sb=post_latest_reply;so=ASC

and “Project Frog”

http://www.swaylocks.com/forum/gforum.cgi?do=post_view_flat;post=275731;page=1;mh=-1;;sb=post_latest_reply;so=ASC

they surf good for being non-pro made boards.

I think Jarrod/Taylor/Benny1 were the early adopters of the elmers glued flat sheet school and were our inspirations

my brother and I took it to different level with the vacuum bagging and wood skin thing.

you don’t need to vacuum bag as everyone just used weights of all kinds in the beginnning

I like the idea of buying all your neccessary supplies 10 minutes from my house at home depot/lowes(foam/wood) and ace(UV/epoxy resin) hardware.

the junky foam is usually 1lb or less so you can go with thicker skins like the woven bamboo wall covering or 1/8" resawn and planed cedar/poplar boards. All you need a sliced 36-60 grit belt sander belt stapled to a 2’ piece of two by four to shape. FastnFinal is at HD/Lowe/Ace too.

you end up with a pretty much bullet proof end product which most of the times ends up too stiff if you keep it too thick.

You do need a way to capture a rocker(we used favorite boards) but the design options are endless.

You can do solid wood rails from cedar or if you can get 1/16" balsa strips from the hobby store you can just bend the balsa around the rails like we did as taught to us by CMP pre-Bert. No one believes us when we tell them what we made our boards from.

With Greg’s new timberflex concept you can add on a thin strip of wood and some blue dow foam rails after gluing on some just some luan door panel skins in the deck and bottom and you can get high tech in a low tech way… Just glue on and shape the rail foam after you shaped and glued on all the wood components.

we’ve done maybe 20-30 of them using off the rack flat sheet insulfoam/bluedow wall and roof insulation.

My brother says we should follow the example laid here and trademark/servicemark or patent our technique(there’s allot secret sauce stuff) as the recession/depression method of surfboard building. May come in handy in 2009 from what I understand is coming… I’m kidding of course but I’m sure some a-hole here will do it to make a buck…

We wouldn’t have tried any of it all without watching CMP, Shwuz, TaylorO, Benny1, and a host of other experts like MikeJ, Silly, Sabs and of course Bert. We just ended up doing it the local boy no-money haubush construction worker ghetto way… Maybe we’ll make a video one day of how we do it…

You’d be amazed at what you can make from the stuff at your local hardware store…

Yeah, a day off for me is wandering the isles scheming the next creation while wifey is shopping.

What is the absolutely cheapest epoxy available? I don’t even care if it’s clear or not. If you are going for a cheap board, that seems to be the most expensive part.

home depot and epoxy dont mix well with me, If im looking for epoxy I gotta go somewhere else. Some other con-a-sewers round these here parts might have the epoxy thing nailed. Why not go waterproof plastic skins, got good glue there for that.

Jusyt havin a laugh with this hd thang, now where is that blow dryer heat gun?? Ahh ill just get some chicken wire and use my car battery charger, ohh in the shower curtain isle now, gotta do that fabric stretch test.

hey , whered the b-boo flooring go? n there outta cork.

some one chime in here quick

havent tried the concrete sealers yet though.

I don’t care if its from HD, I just want cheep. The cheapest I found is 80 bucks a gallon. ouch.

http://www.shopmaninc.com/epoxy.html

awesome, thanks for the link

Anyone ever used this stuff before?

http://www.aircraftspruce.com/catalog/cmpages/vinylester.php

It seems strange that it uses MEKP for catalyst. Is it compatible with EPS?

or this stuff?

http://www.aircraftspruce.com/catalog/cmpages/polyepoxy.php

Let me know.

bump.

Just wondering if anyone has used this stuff. ^^^^^^

ha! thats great. i wondered about that quite often while stocking those boards. Definitely going to have to give it a go.