I am a college art student who has been surfing for a long time. I want to get into shaping and after doing a lot of searching i think i want to make an eps board for my first one due to the low cost. Does anyone know if theres a link that explains how to make the eps boards. I have a book on regular surfboard shaping but it seems that this is different. Please send me any information you have.
Try this thread here>
http://www.swaylocks.com/forum/gforum.cgi?post=173845;search_string=14%24%20blank;#173845
Should get you started. It got me going.
I went to home depot today and all they had was the pink eps foam 2" thick and only 2 feet wide. I’ve seen some people posting the large blocks. Is it possible to get a decent rocker with the pink stuff?
sure it was eps?
most likley, pink=xps=delam
It’s waterproof extruded, will delam and bubble.
Bend it by making a rocker table or lay it atop an old board, shape, glass one side, let set, it will hold the rocker.
You can get enough foam from a foam supplier to make a 10’ board out of 2 lbs EPS for $40. Is the Home depot stuff cheap enough to make it worth the hassles associated with it?
What do you mean by a foam supplier? Do you mean a surfboard foam supplier or is it something different?
I went the 1lb eps route on my first (Lowes still has - here in MD - 1" x 4’ x8’ sheets of white eps) - you will spend a lot of money on the fiberglass + resin + your time too… Second board was a hot-wired 2lb eps.
Check out Cellofoam - they have several factories around the country & the one near me (in VA) doesn’t have a minimum order for blocks under 8’ that you pickup. I got three 12" x 12" x 96" blocks for about 50 - 60 dollars which, after some “interesting” hotwire experiments, came out to 4 “blanks”.
There are several threads on the site with eps sourcing info.
Good luck - the $14 blank thread hooked me too…
The place I went to supplies foam for architectural embellishments http://www.bayfoam.com/bayfoam/default.asp
EPS is usually pretty easy to find. Just takes a while to find a place that has the ability to supply you with blocks. I found Bay foam through an online yellow pages.
I found a place that makes custom eps foam. They wanted a ton of money to make the exact size i wanted but for a 8’x4’x24" they want $175. It’s enough foam to make 8 boards so it averages to about $20 a board.
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