I’ve been building a couple of boards this summer in an attempt to build a durable but light longboard. Inspired by Dwight’s thread on wet out tables, I was able to build a couple of boards, vacuum bagging veneer decks and nylon and cork around the bottom and rails and they are strong, but they weigh around 18 pounds. The board I’m in the process of building now, I’m trying for more like 13 or 14 pounds. It’s a 9 ft 6 in eps 1.5 lb blank that I hand lammed a layer of 4 oz top and bottom and then vacuumed on a .023 veneer deck with another layer of 4 oz under that. The blank weighed 4 lbs 8 ozs, then with the layer top and bottom, 6 lbs 4 ozs, and then with the veneer, 7 lbs 13 ozs. At this point I was just goin to ad a couple layers more of 4 oz and call it good though I know the bottom at least, will flex when pressed on. I have some innegra around from a past build and though it was a bitch to wrap the rails with, I thought I might try it again on this board and not try to wrap the rails. So my question is what is the best way to apply the innegra to the existing glass and keep it light. I’m wondering if I were to squeegee resin onto the board, lay on the innegra. then wet out a layer of 4 onz on the table, put that on top and bag it , would that be enough resin to hold it together or do I need to saturate the innegra. When I used it in the past, I layed it on the board like a layer of glass and then poured a ton of resin on it, thinking the excess would be pulled out under vacuum but that added a lot of weight. Any advice here would be much appreciated.
By the way, I don’t have enough points to respond to my thread. If I did, I would respond to Huck’s over fifty thread, and tell him, hell, I didn’t even start surfing until I was fifty.
Edit, thanks for the responses. I’m using greenroom resin. I probably wasn’t very clear in describing what I meant by stiff. I was thinking of the skins impact strength, hence the innegra which I thought acts kind of like a core between the glass layers and is tough to break through when impacted. A lot of friends who surf two weeks a year use my boards and they get a lot of abuse. This one board though, I’m reseving for myself, figure it can be a bit more delicate.