One last try here...

Ok, I live up here near the 45th parallel on the coast, small town…nearest surf shop is 120 miles away and they don’t sell blanks to the gp…

And I need three blanks for shaping over the winter (was to be over the summer but that didnt work out…thanks blank company for wasting my time and stringing me along)

I need a SUP blank in EPS…10’10" x 30 x 5…will settle for an 11’2" x 30 in poly…

I need two 8’4" in poly, blanks that are thicker and wider like the King Mac CB line…

So, I have the money, who has the blanks?

Do I need to drive 900 miles one way to some place in Socal?

Any one have a hook up for these blanks in Santa Cruz or further north? If so, pm me…

http://www.fiberglasssupply.com/ …???..

Bellingham, Washington…

Hey Paul…called them once a week in May, called them once a week in June, called them again a few weeks ago…and at that time (May) I was looking for 8 blanks (my buddies gave up)

No response from them via email or phone so I could not imagine dealing with them if there was an issue with the blanks or the order.

I am not here to whine or to disparage those distributors I have tried so far though but other sways’ members have passed on the nightmares that they have had with certain ‘companies’.

I just want to buy these three blanks.

(btw, love your boards, if’n I get rich…I will call ya!)

Why don’t you cut it out by yourself with hot wire?

(i leave tons of miles away from the nearest wave so i know your situation)

Regards Flavio

I do not have access to any type of EPS…and I am sure as shit not going to waste my dough or time on some crappy home depot foam.

But I do live on the water anyway…

You can use “crappy home depot eps” if you build a compsand. the skins is were your flex will come from and you can do it for a 100 dollars. check out the door skin board thread. also did you talk to foam EZ. they have always been great to me. I have ridden a home built compsand that rode great. Just keep tryingpart of the good feeling when it is finished will come from the jouney. where exactly do you live I might be able to help.

Regards, DARTH GIRVIN

DARKSIDE FOR LIFE!

I dont think a doorskin is going work very well on a SUP…but at 8’, I might get one to fit the 8’4"!

And compsand?

Dude, I cant get blanks, where the hell am I going to get a vacuum bag, vacuum, hoses, pipes, valves?

Keep in mind, I have no need for the latest and greatest high tech parabolic railed 2.5 inch thick five finned wiggle chip, some of us just want to shape and surf a good old every day foam blank (but thats a whole 'nother topic)

And yes, the company you mentioned has had my email/phone for a bit now…

“Yeah, well not everything is listed on the website, let me check on that blank and I will get back to you…”

From an email dated 6/16/08.

i’d try matt ambrose

http://www.ambrosesurfblanks.com/

If you go to compsand.com and lokk at the begginner thread you can see it is easy to build a vacume set up. I don’t build (wiggle chips) I havn’t ever evan made a traditional short board. I was just rying to give you an option. you can build a compsand from materials you can buy a home depot. you don’t have to make wood rails either.That is why I recomended it, I thought they had home depot everywhere. If you can’t get a blank this might be your only option. If you looked at my single fin 5’8 egg with traditonal resin tint and no pinlines maybe you wouldn’t jump to conclusion that I make 5 finned wiggle ships. I was just trying to help. Have a good day!

Regards, DARTH GIRVIN

DARKSIDE FOR LIFE!

have you tried pauhanasurfsupply.com?

I’m not affilaited with them but we had a box of blanks shipped to the Fastenal store o Oahu dirt cheap.

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I can only imagine the emails you sent and why no one responded…

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I can only imagine the emails you sent and why no one responded…

Yes you can imagine…all you want and I will let you think anything you would like to, its not my mission to keep your imagination from running wild nor to put an end to your ASSuming anything about me or what I wrote in any communication I have had with any blank ‘companies’.

But for your info and to perhaps keep you from looking too stupid…I have yet to tell any of of these ‘companies’ what I think of them.

I really feel they are doing the best they can with what they have and with so few blank distributors out there-I certainly am not going to burn any bridges…Buts thats just us up here in the Wonderland.

You Socal kids may have a different point of view.

Got a hot tip from another swayser and was on the phone to some guy in SC…

Also got a hot tip from another swayser who related a nightmare about his dealings with a certain ‘company’.

And thats what it is all about, sharing good info and saving others from wasting money on bad service and crappy blanks.

you can make a vac bag system that works great for really cheap… compsand is a good alternative. You can hook a vacuum hose to the inlet of a compressor from a refrigerator or freezer and it will work really well. When a fridge gets thrown out, its usually just because of a refrigerant leak, you can easily pick up a compressor for free. At home depot you can ask for higher density insulfoam blocks than the stuff they stock, and they should be able to get it for you. As was mentioned, compsands derive their stiffness from the skins, not the foam, so you dont need high quality foam to make a great board. In my opinion, there is a certain tone to your writing, but who am I? Good luck finding your blanks. If all else fails in your quest for blanks, go compsand!

why bother?

what am i supposed to do at work, work?

Durbs what ever you so don’t work, AHHHHHHHHHH I agree about tones.

you’re asking the wrong guy…

I’m putting on a leash loop, bagging on skins, building rails and putting together a powerpoint for a 1:30 demo.

oh, and going surfing.

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In my opinion, there is a certain tone to your writing, but who am I? Good luck finding your blanks. If all else fails in your quest for blanks, go compsand!

Tone? What tone are you talking about?

Hey, surfinghigh, maybe you should go to Portland to get a blank. Ha! Or invite some Caliwhackers to come up and visit you. Make sure and send us a map!

from surfinghigh’s profile and past posts.

Interests- Keeping our spots free of the fuck and Caliwhackers…

"Good for ya, this post is actually garnered the attention of the Portland Kook Squad that inhabit the OSP…

STAY HOME, OREGON IS FLAT, COLD, FICKLE AND SHARKY.

The locals are not real friendly either. "

"Naw, we get it by keeping the wankers from Portland and the valleys out of our cold, fickle and sharky surf. Our thumbs have nothing to do with it.

We do treat travelers a little better…but we can spot a Portland kook a mile away…Can you say ‘surftech’?

Nope, never be as crowded as the south and we will keep it that way.

Hot in Ojai today? "

"I wouldnt say we are grumpy, we just dont have the time for the Portland kooks, the valley kooks and the rest of the wankers that want to come up here and get waves.

Think ‘Hollywood by the Sea’, not brodown hodown SC or SD.

The OSP itself is a bastion of these motherfuckers, hated by every local on the coast. They spill spots, pull over anywhere they see rigs with racks, they are simply scroungers with no will of their own but to fuck our spots up with filth.

They know their place and it isnt at my spots. "

Dude, Im so banned from that site I cant even read the page…

I look for 'em down my way, I know what they ride, what they drive and what they look like.

In my area, we (and I mean ‘we’) look for these bastards.Three Portland kooks from the OSP outted two of our local spots on that page-with pics!

Cali-boys, we dont mind so much, they give respect, low key, no chinese boards, even turn a few on now and then. But north of Lincoln City? The boys hold nothing down except Seaside and the trashed beaches and crowded line ups are the result. Its a kookfest.

Its not that there isnt room in the water, its the filth and the trash these kooks bring with them. Who wants to walk on broken beer bottles? Leftover fire pits?

If you bother, they got one Portland kook who posted…“I always go on the wave to make sure the guy in position is going to make it”…“its not shoulder hopping-its the only way I get waves”…WTF???

We aint the “Bra Boys” but we do like things the way they are.

Forgot to add and nothing against Surfrider but…when Surfrider holds events, they aint at the Coast, no no, they hold’em in…Portland!

oh

yep sounds like you need some quality help.

…ambrose…

feel deeply for your preicament.

I am having the same problem with getting clear spruce.

life is funny,the guys that strung me along

about stringer wood stopped communicating in may too.

and my friend who was connected got burned by the guy with the pile of wood

by the time he saw it it was picked over and all the quality stuff was gone.

some times You have to make do with what you have.

praise the wood spirits

puck the foam

make a wood straddle various?

lets talk about a greater challenge

If you gett really mad

invest your anger in a higher solution.

if you implode ?

whaddya get?

cool head

you can overcome any problem

no problems only solutions.

NO FOAM?

Puck phoam!

visualize foam stocking out their …