Anyone have printable cardboard (or wood) honeycomb style plans/templates? (LONG SHOT, I KNOW).
My kids want to do one out of cardboard or lauan plywood and I am unable to find printable plans to make templates to cut all of the strips. I am thinking without templates shapping the board will be next to impossible. This is what started it all… goo.gl/fPszW
I am open to all types and shapes of boards because this is most likley going to be a wall hanger in our basement mancave but I want it to have shape so if I ever decide to give it a paddle out it will surf decent.
I’ve never done a cardboard framed board before… And I wondered about the same thing… What stops the glass from taking the easiest (flat) path over to the next cardboard rib?? Why should it folow the curves??
Look to the " Carbon heel patch" thread for the answer… Cirex and clear fiberglass pre cured in a glass sheet or even better on a form that mimics the board’s contours…
Clear fiberglass and cerex veneer, vacuumed onto the cardboard frame… Sounds dumb… Yes …I know…
Your carbon patch explanation made perfect sense, still pliable, apply to indentation preshaped into the foam, but it’s still supported 100% by the foam underneath, right? It’s not spanning any voids. I couldn’t imagine laying up and entire boards worth of glass to the solid but still pliable stage and then applying to the cardboard ribbing. No doubt, the photos look very cool and it’s a very cool idea, but I’d like to see one in person to see how continuously curved the surface of the glass is as opposed to a bunch of flat surfaces from rib to rib. Either way, it’s a very interesting concept and I love the out of the box aspect of it.
My thoughts were to pinch the sides “over hanging rails” of the cloth with yard sticks and clamps then pull the cloth over the board with A LOT of tension and let it cure that way.
I did something similar a long time ago with a boat where we needed to make a piece out of glass and we did not have a “jig” or “mold” so we made it by appling different levels of tension through out the cloth and 2x4s poking into the glass creating the shape. The catch was to use a lot of duct tape on edges and the yard sticks with clamps. That kept it from un-weeving while we filled the glass with epoxy. It will have to be 6oz cloth.
...I'd like to see one in person to see how continuously curved the surface of the glass is as opposed to a bunch of flat surfaces from rib to rib. Either way, it's a very interesting concept and I love the out of the box aspect of it.
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From the pics I've seen, it is simply a bunch of small flat surfaces - the glass does not "continuously curve" beyond what the framework dictates. If you're really curious, IIRC there is an instructional video that can be purchased, that gives the suggestions on glassing.