Got great results with carbon … GREAT results. But … couldn’t keep wax on it and it got to blasted hot in the FL summers. My only reservations … otherwise fanastic material. Oh yea, a bit hard to get and expensive for a while too. That’s easing up a bit though.
Being in Qld we have the same heat issues.
Dick’s on holidays at the moment and I’m keen to ask him about doing textured decks so no need for wax in future for me.
I never go surfing without a rash shirt and so the cheese grater effect should be minimal.
Also waiting for Shmoo to get back from overseas as he’s the Aussie distributor of Versa grip which is a clear deck grip from your side of the world.
I’m keen to try it as a solution for the board pictured above. So far the wax meltdown hasn’t been an issue since I have only been using the board since April and the weather hasn’t been too hot.
My carbon fish I’d ride in un-crowded winter beachbreaks so never a heat issue there.
My boards work for me and that’s the beauty of current surfboard technology in a broad spectrum there’s so much choice. Plenty of ways to skin a cat and I’m stoked I found a board that I can ride 90% of the time and it works. .
i made myself a sinlge 5 oz all over poly with zipper laps out of a close tolerence blank and have been surfing it hard for 2 months. it has fcs fusion boxes. its in very good condition. it has no finish coat and sanded to 120 grit . i will surf it for another month or two and sell it for material cost to someone or give it to a grommet and make something else
its first surf at 2 to 3 ft rocky lefts
if you want real strong build one like bert burgers out of 1 pound eps and corecell
i made this board and the minimal my mate is riding out of a flat sheet of 50mm insulation and resin research and west systems resin.
anywhere in between you may as well use poly!
5ft++ local
i like polys for mellow waves or when i want a nice looking board and composite boards for waves that snap boards
like this one.
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I’ve done probably a dozen now, bamboo skins over stringerless eps, for Jeff at Spindrift. The stringerless blanks are stiff enough to retain rocker, but also flexible enough to screw them up. You definitely have to take care. I had one situation in one of our first boards where I was trying to press some wrinkles out of the veneer caused by compound curves in the nose, and wound up pressing about 1.5 inches out of the nose rocker without noticing. Good lesson learned there, now we’re very careful to measure rocker before, during and after when doing veneers on stringerless blanks.