re : your local surfboard supplies guy ....

I was just wondering the sort of variety / range available to you from the place where you buy your board supplies stuff.

For example , if you were making a fish …fish blanks available , or a kneeboard blank adapted ?

Cloth types ? widths ?

Resins ?

Fin and attachment options ? [eg: plugs , boxes are available …which ones …o’fishl ? bahne? redx? lokbox? fcs? other ?]

Do they also have “sundries” : -

leg rope plugs ?

leash loops?

grip deck / pads ?

wax ?

surforms ?

gauze ?

sanding screens?

sandpaper ?

masking tape[s] ?

sprays?

pigments ?

tints ?

anything ELSE you would like to mention ?

okay , thanks for your help !

If I knew how to turn this into a “survey” or a “vote” thing, I’d be interested to know the percentage of places that stock ALL of the above …

cheers ! 



 ben

Fiberglass Hawaii in Santa Cruz.

All the above.

fiberglass hawaii in santa barbara…all of the above and then some!

…what other things ?

cheers !

ben

posca pen things, planers, buffing pads, just about anything you could think of…carbon fiber cloth and kevlar as well.

Hello to all,

Here in Barcelona, we can find pigments and tools (planner, sander…) easily, gassing materials quite expensive (30 € 5 liters of polyester) but for a foam we’ve got to order them in Bilbao (500 Km and quite expensive) or in France.

But no problem… it’s usual to go to Bilbao (or other parts in the north coast) to surf for a weekend. Tomorrow is hollyday here and i’ll leave work at 13:00 to go to the north coast … unfortunatelly forecast is very bad !!!

Hola GKE!

Good waves to you!

Hi Chipfish!

I can get blanks(7f$ 6ft5 kneelo), glass-on fins, fibreglass (aaround 6$m (bloody company won’t tell me what once though!) Resin and Catalyst (4L $55) Fin Soloutions set (35$) (once again they wont tell me if it comes with any instalation jigs) 10" fin boxes ($10) etc. from “SOUTH coast foam” located on the goldy…?!

I can get everything, and I mean everything, I need at my local EXCEPT epoxy resin…

Shame he’s not open on the weekends though…

$17aus a litre for lam and filler resins here …

“fin blanks” … unfoiled and unsanded fins …

do many of you have surf suppliers that provide THESE ?

We used to have …they were at a more reasonable price than I could make my own for , too … bring 'em back , please !!

Blanks ; burford

resin; surflife

fins ; speeed, ofishl. glass on hohensee

glass; south coast foam and fiberglass

special tools and sand paper for velcro pads; shapers

all other; where ever the panel beaters get their gear

Here in France, we are lucky to have at least two suppliers in the same place, Hossegor. Seabase is the local importer for Clark Foam blanks and tools (planers), Silmar resin, Hexcel and Aerialite glass cloth, FU boxes and fins, Futures Fins, and plenty of other things including special tools, sanding pads, masking tape, paint, pigments, tints, whatever…

Surfoam is a local alternative for blanks, home-made by famous “RORO”. Not as much choice as Clark, of course (only 7 molds from 6’4" to 9’5") but growing. Surfoam also carries “Cray Valley” resin, fiberglass cloth, some tools, Fins Solution system, Maish fins, FCS and other things, too.

For those of us living around Biarritz, a short 1/2 hour drive to Hossegor will fullfill our needs…

As you probably know by now, Hossegor also has decent waves, sometimes…