any advice / photos of what you guys use to accurately weigh your boards, please ?
thanks for any help
ben
I’m keen to see what mine all weigh …
I’d also like to hear
well
to be honest
the deli up the road
digital scales
so if ya really keen the butchers or a chemist
or digital bathroom scales are acurate
the method of weighing …
a] prop the board against a wall ?
or
b] hold it, without adding any weight somehow?
[I’d like to be able to have the board horizontal and , yet still be able to read the weight… ]
?balance it on top of say an empty icecream container , then deduct the weight of the container ?
…any other more accurate way / scales ?
cheers !
ben
hey ben,
the cheapest with decent accuracy is a spring scale fishermen use…accuracy depends on the scale’s range and resolution…so if your boards weigh less than 5kg then a good scale would have a range of 0-5kg…
im using 3 different scales, two spring and one digital lab scale…
If you have reasonably accurate bathroom scales, preferably digital, 1) weigh yourself 2) weigh yourself and your board. 3) subtract one from the other. The difference is the weight of your board. If you want more accuracy do the above steps 3 or more times, add the results together and divide by the number of times you weighed it. That should be pretty close.
As far as finished boards go, I’m into hanging and weighing on a fishing scale too. I used to carefully make a masking hook to weigh the shaped blank too.
As far as resin goes, particularly epoxy, a small digital is good.
I drive my boards 400 miles to Cal Tech, actually the scale at JPL is much more accurate. I weigh them in a neutral water buoyency tank 4 times to get an average. Then I add the common weight of a set of 4.5 x 4.75 fins…usually something made our of a hyper alloy combat weight foam, obviously unglasses. Then I can ride them accurately.
You really have to know the weight of the board before you can accurately surf the board. I mean 8.34534 oz difference under my feet is a deal breaker.
Common man, just drag the old bathroom scale outside and weight that glass beast.
I tuck the board under my right arm, then tuck it under my left arm. Done. Perfect weight.Mike
I like the buoyancy tank idea . That sounds really good Jay .I’ll keep it in mind , right after I get done with these …
25 lb spring scale, 2 Kg kitchen scale, 1 liter calibrated kitchen pitcher, 30cc medicine cup, 10cc syringe…
I use all of these to weigh boards and to measure miscellaneous glassing stuff.
I weighed one of my boards once on a triple beam balance scale (like the one in gyms or doctors offices). I did the method of weighing myself, then myself with board and then subtract the difference. It weighed myself a couple of times and got the average, tehn weighed myself + board a couple of times and got the average, then subrtacted the averages.
Why is weight a major issue anyway? I have had super light boards that have felt dead in the water, I have had heavier ones that feel alive…
If a boards a dog, the reading on a set of a scales won’t stop it barking!
GEEEEEEEEEEZZ! you don’t weigh your boards !?
you must be from the surfermag forum…
Why would I bother weighing a 1 layer 4 ounce all over 6’2 mate? I already know it’s light. I think I’d rather spend my time just riding it and drawing my conclusions in the water. At least I can still surf good enough to tell the difference. If you want to spend your time weighing this and that go right ahead. It won’t make you surf any better…
Get off my back while you’re at it as well mate. I am refraining from torching you publicly, rising above it…
if you want to doubt my credentials go right ahead but I fail to see how it will really affect my life on the whole anyway. Believe, don’t believe. Whatever! Pick a fight with someone else.
thanks John .
A picture says 1000 words . [Maybe even more !]
cheers !
ben
just messin’ with ya. no need to get bothered…
you’re right that ultimately its how the board performs and the skill level of the surfer. ( and KS could ride a hollow concrete surfboard better than anyone.) And sometimes a heavier board is more desirable than a light one.
But I think when you’re making your own boards you like to evaluate its construction on a number of levels. One of them being weight. That will tell you a lot of things about the board. And things you could learn for the next one.
If you could make a board as light as your 6’2" with 1x4 and it lasted more than a couple of sessions, you would be interested in that wouldn’t you ?
once again sarcasm fails to be properly transmitted via the internets!
keep the photos coming if you have any …it’s interesting [for me only??] to SEE what is being used .
I actually just want to have some idea if my homemade boards are lighter than my other ones , and by how much , as I have no idea when people ask what my 70s cooper would weigh , compared to the stubbie I made [they “feel about the same weight”,but it will be interesting , for me , to actually SEE ]
cheers !
ben
c’mon chip… tell the truth…
what do you really want that scale for ?