I’ve been using White Hot which is made right up the road here in AZ. Very nice stuff and no water intrusion at all. I agree that 4oz is overkill, maybe on longboards or guns, but on performance boards in small waves the nylon will be nice. Nice idea Huie.
So this on the right is Ultra, the board on the left is brightened with PH but doesn’t look real bright anymore. Both new boards.
gdaddy- can you please explain what a non woven veil is… i.e. brand name or product type. that sounds like the way to go. i`ve been using 1.5lb eps with 4 oz under veneer, 4 oz over and it does seem rugged but a bit stiff. thanks!
Dang, that’s an amazing difference.
And beautiful shapes to boot.
Cheers!
But hey, thank you for agreeing to come online and giving us all here the opportunity to ask, then answering each one so swiftly. You’ve been seriously pumping out those responses ever since the instant this thread first got fired up - guess that gives us another pretty good clue as to how you’ve managed to accomplish so much over your career; high productivity levels!
It’s been a real treat, so once again, thanks!
2nd that
Hear, hear Ace. Thanks guys, I’ve always had fun here. Sam shapes very nice. He took over the factory in FL when I left. Still surfs great, just got a little backside barrel spread in the new ESM mag. I’m very lucky to have had him onboard for the last three decades.
Gdaddy- answered my own question with a search on here. love this stuff. new question… do you think the non woven veil itself could be hand lammed and if so would it be strong enough to hold the rocker of a shaped eps blank for vacuuming on the skins. i have no room in my shop for a rocker table
Greg, First let me compliment you on your short and astute synapses of International business. So when are you taking RR public 
I would like to take this back to your surfing career. you Have surfed with and competed against some of the best surfers from the 1960s on. I know it is hard to put anyone above another but who are a few of the surfers you admired most or competitors you dreaded seeing in a heat?
Greg, First let me compliment you on your short and astute synapses of International business. So when are you taking RR public
I would like to take this back to your surfing career. you Have surfed with and competed against some of the best surfers from the 1960s on. I know it is hard to put anyone above another but who are a few of the surfers you admired most or competitors you dreaded seeing in a heat?
Oh yea, there a question Greg asked me back on page one I forgot. About different projects I’ve built. He mentioned the prop I did for UF’s man powered plane that crossed the English Channel. Did a number of human powered boats and subs with FL Tech. Did a solar car with them as well which was an awesome car. Timothy Tice was the grad student who was the engineer on that one, brilliant kid. There was a race from Epcot to GM headquarters in Detroit. Our car was well in the lead but we hit the mountains and the engine overheated. Tim went and got a hair dryer, took the heating elements out and duck taped in position. They finished well but that time out cost them too much to win. Lots of exotic surfboard, sailboard, kiteboard, snowboard, SUP projects with different people and companies. Did a couple seminars at Cerritos College which were really nice. Did another at Channins on the hill in Encinitas after Clark closed. That one was quite well attended. I was really nervous laminating in front of all these legendary board builders. Did a fun one with a bunch of the Grand Canyon dory builders last winter. We built 10 SUP’s and had a great time doing it. It was in Flagstaff and it was the first time I ever looked up from a shape and saw snow dumping from the sky. Finally, this guy from Tampa came over with this gigantic chunk of foam and wanted a Catamaran pontoon shaped. 16 foot. That was a nice challenge and maybe the biggest piece of foam I ever shaped. You really made me work on that one Greg.
What a great question, Artz. Lopez, Nuuhiwa, Tomson, Cairns, Roland, Tabeling, Crawford, both Aikau’s, MP, BK, Rory, Bertelman, Aipa, Mark Warren, Slater, Hobgood, O’Rorke, Rasmussen, Purpus, Drouyn, Beatty, Mulhern, Kechele, Staples, James Jones, many more I can’t think of right now. Thanks for making me remember that.
Greg,
I think I speak fof everyone in thanking you for participating in this Q/A session. Almost every question I can think of has been asked and answered. I’ve always wanted to know who shaped that red board you were riding at Pipe In “Fluid Drive”, where you had that insane barrel. Back then It seemed you had to be Lopez, Rory Russell, Mike Armstrong, etc. to get deep at Pipe but you and other east coasters…Crawford, Rick Raz, proved everyone wrong. Best wishes in 2015.
sorry, im confused, is the new ULTRA are some kind of additive ? i mean like you adding additive F in a batch of kwick kick?. or is it a new kind of epoxy resin that has nothing to do with kwick kick?
when it goes out to the market?
Idan, the Ultra is a new resin modification, modified by us. We can make any of our resins bright now with the Ultra package. After a long test schedule we’ve found that it will generally look best for the longest time when combined with the CE (blue) package. So we are suggesting the 2000 CE Ultra or the Kwik Kick CE Ultra as the brightened resin of choice for boards.
Owl shaped that beautiful 8 foot Pipeline gun. Crawford and I always talked about Pipeline when we were kids. We surfed together everyday and pushed each other, friendly competition, lots of days at Sebastian Inlet. Monster Hole too. We were very aware that the only East Coaster who’d ever had a presence in HI was Valuzzi and no one at Pipe. We were determined to change that.
That’s the Owl board, sweet ride.
Thanks Greg for sharing the story behind that board and that era. I find It amazing that through modern technology stories and information like this can be shared. Thanks.
What is epoxy made of ?
Thanks
I got Owl going full steam about 3 hours ago , I know what buttons to push for the maximum experience
