Shell2 for eps

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There may have been some confusion on the pricing in this case. We just recieved the price list from the glass shop and here is how the price breaks down if you want a tinted or airbrushed board.

The technology used is called “Shell2 technology” and as described by Presicion Glassing it is “A unique thin-snadwich technology which builds a stury shell around the HAND SHAPED BLANK before painting and final lamination. This technique yields the strongest HAND SHAPED BOARD achievable” The price is as follows: Up to 6’6"-Add $75, up to 8’- Add $100, up to 9’6"-Add $125, up to 10’6" Add $150. This price is for the entire board-NOT PER SIDE. This price is for the shell technology only- color is additional. Color charges start at $40 for single color airbrushing and go up from there depending on the method that you choose for the coloration.

I hope that this clarifies the initial question and we appologize for any confusion. All of these factors are new and constantly changing, so please be patient with us so we can all get the most current facts and build everyone great boards! Please call the show room (562)430-5614 and have any of our sales associates go over the EPS boards should you have any questions or if you would like to order one!

I was wondering what could be the origins of this Shell2. Could be some branch of surftech? Or maybe something along the lines of Herb’s future polish technique. Or some acrylic spray that allows bonding to epoxy? Perhaps a plastic shell covering the blank? Or that rhino liner thing they use in truck beds? Well they make it thinner for surfboard use . . . Or maybe thin wood strips or bert tech?

Apparently it allows you to get colors, even tints and resin swirls . . . Harbour’s pretty picky and thats cuz he wants it done right.

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It sounds like a thin sprayed-on layer of high-density poyurethane foam. Probably something like this:

http://www.industrialpolymers.com/styrospray.html

Something like this would make the board stronger, but might effect the feel of the board.

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4 layers Elemr’s glue maybe?

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Hey Ken, that styro spray is interesting . . . you could probably coat the blank with the urethane stuff, then use regular resin on it. They have one that’s flexible. Like RR does, great minds think alike.

They said you have to call for the white papers on it . . . or buy it . . . so I don’t know how the bond to Epoxy is. But epoxy can be forumulated to stick to anything and there isn’t any mention of what type of epoxy the Harbour glassers are using.

Hehe Shipman, using elmers. You use the yellow wood glue and get a ding and get this slobbery mess and the epoxy delams off. Or maybe you’re about the urethane glue, that stuffs strong and water proof, but it puffs out like marshmallows.

thanks for the replies!

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Hiropro, as an experiment I know some one who did use layers white elmers glue to seal up a eps blank, glassed it with poly…It still melted. I seem to think he threw it at the wall as it was melting and it stuck to the wall or something like that.,i don’t know.

anyway. good luck with your styro spray aventures.

Ben.

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cool thanks. . . I was wondering if you were being serious or funny . … wow gotta hand it to them for trying . . .

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I tried it.

I shaped an EPS blank and painted it with 5 layers of latex paint so I could glass it with poly resin.

The resin ate thru the little pinhiles I didn’t fully seal, and I had a hollow board of my own. I poured some actone into the inside and dissolved the rest of the foam so all that was left was a stringer encased in a glass frame.

-chris