source for wood stringers

General Discussion
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Anyone know were to get wood stringers in the San Diego area?

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Any store that sells wood or high density foam… Lowes, Home Despot, boat manufacturing companies carry D-cell and C-cell foam, plastic manufactures carry PVC.

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Thanks OTAY. Asking around at the harbor sounds like a good idea. All I can find at HD, Lowes & Frost in the neighborhood of 1/8" thickness is door skin and MDF. The doorskin is brittle stuff. Maybe I’ll just use PVC.

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What size board? They sell clear cedar and redwood there. A table saw, planer, jigsaw would be all the tools needed to make it.

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Hi Tom ,

I know two Swaylock’s guys in SD that have balsa strips aprox 4"x4’. We have made stringers out of it but it is not one long clean piece. I’m working a deal right now to score some more of the PVC material so contact me before you spend any money on PVC stringers. There was a company in Oceanside selling stringers with Clark rockers but I don’t remember their name. They might be gone now…

Ray

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Western Shapers Services 760 753 6299

All of your surfboard needs, custom stringers, blank cutting and gluing.

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Ray, thanks, I’ll search for that O’side company and if that doesn’t turn anything up I’ll check back with you about the PVC. The balsa sounds good but I think the stuff you used was around 1/2" and I don’t have a bench mount style thickness planer. By the way, if you have any fin or tail block projects coming up I can get you a block of exotic wood.

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Thanks Jim!