Anyone ever successfully make a stringerless foam / fiberglass surfboard? And does Clark foam or others even offer blanks like this? The board weight would drop big-time!
Anyone ever successfully make a stringerless foam / fiberglass surfboard? > And does Clark foam or others even offer blanks like this? The board > weight would drop big-time! And, I assume, the thing would snap like a twig on an ankle-slapper day.
It might work for a 6’2" or shorter board. Maybe if it were glassed with a deck of 6/4oz., and a bottom of 4/4oz., along with a gloss finish?>>> And, I assume, the thing would snap like a twig on an ankle-slapper day.
What if you cut the stringer out from a regular blank and glue the two halves back together?
Anyone ever successfully make a stringerless foam / fiberglass surfboard? > And does Clark foam or others even offer blanks like this? The board > weight would drop big-time! There was a period of time in the mid sixties that stringerless longboards were in vogue. Gordon and Smith surfboards had a Midget Farrelly Stringerless model. When Bob McTavish developed the first shorter “V” bottomed Plastic Machines, most of those were stringerless.
What if you cut the stringer out from a regular blank and glue the two > halves back together? …YOU CAN ORDER A “GLUE-UP” FROM CLARK(NO WOOD).What I do is order it cut w/o a stringer and glue it up my self with a layer or 2 of glass,Herb.
i just finished a board 2 fibreglass stringers bout 2" either side of centre line and then laminated 0.5 mm timber veneer top and bottom between the fglass stringers. knida forming a box beam if ya follow. bit of labour and dont really need the fibreglass stringers, it is a light board tho and still surviving. it would be interesting to compare the standard vert. stringer to horizontal stringers top and bottom which is essentially sandwich construction technology. i think the latter has much potential to play with, but also more equipment too(vfacuum bag…)
i just finished a board 2 fibreglass stringers bout 2" either side of > centre line and then laminated 0.5 mm timber veneer top and bottom between > the fglass stringers. knida forming a box beam if ya follow. bit of labour > and dont really need the fibreglass stringers, it is a light board tho and > still surviving. it would be interesting to compare the standard vert. > stringer to horizontal stringers top and bottom which is essentially > sandwich construction technology. i think the latter has much potential to > play with, but also more equipment too(vfacuum bag…) Mog- You’re a mad scientist! That’s the most interesting use of modern materials I’ve heard in a long while. Good on ya…