I’m wondering if anyone out there rides or has ridden boards two inches thick or under (EPS/Epoxy). How do they work? What are their strong and weak points? What is the thinnest you would go? How do you scale the shape for different weight surfers?
Hi!
I know zilch about eps boards but today I laminated a 2 inch thick timber 13’9" . . . . I hope it handles the flex and stays in one piece !
Hey Roy,
can you post a pic? I’d like to see that board. Thanks!
Rio
Rio, I’ll post one soon but not today i don’t want to Hijack this thread (it’s really about eps), and I have to cut the board out first too.
Cheers, roy
cool.
Oh well, guilty if charged with threadjacking but here is a short video clip showing the panels for the board (1.8 Megabytes) at:
http://www.olosurfer.com/movie_theatre.html
it’s the clip called “dragonboard construction”
Cheers,
Tom Bloke
BTW I just measured the board and it is only an inch and 5/8ths thick !
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I'm wondering if anyone out there rides or has ridden boards two inches thick or under (EPS/Epoxy). How do they work? What are their strong and weak points? What is the thinnest you would go? How do you scale the shape for different weight surfers?
I have a 2 1/8" thick Patagonia board, which is XPS/epoxy. Its a few years old, its flex is gone, and it is a limp shadow of a board.
Most boards in the normal range of length/thickness will flex noticeably if built in the 2-2 1/4" range thick. Too floppy a board KILLS the performance. Flex with rebound can make a magic board.
Its non-trivial to get it right.
llilbel03
hi
i wouldnt make an eps sandwich(shortboard) any thicker than 2 inches aye
otherwize they can be too stiff
unless its a longboard of course
im 100 kg (220lb) and ride 1 7/8 …
all the other questions will be fun to find out for yourself …
regards
BERT
Here’s the blank. … 13’9" x 24" x an inch and 5/8ths thick. The blank is very strong and quite flexible. The bottom is 1/4 inch pine, and the deck is 50/50 pine and redwood at 3/8ths of an inch. Internal stuff is mostly redwood. The thinnest board around ?
we are:
8’0’s and a 7’4" see the ugly pics elsewhere…
Personally I don’t like them but I’m fat, old and learned to surf with the rest of the neanderthals
My brother on the other hand thinks they are “the solution” make two boards from a single sheet of 4’x8’x2" 1lb EPS.
cut in half glue in a stringer on a rocker table with weights
shape what ever bottom you want vacuum lam on the bottom on the table with weights again to lock in the rocker
shape the top and rails
Vacuum lam on the top weighted on the table again
end up with a 1.9 thick 8’0" blade that bareful floats 165lbs
Good cheap way to make boards for kids
Thinking about it though I did start out this whole adventure as a youngster on a 3/4" thick piece of torch bent plywood at a spot we called “Watch out Deep Holes” if you know where that is…
Proves again you can ride just about anything if that’s all you get.
Look at those guys in the soloman islands…
Hi Bert,
is 1 7/8 just the blank? or with skins? Thanks.
Rio
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Thinking about it though I did start out this whole adventure as a youngster on a 3/4" thick piece of torch bent plywood at a spot we called “Watch out Deep Holes” if you know where that is…
Proves again you can ride just about anything if that’s all you get.
I hate to veer off topic, but that is just too interesting. A propane torch with a flame spreader? You have the board deckside down? What do you use for leverage?