With the new generation of high tech surfboards hiting the beach like ,firewhire, libtech etc. If you were to build the ultimate board without considering how much it would cost $ what materials would you use ?
Any materials? … I’d some how figure out a core made with eggs, potatoes, beans and cheese - I’d laminate all that with a tortilla and salsa…
It would be epic! - every time I’d be in the line up and craving the ultimate surf food I’d just take a bite… Sooo good.
Poetry, Wine, The Crecent Moon…and my dog Baxter.
Varial Foam, Astroquartz Glass ($70/yard if you buy 90 yards $$$), Epoxy (Resin Research Kwick Kick) or maybe a UV curing resin. Make it look like a simple board, no fancy carbon meshes or tail pads etc, just good foam, good glass, good resin. No Gimicks.
Titanium.
Astrquarts II is the same as s glass 99.99% silica astrquarts III is same as II but has high heat sheilding property so its mainly used in rockets.
some nice wood !
you dont really need some expensive tuff, just with high quality glass and pvc sandwich you can build the board that you will not break or dent and lasts forever with a bit of maintenance…
if ypu want a board that survives washing on rocks, full warp in dyneema and the flex tuning by uni carbon will do the job, still talking about 200-300 bucks, nothing extreme…
S Glass is 60-65 percent SiO2. E glass is 52-60%. AstroQuartz is pure quartz and about 20-30x the price of E glass.
Source -
2001 ASM International,
ASM Handbook, Vol. 21: Composites (#06781G):
Glass Fibers
Frederick T. Wallenberger, James C. Watson, and Hong Li, PPG Industries, Inc.
I looked it up with your link your on to it your right. The other info i read is on jps composite. Its intriguing that jps refer to it as s glass
http://www.jpsscm.com/about/advanced-composite-materials/