Hallo,
here is my new (not-so-serious-but-please-don’t-laugh-very-much) project.
Some years ago i found this old EPS surfboard with that horrible mid-90’s graphics.
It was broken, so I took it home thinking to transform it into a surfboard.
You can see it and read the measurements in the pictures.
Last night I cut off two slices, according with some (ill, I guess) shape I had in mind.
Actually I had not a particular project or shape in mind, I just didn’t want to unglass it, re-shape it
and then re-glass it, just because it is made of EPS and the existing glass is very hard to cut.
I tried to strip it off, but large pieces of foam came out along with the glass.
It is not meant to be a serious surfboard, I just want to have a try.
The project is:
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cut the board into a new outline
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peel off a part of the deck or the bottom glass (that depends)
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shape the rails of the peeled partt
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re-glass it and place fins.
My questions (please help!) are:
a) what kind of shape can I make? the board is pretty thick, especially at the tail, and I didn’t want
to destroy the nose.
b) should I make a thinner tail?
c) what kind of tail is appropriate?
d) What about the rocker? I was thinking about not modifying the bottom rocker, but since I have
to peel off some glass, I could peel the bottom side and modify the rocker. My thought is to
peel the deck and make it thinner.
Consider that I’m a beginner, I surf in small mediterranean waves,
Thank you in advance!
Tavlas
