I watched this video of the legendary Ricky Carroll shape a 11’6 waimea gun on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uwq2MIMuvI
At 2:30 he starts laminating the rails with this weave material that I have never seen before.
Has anyone seen this stuff? What is it? Is it vacuum bagged on?
Looks like he's using woven palm. I used if for deck patches on a few boards. It's flexible and relatively lightweight. I vac bag in on....
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~Brian
Sorry, haven't been able to post full sized pics for a while. It always shows as 100 x 50 px.....
[img_assist|nid=1046631|title=woven palm deck|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=0|height=0]~Brian
Brian, D you have any woven palm that I can buy off greenlightsurfsupply.com?
How much is the stuff worth per yard?
Wow, that is a beautiful board.
It is a really beautiful board. I am trying so hard to get hold of this palm weave.
Hey Jonnyshaper,
Not sure how much woven palm I have left. When I get back into the shop I'll let you know. Should definitley be enough to lam rails but I don't know if there's enough for a deck patch.
Take it easy
~Brian
Hi Brian,
Yeah I only want to laminate the rails like in the video, Except its for a 5’9 not a 11’6. How much is it? Did you get yours for personal projects or to sell in your store? If its just a personal project and not something you sell where do you get yours from?
Do you lam with epoxy?
Thank afoaf. The woven palm is beautiful isn’t it. I just have to hope that Greenlightsurfsupply have enough cloth.
can you get hemp cloth wherever it is you live , jonny ?
i ask , because we have plenty here , in west oz.
From what i can see in that photo , the woven palm looks a similar colour ?
cheers
ben
...i don't know if you can do 'advanced search' on swaylocks any more [??] , but there should be a fair bit of stuff on hemp , hemp fins , and the like , under either my current username , or the previous [chipfish61] ...i hope this helps ?