This would probobly be a 6’5ish x 18 3/4 x 2 3/8. Two 4oz layers on top and one 4oz on bottom.Waxed up with leash and ready to go! Can you really tell a difference in how the same board would ride with 6oz cloth?Is it worth the weight to strength ratio in your opinion? Thanks!
5-6lbs Whether or not you can tell depends on you. I can tell the difference and dont really like the feel of a “heavy board”. Some people like the weight and feel it has more momentum or drive.
Some can weigh as much as 8 lbs. IMHO it’s time ALL factories and ALL surf shops invest in a cheap scale. I can’t tell you how many factories I’ve been in that don’t have one. Strength to weight is what these things are all about. Therefore, there is a lot of misguided conjecture about what makes a strong/light board industry wide. If you don’t know where your at, you’ll never know where your going.
We’re really into high performance and use digital scales. Our comp boards, 6’2"x18-1/4x2-1/4 ultralight foam with single 4 bottom/4deck+2/3-4deckpatch and lightened Red-X or Aercor fins come out at around 4lbs-12oz to 5lbs depending on the day (literally). Soon after learning about where the weight gains were coming from, we built our oven and purchased a dedicated microwave. All our team riders feel the subtleties of weight. Check this out, we’ve actually made boards that were LIGHTER which were found to be STRONGER; so we know there is an optimum mixture ratio out there. More “typical” shortboards with 4bottom/4,4deck hit closer to 6lbs. This figure also depends upon who/how the hotcoats went. Actually pretty durable. We found the blanks vary quite a bit as well, probably moisture content so again, depending on the day, we’ll put a shaped blank in the oven. With all that said, we also do “retro” boards with everything thick. Surprisingly, for all the gains in material and weight I’d expect these boards to be stronger than they are… …that’s my two cents.
See what happens when you know where your at… nice work Plus…
OK… you told us what the oven was for, are you going to let on to the microwave’s purpose?
Yeah Rook, the microwave allows us to adjust the epoxy/resin viscosity. By heating it in bursts we can “thin” it out which allows it to saturate into the cloth quickly yet due to the size of the epoxy molecule, the material will not soak into the blank excessively…