Tools
Tools that are essential for building a Hollowsurfboard…
Pencil…
Tape Measure…
The best Utility Knife you can buy, always with a very sharp blade…!!!..
Jig Saw, they’re all about the same…
Small, hand held router with a “Flush Trim” router bit…
Block Plane or Surform…
Drill & drill bits…
Belt Sander - I like the 3" x 21" Bosch or Ryobi…
Orbital 1/4 Sheet Sander or plenty of elbow grease sanding…
Spring clamps - At least a dozen…
Fine Tooth Handsaw… I only use Japanese “Pull Saws”…
A Table Saw
and maybe a Surfacing Planer
If your lumber yard is any good, and you have any kind of working relationship with them, they will have both of those that they can use to cut and mill your wood strips that’ll be your deck and bottom skins…
If the lumber yard can’t do that, most Door Shops will have that stuff in back and can help you out…Again explain what you are doing and make them part of the process…It will save you from having to buy those two big tools, unless you really want them…They do come in handy for lots of other things around the house though…Just my opinion…
You’ will use a lot of masking tape, don’t buy really cheap tape, it just doesn’t stretch…You don’t need that more expensive “Blue Tape”…Just get a high quality professional grade tape…
A roll of non-stretch “Filament Tape” is great on the stubborn areas…
Have fun …!!!..
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