Friday, May 29, 2009

Coming Soon: Mid-Simmons Board ...




Hot on the heels of my 11'6" wave eater, is this 8'10" mid-length Simmons longboard thing. A little more fussing, art, then glass (with glass-on keels). Like my last two boards, the lam will be epoxy (C3D), the hot & gloss will be Resin-X (also C3D). The foam is XPS, built from a recylced source (http://www.conigliaro.com/). The stringer is plywood, selected from a dumpster in Cambridge.
For those who haven't tried Resin-X (and that's almost all of you), it's worth experience. For the artist, garage or low volume builder, it is clean and easy to work with. Most of the learning curve is in deciding how much to thin out a particular layer.
For those who have been kind enough to ask, this one is also not for sale.