- Your Name: Neal Bahrman
- Your Brand name: n/a
- How did you hear about us? Yahoo search
- How was your initial experience at Foam E-Z? Good!
- Why did you want to build your own board? The last board I bought was made by guys in a sweat shop in China! I said that’s it, I’m making my own from now on!
- Shape of finished board? 6’8” retro fish
- Size of finished board: Length 6’8” Width 22 ½” Thickness 3”
- What blank did you use? Hollow wooden surfboard – strips over framework
- How was your board building experience? Great! Except the final gloss coat – still wrestling with that!
- Did you use videos, books, web, other? Yes
- What videos, books, web, other did you use? Tree2Sea forum, swaylocks, surfersteve.com
- Do you recommend these resources? yes
- What do you wish you knew going into this project? That Merton’s sb112 takes so freakin long to dry!!!
- What would you recommend to someone else for their first time? Do your homework first, then Go for it!
- What tools did you find most useful? Clamps clamps and more clamps! Belt Sander!
- Where did you run into trouble? Final gloss coat
- What kind of fin system did you use and why? FCS – it's what I had on my other board.
- Did you glass the board and what was that experience like? Yes. It was cool. Turned out nice. But the SB112 resin takes 12-15 hours to set up. That is just WRONG! I don’t like the stuff!
- Where did you shape and glass your board? In my backyard shed
- What type of board do you want to make next? Another hollow wooden surfboard retro fish!
- Your Name: Neal Bahrman
- Your Brand name: n/a
- How did you hear about us? Yahoo search
- How was your initial experience at Foam E-Z? Good!
- Why did you want to build your own board? The last board I bought was made by guys in a sweat shop in China! I said that’s it, I’m making my own from now on!
- Shape of finished board? 6’8” retro fish
- Size of finished board: Length 6’8” Width 22 ½” Thickness 3”
- What blank did you use? Hollow wooden surfboard – strips over framework
- How was your board building experience? Great! Except the final gloss coat – still wrestling with that!
- Did you use videos, books, web, other? Yes
- What videos, books, web, other did you use? Tree2Sea forum, swaylocks, surfersteve.com
- Do you recommend these resources? yes
- What do you wish you knew going into this project? That Merton’s sb112 takes so freakin long to dry!!!
- What would you recommend to someone else for their first time? Do your homework first, then Go for it!
- What tools did you find most useful? Clamps clamps and more clamps! Belt Sander!
- Where did you run into trouble? Final gloss coat
- What kind of fin system did you use and why? FCS – it's what I had on my other board.
- Did you glass the board and what was that experience like? Yes. It was cool. Turned out nice. But the SB112 resin takes 12-15 hours to set up. That is just WRONG! I don’t like the stuff!
- Where did you shape and glass your board? In my backyard shed
- What type of board do you want to make next? Another hollow wooden surfboard retro fish!
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