1. Your Name: Alphonso Olmos
2. Your Brand name: AOP Surfboards
3. How did you hear about us? I don’t remember.
4. How was your initial experience at Foam E-Z? Always good.
5. Why did you want to build your own board? Because I wanted and needed to.
6. Shape of finished board? Various
7. What blank did you use? Clark foam and US Blanks
8. How was your board building experience? Challenging.
9. Did you use videos, books, web, other? I didn’t at first then I thought I should, then I watched a video, then I realized I liked my way better, however watching videos helped confirm some questions.
10. What videos, books, web, other did you use? I watched John Carpenters video on shaping but found it too personal to his method, I also thought I needed to be fast. Which was a mistake. I realized that shaping for me like most things are personal and should come from the heart, mind, and internal feeling of what feels right.
11. Do you recommend these resources? Yes and no. Do what you need to do.
12. What do you wish you knew going into this project? Nothing.
13. What would you recommend to someone else for their first time? Do not watch a video first, Take your time, Shape from within.
14. What tools did you find most useful? Patience.
15. Where did you run into trouble? Start to finish
16. What kind of fin system did you use and why? FCS, my focus is the shape, fins are secondary to me at right now.
17. Did you glass the board and what was that experience like? I did not, wish I could.
18. Where did you shape and glass your board? Shaped my first couple boards in my back yard, now in my garage, had 2 or 3 glassed by a guy named Steve near the old foam ez location.
19. What type of board do you want to make next? A good board.
20. Feel free to add any other input or interesting information you’d like… Almost everything to make these boards was purchased through foam ez
Thanks for all the help.
