Friday, October 5, 2012

BELIS Surfboards by Ben Roulant






1.  Your Name: Ben Roulant

2.  Your Brand Name:  Belis

3.  How did you hear about us?  Your website

4.  How was your initial experience at Foam E-Z?  Pretty nice!

5.  Why did you want to build your own board?  I wanted to have a go at it, a cheap board, and couldn't find anything like I wanted on the market.

6.  Shape of finished board:  old school fish

7.  Size of finished board:  Length : 5'8" Width : 20.5" Thickness : 2.75"

8.  What blank did you use? foam



9.  How was your board building experience?  Interesting, but hard!

10.  Did you use videos, books, web, other?  Yes lots of videos.

11.  What videos, books, web, other did you use?  All YouTube men!

12.  Do you recommend these resources? yes!!! yes yes!

13.  What do you wish you knew going into this project?  Training on glassing on template before going on the actual board!

 14.  What would you recommend to someone else for their first time?  Lot's of training and take your time.

15.  What tools did you find most useful?  Sand paper (hand)

16.  Where did you run into trouble?  Laminating the board!

17.  What kind of fin system did you use and why?  FCS, the easiest to put in.



18.  Did you glass the board and what was that experience like?  HARD

19.  Where did you shape and glass your board?  In my garage!

20.  What type of board do you want to make next:? DON'T know at all yet!

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