1. Your Name:Chris
2. Your Brand Name: Prehistoric
3. How did you hear about us?: Google
4. How was your initial experience at Foam E-Z?:easy, straight forward,
helpful
5. Why did you want to build your own board?:put a personal touch to my Girlfriends
Christmas present
6. Shape of finished board: longboard
7. Size of finished board: Length: 8'8 Nose:19 1/2 Width: 23 1/2 Tail:17 Thickness: 3
8.What blank did you use?: US Blanks 8-9Y PU
9. How was your board building experience?: tedious
10. Did you use videos, books, web, other?: heck ya
11. What videos, books, web, other did you use?: all kinds of Google and YouTube
12. Do you recommend these resources?: Google making your first board and you'll
get everything you need
13. What do you wish you knew going into this project?: better shaping
techniques
14. What would you recommend to someone else for their first time?: don't be
like me, practice somehow, use left over foam from the blank and try
EVERYTHING before doing
15. What tools did you find most useful?: sand paper
16. Where did you run into trouble?: stringer! buying a better planer next time
17.What kind of fin system did you use and why?: single box! easiest and wanted
to do a drill through plug
18. Did you glass the board and what was that experience like?: I thought
glassing was pretty easy, SMELLY, but easy, I used UV resin catalyst so i
could take my time as i never did this before!
19. Where did you shape and glass your board?: in my garage, DON'T do that, dust
EVERYWHERE
20. What type of board do you want to make next?: I have an idea for a hybrid
fish. Will get to it eventually but got to many boards now!
