PREHISTORIC Surfboards by Chris

 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!