Enter the honeycomb! CNC milled honeycomb

anybody interested; i tried one of these...i wouldn't bother w/em imho.

 

I use tgis witha combo used mouth mount I got on sale. Its really great for pleasuring urself.

 

Others will disagree with me on the performance part, but handshaped EPS from a close tolerance blank, with epoxy is a great start toward that ultimate goal.

As for the Turbo Tunnel fin... I've tried it. Not a huge fan. But I'm no fin guru, that's for sure.

 

um, surfing.
what else can they be used for?

 

fun with ur ding-a-ling of course

 

The NZ woody looks heavy. 10 lb. shortboards ride like bricks. Wonder what wood he is using? Will it give me splinters when I crash? Appears that much work needs to be done before it is a legit product.
And the AU honeydew looks like an exercise in graphic design before function. Be sweet if it didn't crease. But all that flex stuff is confusing my meager ration of grey matter. The site looks like art school student spew.

 

Saw it a few years ago. I like it, there's a fair anount of waste though.

 

Roy, not busting your chops or anything, but out of true curiosity - when you deposited "The Check" was there something you purchased or did right afterwards? Take a trip or buy a car?

 

Paid a debt or two, otherwise 'steady as she goes'.

 

[video=youtube_share;P5YqC-GiW0Q]http://youtu.be/P5YqC-GiW0Q[/video]

 

Prudent.

Congratulations, by the way. Selling a surfboard for that type of coin is a feat as great as landing on the moon. One day I hope to encounter one of them myself. Would love to have a good look at your boards.

 

Theres alot of difference between decreasing a pound or two of weight in your body and the same about of weight in the surfboard. I'm not big on featherweight boards, but body weight and surfboard weight have different impact on surfing.

 

Doubt it. Total added weight makes a difference perhaps, but the pound or two one loses by lightening up a board is insignificant, I believe. Lose 10 lbs body weight, and it is an enormous advantage; been there. Like you, Im not much for featherweight boards either. I just got rid of the last of my light boards; I see no use for them at my stage of surfing and age. I was in PR in 1st week December and was out at Tres Palmas. The guys with the light boards could NOT catch a wave due to offshore winds. My board was a heavier board-caught all the waves I wanted.
Having said that, if doing "airs" is important to a boarder (note I did not say surfer), then I suppose an air weight board is desirable. But then, they should take up kite boarding if airs are important, not surf.
just opinion

 

But board weight doesn't matter?

 

Good point; well made. SMALL differences do not; large do. Believe me, the board I had rented was a heavy gunny board. Additionally, I am not small person, average in weight. The board I had, PLUS my own weight, allowed for much more efficient paddling than the guys out there with small light boards; I could get in early. They tried to go late, often going over the falls. Funny to watch, but not fun to experience.

 

It's weird because it seems to me, intuitively, that board weight should matter less when you are paddling, since your body weight is distributed across most of the board surface and isn't moving much (at least relative to when a surfer is up and riding). But it definitely seems like (from observation) board weight makes a big difference in hard offshores.

 

Yup, I get it. I think of a heavy board as an oil tanker- hard to to halt. Light boats stop on a dime.

 

That "momentum" that heavier boards have has plenty of advantages. I like the added weight in two scenarios... big wave boards and logs. My big wave boards are standard PU/PE, glassed a little heavier (6+4/4) with thicker stringers and glossed/polished. My old school logs are 6+6/6, fin patch, triple stringers, glossed and polished. The big wave boards take a lickin', cuts through the chop, and has great drive down the line in big surf. On the log it's all about noseriding for me and the extra weight helps the board stay locked in when you're on the tip, and helps glide over the slopey spots without having to walk it back between sections.

I like lightweight boards for everything else... HPSBs, fish, alt shapes... I like the quick responsiveness of lighter boards, especially in smaller surf, but also in waves up to just overhead. And when I say lightweight, I mean boards in the 5-6 lb range... EPS/Epoxy, Fusion boxes, and foam core fins.

 

Hey Mr. Roy. While that is a nice video of a cool wood board, I was expecting a little more. That thing just lays there...

Kinda dull. Like this...

[video=youtube;yKlU_0g-dag]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKlU_0g-dag[/video]