I've decided I'm going to build a board

Good luck man! Personally I thought the actually shaping of a surfboard was pretty simple but glassing whooped my a$$. After shaping it made me realize how much time and effort goes into every board*.


*excluding china made pop outs

 

great. go for it then. use sawhorses. don't know why you would but.... whatever.

$15 bucks is too much for stands? or are they too hard for you to build

just grab your moms potato peeler and get to shaping. post pics please

 

they might not even wear masks in china but they have shaping racks.

 

Yes and you can read the second sentence too. AO is looking out for you and has shaped more boards than you have Star Trek action figures (over 1k). Then again, everything you aspire for is mediocre so the fixation on sawhorses makes sense.

 

simmer down little cosby. i know you don't really have Star Trek action figures.... they're Battlestar Galaxtica! way better

'they' said sawhorses would work... great. so will a potato peeler. just like how you can actually ride a bike on bare rims. go for it with sawhorses. please.... please.... please post pics!

 

seems like sanding the board's rails would be difficult on sawhorses. I also can't imaging shaping without the waist high lights...they show most all the imperfections in the sanding job.

anyway, what's the name of your logo going to be? Half the fun, for me, was designing and printing the logos. I did all my friends graphics on my sh*tty old computer. I guess you could do it in ms paint, but some sort of photoshop (elements, illustrator, corel, whatever) is exponentially better. I bought some standard rice paper from the art store and it worked perfectly. I actually got really good at it (unfortunately, I can't find the disk with the photos of my work).

the only hard part is if you don't want the stringer showing through the laminate (logo). It involves making a stencil/mask, rubber cement, white spray paint and some finesse. PM me if you need any help.

 

My guess is BCN isn't trying to start his own label, and doesn't really care about being professional about this, I think he wants to take a "hack" at it and see what he's capable of with limited resources. He can still put out a board that floats, I mean we're talking foam here, let him have his fun, and when he realizes how much more difficult it is then he thought then let him come running back asking for tips on doing it better next time. It's his 1st build, give him a break.

 

"BCN Surfboards"...no, a little too acronym-y

 

please waterbaby... quit saying 'waist high lights'. BCN isn't a pigmey... i hope. and who on earth uses rubber cement for lams? unless you have screen printed lams stringers will show. if you run rice paper through your printer it will be ok with darker colors, if your worried about the stringer showing. just be sure to give a quick light spray with acrylic sealer or they can fade to purple.

don't go getting all offended waterbaby....im just saying.


here is a better view of racks BCN. just make em'

 

good man... use screws not nails.

 

The thing is, he's just trying to go against the grain in an anti-establishment, non-conformist fashion. We've all seen this before in the unloved, over-privileged outcasts of society.

 

So after you make dinner in your easy bake oven you're busting out your Fisher Price toolset?

 

LOL! funny funny.

 

waist high, stomach high, rack high, whatever...I think everybody got the picture.

the rubber cement is for the mask, not the laminate. I won't go into detail, but I have a technique that will not show the stringer, even with home ink jet lams. I never sprayed my lams with acrylic and they never faded.

 

you also have no clue what your talking about. it's cute you think your way is better then what everybody, everywhere does.


rubber cement!!LOL!!!!

 

tell me more waterbaby. post pics please

 

Bro, I applaud any and all snappy comebacks that have any wit behind them. Yours are less than weak and smack of a nerdy creep that trolls high school dances sporting a members only jacket and a "cool" skinny mustache.