“Recycle This!!” is complete, or at least finished enough. “Recycle This!!” is a surf board that I made from left over surfboard card board shipping boxes, Kroger’s shopping bags, and epoxy resin.
The finish on “Recycle This!!” is rough in places, especially along the sides of the board. Most of the irregularities stem from seams from wrapping the shopping bag skin over the cardboard core. During construction the board fell and the nose broke off; I grafted a new nose on the board. There are some irregularities near where the new nose was grafted. In some places the shopping bag seams and other parts of the shopping bag skin didn’t adhere to the card board core. I had cut off those parts of the skin and replace them with patches.
I glossed over some irregularities with epoxy, a lot of epoxy. That was expensive, time consuming and made the board quite heavy. I think a board carved from solid oak might be lighter.
This was an interesting way to spend part of my off season. My wife will be able to use the garage again, I won’t make tons of dust, and the garage won’t smell like resin any more, the whole family will no doubt be very happy.
One of the original goals was to build a board for under $10, I totally blew that budget, well over $100, most of cost was resin. If you want a good board buy one of the many quality boards out there, the Walker F-18 is pretty amazing. If you want to learn a little about surfboards, want to learn about building them, or like to tinker then this might be a project for you. I have some other ideas for building boards but I think they can wait for next year.
The finishing table
A couple of patches, the white patches is a micro-balloon filler mixture.
The white vertical line is from sanding through the paper
Here you can see where I sanded through the paper on the bottom of the board. The wrinkles over micro-balloon epoxy filler made an interesting pattern.
Here's "Recycle This!!" and The Walker F-18
Hybrid Mode
