Compsand Community

[Kit Sidwell]

Great to have ya around mate!

[Karl]

Always found your contributions on Sways real helpful Speedneedle.
Karl

[peteuk]

welcome speedy, i hope things work out for you post sunova,are you going to concentrate soley on sandwhich boards or mix it up with a bit of poly /pu , pete

[afoaf]

Bienvenidos, Yosh.

[speedneedle]

Peteuk

My dear o0ld friend at the lam shop where I worked before going to work in Queensland has started putting stuff aside for me to work on...DINGS!!!

Yes, to get on my feet again I have to start lowly...but I will be aiming to get custom composites out. If it means having to work on polys, sanding, laminiating, whatever.

Josh

[mark venn]

Hi Speedy
Welcome aboard mate, this community is growing daily and without the petty politics and slanging that spoils swaylocks.
Hope you enjoy this as much as we all do.
Good luck
Mark

[Bernhardt]

Yo Compsand crew...
Josh

Welcome Josh!
Forget about those guys over there...
I doubt if 70% of them have yet to make anything much yet a compsand.

Can't wait to see what you got coming out of your skunkworks
There's definitely some interesting things go on with the crew here
alot better to be a smaller operation nowadays anyway..
zero overhead is the key for surviving the times.

[bobmarley]

Aloha all.. checked the place out and seems to be exactly what im lookin for, no bs straight composite surfboad building  

[Kit Sidwell]

Welcome Bob!

Yep, over here it's no trollers no cry...

[wouter]

Aloha all.. checked the place out and seems to be exactly what im lookin for, no bs straight composite surfboad building  

aint that just the best!!
wouter

[paul cannon]

i was thinking of inventing a new troll for here so you guys dont get bored
so you can argue and sing laurels of the power of compsand 

hey speedy email me bro

[Bernhardt]

i was thinking of inventing a new troll for here so you guys dont get bored
so you can argue and sing laurels of the power of compsand 

hey speedy email me bro

Believe me
I'd love to me that crazy guy over there in person one day..
sometimes I wonder if it's Bill just stirring up things to have laugh.
I wouldn't put it by him..

[Kit Sidwell]

Those threads are definitely entertaining!
Some classic stuff gets said.... just hope people don't take it too personally
Otay is hilarious, gotta admire the wit!
I wouldn't want to get into that crap here though

[huie]

Those threads are definitely entertaining!
Some classic stuff gets said.... just hope people don't take it too personally
Otay is hilarious, gotta admire the wit!
I wouldn't want to get into that crap here though

  it wont happen here if we dont feed it
  but whats wrong whith haveing a good laugh
you will notice it locked when some serious questions got asked
 but have a think about this it was heading for 10,000 hits
this could only be good for the web site
but make no mistake there are a few niglers
& doubters on here just the same .

[Marco]

Howdy from sunny SD.
Just joined after lurking for a few days. Anyway, I've been a member over on Tree to Sea and lurking on sway's (I see Roy has people posting for him over there, Ha. I'm interested in hearing the Olo ride reports.
I've just completed a HWS that I'm waiting on the epoxy cure before I test drive. (Also waiting on my fin rash before the Doc'll let me go out again. :-)
Kooked out on Sunday @ LJ shores and walked off the nose of the board. Caught a side bite to the septum.



It's 7'6" - 18" x 24" x 16" x 3.75" around 20 lbs of Home Depot redwood garden lath. Single 8 1/2" Frye Flex.
 
I know it's not a green as Roy's method, but I was thinking of experimenting with a Compsand/Parallel Profile fish.
My idea is this build an inverse rocker table, lay down a glued up 1/8" redwood panel, wetted out 3.2 oz, sheet of 1" EPS, wetted out 3.2 oz. , sheet of 1" EPS, wetted out 3.2 oz., glued up 1/8" redwood panel. breather around the edges, bag and vac.
Then once that has cured, cut out the template, and glue on higher density foam rails, shape and wrap rails in CF tape. Then glass the whole shebang with 6 oz.
Question I have is, is 1/8" too thick for the wood panels? How thin can you go with 1.5# EPS as the core?
Also, what effect would it have if I didn't cut out the butt crack? just left it as a square tail? about 11" wide. Old school fish rocker and twin keels though?
 
Thanks,
Mark (Marco) from SD.