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[paul cannon]

balsa still makes the lightest and infinitly stronger board
thats the 4 pound boards you can trampoline on
i think everyone should make at least one

[goomba271]

Hi -

The program at Cerritos College was geared toward do-it-yourselfers.  What they emphasized was ease of assembly.  No piecing together planks, building rails, etc.  "Anyone can do it and it doesn't require a lot of time" was how it was presented.  No claims were made at the demo about being the most beautiful, strongest or anything like that.  The rails on the WMD blanks were 5 lb/cu ft density polyurethane foam with EPS inside the stringers.  After pinching the 5 lb foam and digging my fingernails in it, I believe it is as strong as they claim.

Greg Loehr and Ken Ebert both have enough composite knowledge to make extreme cutting edge boards but they recognize price limits in the marketplace.  They both have been very supportive of backyard guys.  They both had a part in the Bert/Firewire thing as well.

A current new bamboo veneer board by Gary Young that I saw at the Wetsand surf shop in Ventura, CA, US had XPS rails that were not wrapped with veneer but painted to resemble bamboo.