Building a Board from Scratch?

EFOIL.builders Foils & Boards
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To those who have created their own board, what materials did you use, and how did you do it?

All of us aspiring builders appreciate any information you can provide!

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Haven’t build my board yet, but i’ve read many people’s posts about it…
Most of the people use insulation foam blocks (eps or xps) glued together and shaped by a cnc machine or by hand with rasps, hot wire cutter,etc.
Then they put fiberglass or carbon fibre on it with a wet layup technique.
For mor information about surfboard building i recommend you check out the fiberglass florida channel on youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTdtewbgs-puvfkvdIFyW2g or the Andrew w channel https://www.youtube.com/user/andrewwan1977/featured
I hope this helps

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Thank you, I’ll make sure to check those out. For the posts you’ve read, what dimensions have you seen/what size do you plan on making your board?

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If you are in the states check out green light surf supply , I use them for building my boards

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I plan on making my board about 1500mm x 700mm x 175mm approx.
It depends on how experienced you are…
I’m a total beginner with surfing so i’m making a large displacement board…
About 700mm wide by 150mm deep is the standard the length changes to less than half of this even…

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Thank you, I’m a beginner as well, so I’ll probably model my board with dimensions close to yours.

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I’m in the process of building my board which finished dimensions will be about 1500x660x150. I used XPS foam. A way for rough shaping that I have not seen anyone on here really do is use a projector to show a model of your board, or one you would like to imitate and then trace it onto the board. That ensures a symmetrical shape. It is easier to do than printing our large templates. I started my learning process by making a wakesurfing board. I would highly recommend building something more normal/simple first, so you can get some of the mistakes over with. I ended up restarting half way through my first surf board. I messed it up beyond repair. I feel more confident now about the foil board now.

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I think I will use my schools CNC machine to cut the foam, that would take away the need for tracing, and would ensure that everything is symmetrical. I will probably model my board after the build made by Max Maker, but possibly using different dimensions.