Part 1: High performance Mini Simmons from Insulation foam

Got a good start on the board today, got the outline traced on the the foam sheets and cut them out. It will be a stringerless XPS Epoxy high performance mini Simmons, and the dimensions should be 6'x22"x3" with a 14" tail.

Final thickness once I stacked together the 4 sheets was about 3 inches...

Should float me reeeeeally well, eh?

Next I glued 2 sheets together. I decided against gluing them all together at once after reading on www.swaylocks.com that people had trouble with the sheets sliding around. I'll glue on another sheet tonight. I put a board with a rocker I like underneath these 2 sheets and then put sand bags on top so once the glue dries it will have the same rocker shape...

Used gorilla wood glue...

Taped around some of the edges where I saw gaps...

While they were drying I started making the fins from some scrap plywood...

Super stoked so far, should be interesting to see how this crazy experiment turns out. The blank will end up costing around $30, which is about half what a real surfboard blank costs. Figured I would practice on the insulation foam rather then screwing up a nice blank, if this board turns out good maybe my next board will be from a real blank.

Later!

-James