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Material: Cardboard surfboard- very interesting *PIC*
By:Malcolm Schweizer
Date: 11/12/2009, 10:31 pm

Hello all,

I just happened across this site. This guy builds a geodesic frame of cardboard and then 'glasses over it to make a cardboard-framed surfboard. The result is a cool translucent board. He apparently stretches pre-soaked fiberglass over the frame, which sounds to me very messy and difficult, but it seems to work.

Perhaps it would be difficult to design a kayak this way, but it just shows what one can do when they throw away traditional thought and get creative. Actually now that I think about it, I guess this is technically a skin-on-frame surfboard!

Check it out. http://www.sheldrake.net/cardboards/

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Material: Cardboard surfboard- very interesting *PIC*
Malcolm Schweizer -- 11/12/2009, 10:31 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 11/13/2009, 11:43 am
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Malcolm Schweizer -- 11/13/2009, 1:11 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 11/13/2009, 3:56 pm
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Reg_B -- 11/13/2009, 9:26 pm
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Malcolm Schweizer -- 11/14/2009, 3:31 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 11/15/2009, 12:34 am
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Reg_B -- 11/15/2009, 7:03 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 11/16/2009, 12:28 am
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Reg_B -- 11/16/2009, 10:27 am
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Bill Hamm -- 11/17/2009, 1:03 am
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Greg H -- 11/18/2009, 11:57 am
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Bill Hamm -- 11/19/2009, 1:55 am
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Bill Hamm -- 11/13/2009, 11:11 pm