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Re: Material: Cardboard surfboard- very interestin
By:Bill Hamm
Date: 11/13/2009, 11:43 am
In Response To: Material: Cardboard surfboard- very interesting *PIC* (Malcolm Schweizer)

: 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/

Actually it's like home made honeycomb, very interesting idea.

Btw, honeycomb is much like using a foam or for that matter wood core with glass skins on each side. The process tends to be very light as most of the core is composed of air.

Bill H.

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