How Custom Surfboards Are Handmade

Paul J. Schmidt, owner of Paul Surf, makes and sells surfboards. Each one is made completely by hand and takes about 30 hours of skilled labor. His complex process involves covering a foam base with layers of resin and plexiglass to create safe, functional boards.
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How Custom Surfboards Are Handmade

[@nekosayaka]

Seeing the color being applied is very satisfying.

[@jayffeefernandez59]

Watching this while surfing the internet

[@ArtByAndrei1995]

Very beautiful 🎨🎨🎨🎨 thank you for sharing 💯💝💝 keep it up 💯❤️

[@snakesnake6799]

0:42 . Good dame November is taking its toll on me, I think I may fail. 🤣

[@PlutoKaron]

An I the only one getting goosebumps seeing him sanding/cutting the foam 😬??? I can't be in the same room as styrofoam without getting goosebumps from hell like when people scratch a blackboard. Just thinking about the sound kills me 😳

[@thatonedjguy]

Beautiful work! Can’t wait to start shaping

[@campervanbug7658]

New countertop ideas for my van🎉

[@yairval9]

if this was made in japan in would take 4 months per board , because the skill takes centuries to master

[@YTMcraft]

This is amazing

[@mistyannmcmillan1739]

I can’t believe it I was just thinking about learning how to surf 😂😽💦

[@user-gg3ft7yj2h]

OMG, ME TOO! Like literally, I just thought of learning surfing 😳😂

[@jasonlewis7259]

Same and I live no place near ocean

[@PandaFoxArtist]

I feel a toothed squeegee would be far better. It helps with breaking the surface tension, thus a more even coat. (@/Stone coat countertops anyone?)

[@Surfmus]

It'll break the 4 oz and 6 oz fiber glass cloth.

[@jacobclark89]

I need advice installing a bow eye in a epoxy foam raven paddle board. I plan to pull it behind a electric recumbent bicycle , with a yeti cooler and some ice and drinks on top while towing, I plan to have two bicycle wheels at the back. I have 4 tie points up front but need a tie point at the very front and it has to be strong. My plan is to either drill a horizontal hole large enough to glue a piece of carbon fiber tube with like a 6" set back from the tip from side to side of the board or drill a long hole at the bow to glue in a stainless eye bolt. Can someone please give me some suggestions please. Thanks

[@queenjoyfulyouttubechannel]

Congratulations to the person making these surfboards they but there hard work in effort on making them so beautiful 👍🙌👏 I always want to surf but I'm gonna get a chance one day

[@clementzashu9338]

How the mix for the color is made ? Like epoxy and paint mixed ? Of specific epoxy already made ?

[@marleyboy7732]

I know the guy is striving for perfection in his boards when he stares down the center of it. But I wonder. Could a small bump in the board really have a big effect on a person's performance?

[@masonshucart7055]

Yes, dents and dings (which include bumps) on a board affects the drag and currents traveling along the board. I am not sure about tiny tiny ones but think of it as a dimple for water to slow the board down or affect your turning.

[@josephvargas7409]

Most wouldn’t notice it, most performance short boards are made with very light fiber glass. They pressure dent pretty easily. I’ve had boards that were dented all over, I repaired holes in. And they still rode just fine.

[@kmandport]

Is there a reason these can’t be cnc milled?

[@pedroavilez2003]

Nice

[@truckstreestoys]

I like how he's using 3M dust mask cartridges for high VOC work....

[@lemmykilmister545]

Explain in layman's terms please? Are those cartridges not good enough for the particle filtration?

[@truckstreestoys]

@@lemmykilmister545 the round pink cartridges (3M 2091) are for dust but he was working with epoxy and should use an organic vapor cartridge like the 3M 6001

[@jaceware8808]

@@lemmykilmister545 VOC = fumes. The dust mask do not filter out the fumes from the epoxy. The guy is ruining his lungs.

[@Surfmus]

@@jaceware8808 That's polyester resin on PU blank. Not even Warren Buffer will spill this amount in Epoxy resin.

[@Surfmus]

@@truckstreestoys That's Polyester resin on PU blank. Not even a rich person will waste so much epoxy resin. Not even for the video.

[@Surfmus]

I love how they wasted so much resin for the video only but in real life some glassers do not waste as much. This is polyester resin which is cheaper. I would love to see the same waste with epoxy resin. Way too much money. I save as much resin as possible.

[@abbey7903]

I want one pls

[@brodeyleembruggen9910]

🏄🏼

[@jennglow4647]

😃

[@ordinarydragon8764]

Nice-!! Xdd

[@Fister-kw5un]

Shame on these people, they are making profits. Wait, am I doing this Democrat thing right?

[@thunderb00m]

WTF is wrong with you !?

[@alwkw3783]

No.