Shaping and Glassing a Surfboard at Home

Shaping and glassing boards in my garage!
#shapingsurfboards #glassingsurfboards #makingsurfboards #resinart #epoxyresin
Shirts Hats and Boards on our website!
- www.rockandseagarageboardshop...
Insta
- / rockandseagarageboardshop
Sub-Reddit Shaping forum/community to Share the Stoke and Ask Questions
- / rockandseagbshop
Safety Gear___________________________________
3M respirator - Love this one, definitely recommend
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3M Dust filters
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3M Organic Vapor Filters
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Rice Paper for Logos __________________________
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Fin Marking Jig_______________________________
- foamez.com/product/casica-fin...
Glassing Tools________________________________
Cheap Yellow Squeegees I like
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Hot Coat Brushes_____________________________
3” Brushes I Use
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Sanders_____________________________________
Porter Cable Random Orbital sander:
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Dewalt Sander
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Festool R0150 - Ultimate Sander!
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Flexpad 8"
- greenlightsurfsupply.com/prod...
Mirka Sanding Screen - My recommendation, does the best job with dust control when using a vacuum
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Festool Sand paper
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Vacuum Hose
- foamez.com/product/slinky-hose/
Planers__________________________________
Wen Planer
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Makita Planer
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Measuring Calipers _______________________
- foamez.com/product/e-z-scisso...
Hand Plane______________________________
Stanley Hand Plane
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David Combie Hand plane
- foamez.com/product/david-comb...
Hobby Hand plane
- fiberglasssource.com/products...
Shop Vacuum___________________________
Shop Vac I Use
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Scissors_______________________________
Carbon Shears
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Fiberglass Scissors I like
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Electric scissors I like
- Not as nice as ultra fancy electric scissors but works great for the hobbyist
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Air Brushing Tools/Supplies_______________
Air Brush Spray Gun
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Acrylic Paint thinner
- makes acrylic paint less viscous for easy use air brushing
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Airbrush cleaner for acrylic paint
- * definitely use after every use or your HVLP air gun will get clogged up fast!
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Sticker Cutter - Cameo 4
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Sticker Material I Use
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Epoxy resin ___________________
- slow cure if your new to glassing, gives you more time to work on the board
- greenlightsurfsupply.com/coll...
- fast cure if you feel confident and can laminate a board fast
- greenlightsurfsupply.com/coll...
Fiberglass Cloth ________________
- * cheapest out there for budget builds but still great quality!
- shapersupply.com/collections/...

[@ZacharyBrown]

Heck ya! That turned out sick! Makes me want to make one!

[@RockandSeaGarageBoardShop]

Heck ya man, such a fun process, it’s just super cool to surf something you made

[@kevintyrer45]

Go for it. You will never see a board in the same way ever agoin.

[@spaceman1553]

Dude just found your video while trying to learn how to shape a board. Love the vibe so dope board came out fantastic

[@RockandSeaGarageBoardShop]

Thanks man, surfing boards you shaped with your own hands is so stinking fun, it’s such a neat experience few people get to enjoy, stoked to hear your going to give it a try👌🏻🏄🏼‍♂️

[@damirlorca1298]

just your garage but i am shure that in some time would be a shop!

[@RockandSeaGarageBoardShop]

Hey thanks Damir, pretty fun little work space! It’s nothing too fancy but very fun all the same👍. If you check out newer vids I have retractable light bars for shaping and a sweet new dust collection system piped to my planer and sander now, very fun projects!

[@noahmckay7952]

cool board

[@RockandSeaGarageBoardShop]

Thanks man! She is going to be a fun one!!

[@MethanWeber]

Rock & Sea board shop blowing up!

[@RockandSeaGarageBoardShop]

🏄🏼‍♂️✊🏻✊🏻

[@jonathans.3128]

Great video man. Am working on my very first surfboard at the moment. I have two questions: where did you get the Carbon Fiber reinforcements and also what did you print the pictures that were glassed on on?

[@RockandSeaGarageBoardShop]

Hey heck ya man, the first one is the very most special! Here is the carbon fiber “vector net” i use shapersupply.com/collections/vector-net/products/xp-227-vector-net-reinforcement, you just use your normal printer at home and use this rice paper. When you glass it the paper turns translucent and you can only see what you printed shapersupply.com/collections/rice-paper/products/rice-paper. Super cool

[@mathewyoo]

great video! you should make a step by step video for how to make a shortboard it's so hard to find one for the entire process!! i would love to make my own

[@RockandSeaGarageBoardShop]

Hey thanks man, its pretty fun making vids, its fun to be able to look back at what you did and remember fun times and board builds. And hey I really ought to do that, I have been meaning to do more of a detailed explanation vid. Well shoot consider it on the list of upcoming vids, and hey good luck man! I absolutely recommend shaping a board, it can be frustrating at first but its so fun and special to surf SOMETHING YOU MADE WITH YOUR OWN HANDS!

[@mathewyoo]

@@RockandSeaGarageBoardShop thanks for the response! i look forward to watching the videos!!

[@kevintyrer45]

I'd love to see the board being surfed. Cool shape. I'm busy with my 7th board now. Just finished sanding the blank. Next fin boxes & glassing. Doing my take on a high performance hipto. I'll call it my hipo ;) Sorry Crag Anderson.

[@RockandSeaGarageBoardShop]

Nice Kevin, 7 boards in is a big deal, and shaping a hipto, that shape is super cool! I’m working to film myself or friends their the boards in future videos, have a few fun ones in the works!

[@kevintyrer45]

@@RockandSeaGarageBoardShop Thank you. I haven't filmed the process, but have got a bunch of still pics. I'm gonna put a slide show video together in the near future. I'll shear it with you all.

[@RockandSeaGarageBoardShop]

Send me a link or tag me somehow, would love to see your boards. For me it’s like admiring someone’s art, it’s so interesting and beautiful to see someone form something from their imagination

[@miguelm.cassiano63]

Hello amazing video! I've watched loads of videos of people glassing their boards and in most of them you can see the line of the bottom fiberglass wrap in the deck. How to you glass it so that it becomes seamsless? Thanks

[@RockandSeaGarageBoardShop]

Hey happy to help! So your talking about seeing the edge of fiberglass cloth that has been wrapped around the board? So on clear glass jobs the fiberglass itself becomes translucent and you won’t be able to see the “lap line” (edge of the cloth that has wrapped around the rail). There will be a slight bump at the lap line when you glass that side of the board, you have to sand down the lap line transition slightly to get it perfectly smooth. On Boards with tinted resin the darker colored rails you see are actually the tinted cloth wrapping around. This is called a “cut lap”! Not sure if I exactly answered your question?!

[@miguelm.cassiano63]

@@RockandSeaGarageBoardShop That answered it perfectly! Thank you very much!!!

[@viktordaniyelyan7781]

Awesome work!! Getting ready to shape my first board, similar to this one, a 7'0 x 21-1/2" x 2-3/4" long fish with swallow tail, and really would like to set it as quad but struggle a bit finding the right measurements for fin placement. Was wondering how far out did you place your front and back fins? just followed the template on your phone? Much appreciated!

[@RockandSeaGarageBoardShop]

Hey good luck that’s awesome your shaping a board! I really like these dimensions for quad and thruster. images.app.goo.gl/rRF7FqgsHVVjBzH2A. Hey like and subscribe to help grow the channel!

[@viktordaniyelyan7781]

@@RockandSeaGarageBoardShop Done and done! My fav channel, love the vibe! Appreciate it! That's what I've been wanting to go by, but based on fin marker that you use (I have that one too) the marking for rear fins start at 2" from the rails, which confused the hell out of me haha. Thanks again for all the work on this channel, always hyped for new vids! Cheers

[@user-ku1tr1tp3n]

very very good job. I want to it you makes surfboard.

[@RockandSeaGarageBoardShop]

Hey thanks man I appreciate it!! You should give it a try, surfing a board you made is such a cool experience and so rewarding

[@franciscojosegarciagarcia4124]

hello...in the lamination process...is the resin mixed with paraffin?? Have you sanded after the laminate to give the second layer??? thank you very much greetings

[@RockandSeaGarageBoardShop]

Hey great question! For the lamination stage of glassing a board, you don’t use resin with a wax additive, paraffin or “additive F” for epoxy. The wax additive is mixed in with the resin in the hot coat layer, when you sand a hot coat the wax gives the board a really nice sanded glossy finish. You don’t absolutely need to sand the board after laminating it, the hot coat layer will adhere well to the lamination without sanding, that being said I do typically sand down any sharp edges or high spots along the cut lap, where the fiberglass cloth overlaps top and bottom

[@RockandSeaGarageBoardShop]

Hope that was helpful, feel free to ask for any clarifications!!

[@foamhacker6396]

Nice board. How do you personally plane eps?

[@RockandSeaGarageBoardShop]

Hey thanks, EPS is a little trickier to work with but i love it. I use a makita KP0810, it does a great job, eats up foam like a monster. One critique is that for whatever reason EPS builds up a lot of static electricity on this planer more so than other planers. Makita KP0810 7.5 Amp 3-1/4-Inch... www.amazon.com/dp/B001ASDU7G?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

[@fredi332]

Hei, what a nice board came out, what rocker measurments you guys have? the nose and tail?

[@RockandSeaGarageBoardShop]

Sorry I’m just getting back to you! 3 3/4 rocker on the nose, 1 1/8 12 inches back from the nose. 1 7/8 on the tail and 6/8 inches forward from the tail!!

[@fredi332]

@@RockandSeaGarageBoardShop Cheers for that, keep up the good work, you doing well.

[@wan8767]

Hey man what do you use to make your graphics I'm trying to make my own, btw sick board I love it 🔥

[@RockandSeaGarageBoardShop]

Hey thanks man, turned out super fun! I use rice paper and just use my everyday printer! I have a whole Vid explaining it if it helps 👍👍 kzbin.info/www/bejne/jYScgnSpoJeffa8

[@wan8767]

@@RockandSeaGarageBoardShop thanks man appreciat it :)

[@user-nw5st5fj3s]

how much epoxy you averagely use making a surfboard (short)?

[@RockandSeaGarageBoardShop]

You could probably get away with much less, but to be safe i always end up mixing a lot of epoxy, you use more when glassing 3 layers of cloth and 2 on bottom. I mix 40 oz epoxy for each lamination (both top and bottom), and then i mix another 40 for each hot coat. 🙌🏻🙌🏻. So overall i give myself 160 oz per 6’6 board

[@thomasahern4894]

Where did I you get the blank

[@RockandSeaGarageBoardShop]

If you live in SoCal you can get them at a handful of local surf board factories, if you live elsewhere you can have them shipped from a few companies, I recommend Greenlight and foamez , greenlightsurfsupply.com/collections/surfboard-blanks, www.foamez.com/product-category/eps-surfboardsup-blanks/. You can buy the blanks individually or buy a whole starter build kit that has everything you need. I have a whole build kit tutorial on my channel you can check out

[@landerdeprez2390]

Where did you get your fin boxes from?

[@RockandSeaGarageBoardShop]

I get most of my fin boxes from shaper supply shapersupply.com/collections/futures-fin-boxes, i also bought my futures fin box instal kit from these guys. For any boards i make for people i use true futures fin boxes, but for personal boards i buy these upsurf knock offs, only $10 for 3 fin boxes! These are probably made in the very same factory as the true futures boxes i reckon just off brand UP100 3pcs/Set Future Tri Fins Box Fins for Surfing SUP Screw Surfboard Surf Fins Plugs Set Black smile.amazon.com/dp/B0785D7L19/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_fabc_TlQWFb7XZ94RR

[@ZAGSurfboards]

Dude, do you not throw resin under the decals? Would think it would stop them delamming in the future...

[@RockandSeaGarageBoardShop]

Ya your right, most times i roll back the cloth and wet the blank, slap on the decal then squeegee out excess resin, then roll the cloth back over it then proceed with lamination . You can still slowly massage resin through the decal like i did here but it takes way more time and you have to check for any small air bubbles. Honestly we were a little too stoked and rushed into laminating before doing that first😅, spent like 20 minutes making up for that working resin through and squeezing out bubbles 😂👍🏻.

[@ZAGSurfboards]

@@RockandSeaGarageBoardShop thank goodness for that!! I was freaking out, but then I still manage to get air bubbles if i'm not careful after everything has been laid down nice and tight.. (I have no words when this happens.... FML) :P

[@jericoalvarez5803]

dude can you tell me the measure please :D

[@RockandSeaGarageBoardShop]

6’6 x 23 (super wide, most boards are around 22, this extra width really makes a difference in mushy smaller Cali waves😱🙌🏻) x 2-7/8 (nice and thick for paddle power catching waves, this board paddles pretty amazing for being less than 7 ft long)

[@jericoalvarez5803]

@@RockandSeaGarageBoardShop Thank u so much (muchas gracias ) greetings from Lima Perú

[@RockandSeaGarageBoardShop]

Whoa Lima 🇵🇪!! That’s awesome! It’s so cool to interact with board building enthusiasts from all over the world!!

[@explorster]

It will never work.

[@RockandSeaGarageBoardShop]

Nope, doesn’t even float 😂😂