Videos to Help Build Surfboards

How to Make a Hot Wire Foam Cutter

This is a video to learn how to make your own hotwire foam cutter from scratch. Allowing you to make your own surfboard blanks from scratch. This is especially useful if you live somewhere it is expensive to buy blanks. Using a hotwire foam cutter makes short work of large blocks of foam.

This is a video is how I made a stringer from a series I created for making a a chambered wooden surfboard. Check out the playlist if you are interested in making a wooden surfboard, it was a ton of work but came out beautiful.

In this video I show you how to make your own stringer using the Clark foam (RIP) catalog as a reference. If you are looking for the catalog, do a search for it and it should come up. I also glue the stringer between two blocks of XPS foam.

This is part one of making a surfboard stringer from a retro single fin surfboard build series. Again using the Clark foam catalog as a reference. This is from from a retro single fin surfboard build series.

This is part two of making a surfboard stringer from a retro single fin surfboard build series.

In this video, which I created a long time ago, I glue in a plywood stringer I made between some EPS foam. This is for a shortboard.

Vent your Surfboards!

It’s super important to vent your EPS surfboards.

Had an issue with a surfboard that wasn’t vented properly. So this is a part 1 video where I repair the delamination. You get a real sense of what can happen if you don’t vent your EPS surfboards.

Part 2 of the video where I repair a delamination because and the surfboard wasn’t vented correctly.

I really got in to SUP surfing and have made a few SUPs before, this is my version of a medium to smaller size surf SUP. Coming in at 7’6″ x 30″ x 4 5/8″, it’s got lots of volume but with a narrower nose to keep the swing weight down.

This is a 8′ x 32″ x 4 7/8″ general purpose SUP, it works fine for flat water paddling but as a beginner surf SUP it works awesome for learning the basics in the waves. Lots of float and super stable.

Shaping a mono concave in the bottom of a 10′ all around SUP. Using a power planer, Surform and sanding block to do the shaping.

I took a big chunk out of my shortboard. Here is a video on how I fixed it.