Details of wakesurf board construction.
Apr 26
It’s been a few posts back where we documented preparing all the reinforcement and consumable supplies in preparation for glue up on this carbon and kevlar wake surfer build. In this post we’ll walk through the actual process. We’ve also already jumped ahead and ridden this wake surfer, so it’s already finished, we’re just back-filling …
Apr 21
We’re still dragging a bit from that stupid virus. We’re pretty sure that Kleenex is feeling a surge in profits, this month, from our household alone! Getting back to our composite wakesurf board build, we had cut and laid out all of the materials for laminating the bottom and we’ve already shown you the results …
Apr 20
There’s a nasty virus running amok in the Walker household, so we hope you’ll bear with us as we try and beat this thing. Lots of coughing and hacking going on and no so much writing or production! In the last post we had cut all of the reinforcement fabric and in today’s post we …
Apr 18
We’ve done a little wakesurfing and actually completed this project, but we need to go back now and finish up the wake surf board build process. We left off with a short introductory discussion about Kevlar and how we intend to use in on this wake surf board. Kevlar is a super rugged reinforcement fabric …
Apr 16
So we are going to jump ahead in our build sequence of the 3 pound wakesurfer, it still needs fin boxes, but we’ll be under the 3 pound mark on the wakesurfer with a few ounces to spare. You can see, without the fin boxes, it is about 2 pounds 11′is ounces. As you can …
Apr 14
As we mentioned in the previous post, we thought we’d take a moment and talk about Kevlar and it’s wakesurf uses. Stephanie Kwolek invented Kevlar while working at DuPont back in the 1960′s. Her early work is also responsible for Nomex aramid polymer. Currently Kevlar comes in three distinct “flavors” Kevlar 29, Kevlar 49 and …
Apr 13
EEEEK! It’s Friday the 13th! So we have all of the reinforcement and consumable supplies cut and we documented that in the previous post. In today’s post we’re going to wet out the fabric and bundle it all up for the placing it in the vacuum bag. The process is not as difficult as may …
Apr 12
So where were we? It’s funny, because we are several steps ahead in the wake surf board build than what we post online, so we have to go back and refresh our memories! If you recall, we talked about the alignment of the reinforcement fabrics so that we had fabric running at different angles in …
Apr 11
We have been working with a few shapers of late to develop some wild and innovative concepts in wake surfers. One of the things we love so much about design and riding is innovation. It’s fine if folks choose to be aligned with the 60′s that was a great time, tie die shirts, head bands, …
Apr 10
We do a LOT of vacuum bagging of wakesurfers. The various components, as well as, the external lamination. We wouldn’t call ourselfs experts, there are people that use vacuum assited techniques for a living, but we also aren’t newbs at it. So it didn’t surprise us when our good friend Tim B. posed a question …
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