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8'0" 2014 NAISH HOKUA LE SUP STAND UP PADDLE BOARD $1,000.00 Negotiable. Top of the Naish SUP range, 8'0 x 26" x 3 5/8" high performance SUP for $1000. These go for $2k brand new, great condition, 1 owner, shreds in small & big waves. Located on the NSW central coast but I work in St Leonards so if ...

Does anyone know if any australian board manufacturers intend on taking up the hydroflex technologies / 3D glassing. Lost Mayhem seem to use it quite a bit with many of their pros so it must have some integrity. Its been around in the US for maybe 2 years but im yet to find an aussie board maker or ...

Wanna know about concaves n rocker, talk to Greg Webber. As far as Im concerned hes the king of curve.

dUG, Captain, nice posts, I totally agree... :D No doubt 5 holes are a marketing ploy. I guess the majority of uninitiated surfing consumers like to get more bang for their buck so perhaps 5 plugs is seen to offer more however depending on the shape could actually offer no more than what the shape w...

But they will certainly not improve your ability as a surfer. In fact I would argue the make you a worse, lazy surfer. I would say that the reason you have so much trouble on a HPS is because you are stuck in the whole Fat Bat/ Alternative type board thing. I shouldnt buy into this discussion but I...

Sweet trip to Bali again just this June/July. Great waves and successful, safe riding around the joint. As I said its one of the best parts of going to Bali, riding a shitty MOPed, Skooter what ever the hell you call them. As long as you have your wits about you, ride carefully, be mindful, slow dow...

OK - Relaminating or Re-glassing a ding After bogging a rail ding, to apply the glass patch, do you use a tray (ice cream tub lid??) to hold your resin+catalyst mix then drop your patch of glass in the resin "bath" to get a good coverage of resin and then with sticky fingers apply the resin dripping...

This is my new board, 3 months old. The stringer has now popped through so no doubt is taking in water.
Ive gota say I fkn love these forums, Ive learnt so much and Ric next time Im down your way (I live on the Centy Coast) I will drop you a carton of amber, whats your flavour ?

Hey Ric, heres the offending damage that my petite yet sumo like feet cause. This post are the images of my 2 yr old board. Its a great board so Im desperate to salvage it. In retrospect I think I should have just brought the board to you to fix Ric but none the less its a good learning curve fixing...

Being a total novive and not knowing at all the workflow of shaping a board, when it comes to a blank thats been pre-shaped via a shaping machine (sorry I have no idea what the machines are called), whats involved post machine shape ? I understand they do the outline and I do know a shaper finishes ...

So Ric, would those UV ding repair kits you see at the surfshops, often a tube of something and a bit of sand paper are actually OK. I looked at them and thought they werent any good. I think one was from Ocean and Earth another was Soltek I think.

Hey Ric, for the newbies or uninitiated could you tell us what all those abbreviations or acronyms mean.?
UV =
MEKP =
and anymore that you have already mentioned in previous threads.
cheers

What about Core Industries blanks. They claim "HIGH DENSITY - The density of our blanks is all throughout the cross section of the board and not only skin deep." Have you had any experience with these blanks?

Hey Ric, Ive read alot of the Surfblanks website and found it quite interesting and now understand better the relevance of want you mean by over shaping or taking too much off the top. I know not all shapers use SurfBlank blanks but is there any way of telling what density a blank is thats been carv...

I wanted to be a shaper when I was a young bloke, I still wish I had but my mum n dad said no way. Its probably the only time I ever did what they wanted of me and became a graphic designer (boring !!!) instead. What would be great is if a shaper could hold some amateur course ala Community College ...

Yeah sweet, I might just do that.

Few places do their own glassing and everything else involved in the process... we do for several reasons.

Hey Ric, thanks again for all of your knowledge, Any chance of you can share which board company you work for. I can give you my email if you want to name it off record.

Thanks for the tip ric, looks like I need to track down some Epoxy resin for my SLX fix. I have fixed the nose with standard resin with fine results, a little rail ding sanded back, filled with a thick balloons+resin mix, sanded back and repatched with glass cloth and resin and finished.