Blue Foam, Guest Shaper, and LokBox Vid

Just a few random thoughts that have been floating around my head lately...

First up, here's a pic of my neighborhood hardware store's garbage pile from the other day, see anything interesting?...


The baby blue slabs in the middle of the pic are slabs of Dow Freezermate EPS foam. A friend of mine decided that it would be cool to "borrow" a few (...or six) to make into surfboards. The dims of the "blanks" are 7'10" x 24" x 3" and flawless. I don't know anything about epoxy yet, but I assume we'd need to glue in some stringers, go stringerless, or as my friend would like, add carbon parabolic stringers (which is way beyond me). According to my friend, this is the same stuff that those blue Salomon (sp?) boards are skinned with. The stuff is super light and feels like they would shape easily.

But, there are a few things I'm uncertain of:
1) In order to accomodate rocker, seems like we'd need to glue together some blocks near the nose/tail regions to increase thickness. What kind of glue is used for this?
2) Speaking of glue, what kind of glue is used to glue up blanks and stringers?
3) Why was there a big black SUV with tinted black windows following us as we carried our "borrowed" foam back to our apartments? And why did he stop in front of my building while staring at us in an unfriendly manner???

Should be interesting to see what becomes of this blue foam. I feel guilty about taking the foam for some reason. My friend assures me that its garbage, but I can't see why they'd throw out perfectly good foam. I'm not entirely convinced its good karma to make surfboards out of stolen garbage...or maybe it is, in a weird recycling kind of way. (Chris, any bad karma resulting from all of this is your fault!)

On the shaping front, not much going on with me these days, just working on a twinnie fish (my first one) for a friend. Pics of that project to come later. Till then, here are some pics of a friend of mine who is guest-shaping a fish for himself. It'll be his #001 and will have glasson bamboo twin keels by 101 Fin Co. Go Jamie!


Oh, and one last thing... I happen to stumble upon a video over at Swaylocks that shows how to use the new LokBox (non-vacuum) installation kit. Thanks to NY_Surfer for this great resource!

Thats it for now...
kc

ps. Say a prayer for all those close to the fires in SoCal....especially these guys.