Finally finished my second homemade board and thanks to some great tips from other board builders on seabreeze it was a big step forward from the first, very dodgy board I made last year.

Its 133x39cm, 4.5cm continuous rocker, 5mm concave. The core is 2x6mm PVC foam (Klegecell) with balsawood veneer over the top. 2x6oz e-glass (one at 45/45 degrees), 1x 4oz s-glass on each side of the board.








To help design this board I put together an excel spreadsheet that lets you create the outline, rocker and concave templates for the rocker table and estimate the weight of the board. It came in pretty handy and if any other DIY board builders want a copy you can download it free from the link on this page.

www.boardbuilders.co/2011/05/my-first-plagarism-free-board.html

It was put together in MS Excel 2007 and doesn't open properly in earlier versions ( the chart series get dropped for some reason). It contains a VB macro for generating the splines used to get the smooth curves used for the outlines so you'll need to enable macros.

There is a very very beta board flex model in the workbook which attempts to predict the flex of the board under different loads. Its currently way off the mark but I have left it in there in case anyone with some background in the area can help me refine it.