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Hi, this is Kimo Greene, I am here to teach you how to shape a surfboard on behalf of
Expert Village. Well, there is two kinds of blanks. The EPS blank is expanded polystyrene.
That is what they use when they make epoxy boards. Epoxy is a type of resin used to laminate
a surfboard and you can only use epoxy resin on EPS boards. Polyester resin doesn't work
because it has styrene and it eats the foam. This is polyurethane blank. It's got styrene
in it so you can use the polyester resin on it. These are companies called US Blanks.
US Blanks was basically the same people that used to work for Clark Foam. They are excellent
quality, good stringers, good craftsmanship. No surprises when I skin the outside. The
outside of the blank is called a crust. When I take the crust off, the blank is left with
pretty much *** foam underneath. I'm not into junk foam. I had some blanks from China
that were so scary. They were like beautiful like this on the outside, and then when I
skinned them open and it looked like craters everywhere. Like giant termite holes.