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Basic make up of this blank is a rigid polyurethane foam with three cedar stringers glued in.
And stringers do, they give this blank rigidity. If we didn't have the stringers in here, the
blank would just flex like sponge. It's pretty soft, really flexible but, without the stringers,
it would be really flexible. They give it a tension, a flex pattern that's unique to
each board. This one has three offsets and this is what our team riders like. They like
this flex pattern. The foam is a U.S. blown foam, it's a company called U.S. Blanks. They
blow the foam over in Gardena. This particular blank was cut off a C&C machine for us, which
has been digitally scanned from one of our models by a company called Pro Cam, which
is really like a top-notch job. I particularly like the polyurethane foam because it's easier
to shape. It contours very easily. You know, blanks used to be done out of wood, which
was a lot harder to work with, maybe one or two days to shape one board. Nowadays, you
could do multiple boards in one day even if you're starting from scratch. It just shapes
unbelievable. Styrofoam, it's coming along. We've been using it for the last couple of
years. It's still more difficult to work with. It doesn't find sand out as nice as this.
It's a little bit more difficult in procedures. The beads fall apart a little bit more. But
this is just still, I think, the optimum for shaping surfboards.