I'm building hollow, cardboard core surfboards. Cardboard, seriously. These are ridable prototypes for a new approach to building boards out of interlocking cross-sectional ribs cut from sheet materials.
Long Beach
Feb. 2008
 As unlikely as a cardboard surfboard, but it happened: A big winter swell squeezed through the breakwater, making for clean fun waves in Long Beach - and I had the perfect board on hand.
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Surfer Magazine Feature
Nov. 2007
 The December issue of Surfer Magazine featured photos of Alex's board and a half-page article about this project. |
new capabilities
April. 2008
 swallowtails now possible, among other things
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simpler assembly video
April 2008
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After riding the same 8'6" Robert August board for 13 years, I found it had developed a lively flex zone somewhere near the middle, around the cracked and swollen stringer. It was time to strip the wax and send the board into wall-hanging retirement, but I couldn't afford a new board to replace it. Why not build my own? Could I do that for a couple hundred? I didn't want to work with foam. What about a hollow wood board? Hmm... (continued)
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