Why Build a Wooden Hollow Wooden Longboard
Surfers are more and more starting to choose wooden long boards and asking the question - how to make a surfboard or more specifically how to make a longboard. With the costs so high it would be easy for the average surfer to be excluded without a long board to ride on. Many long boarders are floored to hear a hollow longboard can be made for $100 in wood and the lumber can be bought at a store.
Though they are slightly challenging to make yourself, it IS definitely possible for the garage wood worker. The surfboards look great and have the classic not found since those built many years ago but are lighter with hollow designs not seen in the early surfboards.
One of the biggest differences between the original surfboards of the retro wood longboards of the present day is the hollow wood design. The surfboards can be built longer without the extra weight of the wasted wood. An "SUP" has become much more popular than the early models in the 50's because of the hollow construction. Foam longboards will always be lighter but wood longboards can come be fairly light considering and still provide the classic retro style most surfers and long-boarders are looking for in a surfboard.
What makes these hollow longboards so light? Instead making the longboard from solid wood, these surfboards are built with a hollow construction. The inside of the board looks more like an airplane wing on an airliner that a longboard built for riding waves. Even the initial structure of the board weighs less than you would think, when completed, the longboard is as strong as most foam boards.
Many surfers prefer these hollow longboards when thinking of the mass produced longboards because of the cool factor of their looks and telling their friends that they can build a longboard surfboard. With regular store-bought longboards you can paint them with any color imaginable, but these hollow surfboards can be built with wood inlays and painted designs that are completely original, not attainable in mass produced boards, and custom to the designer of the board.
A variety of shades of lumber, shapes, and preferences are available and limited only to the long-board builder. When making your own longboard, the material is also much more forgiving to work with than the foam kits. On the internet can be bought some wood kits for wooden hollow boards but after shipping costs and times saved is not that much so many choose to just build a wooden longboard using plans that are available for inexpensive prices and downladable.
All the surfers in the lineup will be impressed with your garage built surfboard when you explain to them how to build wooden longboard surfboard using full size plans and blueprints. You will be in new/old club of surfers that surf retro surfboards.
