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Re: Material: FOAM flyer revisited
By:johne
Date: 3/4/2009, 12:48 pm
In Response To: Material: FOAM flyer revisited (David Tebera)

: Two years ago maybe more I started building a kayak shape out of foam board
: and took a lot of heat from you guys. Ok... not that much, but some. You
: said my design was tippy and that people don't make shapes out of foam.
: They do stripbuilt for prototypes.

: Seems I wasn't too far off. I was gleefully happy to see this.

: But until then I thought you folks like to see another approach. Gotta love
: kayaking no matter if it is plastic, carbon, skin, or wood!

: Cheers!

It looks like they were building a foam plug to build a tool to build a series of fiberglass boats. That would be a very costly and difficult process to build a one-off prototype.

Messages In This Thread

Material: FOAM flyer revisited
David Tebera -- 3/3/2009, 11:11 am
Re: Material: FOAM flyer revisited
johne -- 3/4/2009, 12:48 pm
Re: Material: FOAM flyer revisited
David Tebera -- 3/4/2009, 2:19 pm
Re: Material: FOAM flyer revisited
Bill Hamm -- 3/4/2009, 12:36 am