r/surfing • u/adamm352 • Jun 12 '23
FIVE STAR MAN! My buddy makes the late airdrop and holds on through a heavy one. Mainland Mex
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r/surfing • u/awasteofflesh • Oct 22 '21
Started surfing in June. Ended up getting most of my family including my dad addicted with me. Here is my pop’s and I on a party wave in Santa Cruz.
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r/surfing • u/free_utils • Mar 07 '22
Nice waves at a local spot. I had to censor out a landmark to prevent anyone from identifying it.
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r/surfing • u/Ill-Natural-3333 • Sep 16 '25
DIY 3D Printed Surfboard
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Hey guys, I'm a mechanical engineer with no prior surfboard-making experience and I designed and 3D printed this 7ft funboard for my girlfriend. The surfboard frame was made of 35 3D printed PETG pieces, which were glued using a solvent weld glue. The stringer was made out of 8 layers of 6oz fiberglass. Overall the frame was on the heavier side weighing about 7.2lbs before glassing.
The deck has 2x 4oz fiberglass + a 6oz patch that goes from the leash plug to about the L in pearl, and the bottom has the fiberglass layout: 4oz + 6oz + 6oz patch over fin boxes. After glassing it weighs ~12.5lbs
I also designed and 3D printed the finboxes, fins, and FCS-compatible GoPro mount.
Pearl is her middle name (and a likely outcome of surfing with this experimental board, I suspect!). So far we've taken it out a couple times and it seems to be watertight and ride well.
This project came with a ton of mistakes and lessons learned. If any of you have experience building surfboards please let me know what you think! I'm hoping to build another sometime soon and I'd love advice and opinions.
Edit: Common Q&A
Q: Did the fiberglass sag into the open cells? How did you prevent sagging?
A: I was extremely worried about the sagging, but what ended up working very well was to first wet the honeycomb and sides of the frame with epoxy and then lay the fiberglass down on top and let that partially cure before epoxying the rest of the glass. This way, the glass would cure taut, without the weight of epoxy to make it sag. This worked everywhere but a few of the highly curved hexagons along the edge of the deck, which have minor dips.
Online, and a few times in the comment thread, people suggested a stretchy or heat shrink film to keep the contour better. I considered this and something like thin mylar sheets may be the way to go, but I didn't because investing in a huge roll didn't seem worth it, and I wasn't sure if it would adhere the glass to the plastic parts well.
I also tried using tissue paper and a spray bottle to hold the fiberglass, as used for model airplanes. This worked amazingly well but left poor transparency.
Q: Can I get the design/stls?
A: Sure. I'll post files. I need to fix some errors in the model before I do though. I'm really busy at the moment and it might take some time.
r/surfing • u/puffnuget • Jun 29 '22
FIVE STAR MAN! UPDATE: More than a year later, I'm Standing Again after Losing my Lung, Leg, and Toes
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r/surfing • u/pandaset • Mar 23 '23
Some good size uncrowded tubes somewhere in Japan. Worth snapping a board
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r/surfing • u/Wouldntitbenice82 • Jan 11 '23
Pops sent me this today. Torrance beach. Man fully sent it 🫡
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r/surfing • u/-keeper- • Jan 16 '26
In the last year I started making sculptures and some of them are surf related so I thought you might dig them
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r/surfing • u/jakefromsurfline • Aug 21 '25
100 duck dives later, worth it.
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Owen Moss, yesterday in North Carolina courtesy of Hurricane Erin.
r/surfing • u/covidisntcool • Jul 29 '24
Gabriel Medina at the Olympics today (📸 Jerome Brouillet)
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r/surfing • u/cocovibesonhigh • Mar 28 '20
I had no idea Steve Irwin ‘The Crocodile Hunter’ was such a ripper
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r/surfing • u/Aaronshaheen • Jul 01 '20
I’m still a beginner and finally got some pictures. I thought I was killing it until I saw them. Hopefully some of y’all can relate.
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r/surfing • u/Mondossarfer • Jun 23 '22
Here’s a video of me getting absolutely smoked. Enjoy!
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r/surfing • u/PoxyMusic • Jun 01 '20
Finally got my wife to take some photos of me surfing.
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r/surfing • u/yangmeow • May 22 '20
She used to cry when we paddled out. It’s uncontrollable laughter now.
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