This month we're giving away a custom-built Timponi Nub Model Surfboard.

It's a channel bottom bat tail.

Our podcast is listener-supported with an assist from brands like neat essentials,

slow-tied,, NBS fins.

But we do these giveaways as a thank you to listeners who support the show.

In honor of Earth Day on April 22nd, Jeff Timponi will build this board in Maui Leaflight construction,

which features recycled EPS foam, hemp cloth, and bioreson.

Jeff's son Nick is his in-house laminator.

The first thing we do with our EPS cores is we bog them.

And this entails we mix up a batch of epoxy.

We add some thickener, and we basically squeegee this onto the raw blank.

This seals any little pinholes in the blank that will give us problems in the lamination as far as off gassing.

This is also the stage where we add our fin boxes, make sure those are all flush and true.

We also add our unidirectional tape onto the bottom.

This just adds a little extra structure to the board.

When that goes off, then we start with our sandwich construction.

And this just applies to the deck of the board.

So we have our flax tail patch.

We have our hemp, which goes over the entire deck of the board. So we have our flax tail patch. We have our hemp, which goes over the entire

deck of the board. And we basically inlay those. We inlay those and we let them get pretty hard

to where they're trimable. Then we trim them up. And then we can start just the standard

lamination process. So we flip the board over.

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