Grain Surfboards – Build Your Own Board 0
The Grain Surfboards Home Grown Boards are essentially a kit with all the milled components you will need to build your own board. Grain has a line of some 14 boards from the 5’4 Waka fish to the 10’6 Northern Pintail. The Seed is a popular pick for its versatility and classic lines, but Grain offers eight of its boards as kits. You pick the stick. Then, the specific frame, cedar planks, rail strips, fin boxes, leash plug, glue, and glass all arrive at your door. It’s up to you to assemble the frame, set the outline on the bottom planks and build upwards on the rail with 3/16 inch strips of cedar, fit your top planks before shaping the final product. Then sand for a few days and glass it. Figure on about 50 hours.
Building a kit is by no means an easy task. Grain also offers classes, wherein students go to the factory (something else you might want to put on your bucket list.) Working side-by-side with the Grain staff, it still takes seven days, but you leave with what is sure to be the gem of your quiver. The Home Grown kits require some DIY skills an ample garage space, but they come with a very thorough instruction manual.
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