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Flow State Hollow Wood Surfboards
Flow State hollow wood surfboards.
Bespoke hollow wood boards, handcrafted in Tasmania by Mathew Farrell. Built from recycled timbers to reduce their environmental impact, these boards are beautiful, unique, built to last and to perform.
They will far outlast a foam board, and look lush whilst doing so. The environmental impact of their recycled timber, epoxy and reduced fibreglass is far smaller than a single foam and polyurethane board.
Built from light weight Paulownia, Western Red Cedar and a range of Australian timbers. Custom shapes to your specifications and off the shelf models are available with a choice of bamboo fabric or 2oz glass; glass on timber fins or FCS plugs.
Current models include – summer fish, modern single fin, thruster.
Please allow one month from ordering for your board to be built.
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HWB
Just interested to know how much this board weighs
G'day Purny The weight
G'day Purny
The weight changes based on what timbers and glassing schedule we use. For example, the 5'11" thruster shown is made of Paulownia, with a 2oz glass job, and it weighs in at 3 kg (lighter than an equivalent foam board I have); The single fin shown is built the same, but with Tasmanain hardwoods, and weighs about 5 kg. Using bamboo raises the weight a bit. Cedar is slightly heavier than Paulownia, but not by a whole lot. We can tailor the weight and build, depeding on what you're after.
The whole weight thing is a bit interesting. A light board can snap turns quicker, is good for doing flips and is easier to carry down the beach. A heavier board has more momentum for arcing big carves, and through flat sections easier and cuts through chop better. That said, when in the water you usually won't notice a kilo or two either way. The weight of a board gets brought up a lot as it's an easy to quantify metric—you can write it on a swing tag, directly compare boards, etc. Flex patterns, for example, are a harder thing to measure and define, so most folks don't ever pay attention to them. I don't mean to say that weight isn't important though.
Cheers,
Mat