Originally Posted by Team_Cat_Fever
Originally Posted by Jake
Originally Posted by samc99us
Boards are made in a mold. Mold cost is easily $10k per half, probably more. As the boards get longer and/or curved, you need more materials to get the strength up. It also takes longer to build the board. I'd estimate $300 in materials and $900 in labor to build a curved F20c board. The rest of the money is covering R&D, mold cost, and warranty.


And you need four mold halves where-as a port and starboard straight boards can be made from the same two mold halves.


You only need 2 mold halves. If you have a tapered tip you make the mold that much longer, put the tip on both ends , and cut off the "top" of opposing boards.Even works for asym. 1 mold/ 2 halves. If you're doing some kind of weird variable twist/ curve then you might need 4 halves.


hmmmm...right you are.


Jake Kohl