How To Trim the Crust from a Surfboard

Video Transcript

"Hi this is Kimo Greene, I am here to teach you how to shape a surf board on behalf of Expert Village. The outside of the blank is called a crust. When I take the crust off, the blank is left with a virgin foam underneath, and that is where I start. What I do first is check my work order and see what kind of board I am going to be making, look on my specs, and see that this blank is big enough for the kind of board I am going to make. So you are going to cut for a second and I am going to start by skinning the bottom of the blank off. It is real important that when you take the crust off, you leave the blank perfectly smooth like this. I know it looks easy, but it's really not, I have just done it so many times."