This is what I came up with. I used an old board I was keeping for some reason, to build a framework to hold the plywood in bent form. I will laminate 4 of these pieces of plywood together with glass sandwiched in between each board. The final product should hold my weight (about 192 lbs since I last checked) to be good for the grandchildren to use. I took Thor's idea to use a piece of string (well, rope since I have only bits of rope laying around) to figure out the length I needed to build the framework. If I succeed with this, I am sure someone else will want one of these balance boards. I am building this thing because the daughter-in-law wanted this board for her daughter and the market price for one is $135 CAD (choke). I am using scraps I found in the garage to do it myself. My only real cost will be the epoxy (precious little expense) and shipping costs.
Ooooh yeah, I am using my kayak (got that word in there to make this kinda sorta relevant) materials for this "build". Might be interesting to take this board onto a floating kayak to practice balance. Lay it over the cockpit curve-down and stand on it. With my inner ear problems (left side), I should be swimming in no time.
Robert (Ai)N(t no way I'm paying that price) Pruden
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Robert N Pruden -- 11/19/2012, 7:59 pm- Re: Off Topic: I need to build a balance board...
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Robert N Pruden -- 11/25/2012, 2:11 pm- Re: Well, here it is...the balance board project
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Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 11/25/2012, 5:50 pm- Re: Well, here it is...the balance board project
Robert N Pruden -- 11/28/2012, 2:29 pm- Re: Well, here it is...the balance board project
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Robert N Pruden -- 11/29/2012, 12:33 pm
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Dan Caouette (CSCWC) -- 11/26/2012, 7:53 am- Re: Well, here it is...the balance board project
Mike Bielski -- 11/26/2012, 9:11 am
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Robert N Pruden -- 11/28/2012, 2:35 pm- A poem, Et
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Robert N Pruden -- 11/29/2012, 10:09 pm
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