NINE LIGHTS "OPEN FACE SANDWICH" #3

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Jeff Beck, hiding behind the latest Nine Lights "Open Face Sandwich" board he recently hand made for me, 5'6" x 15" x 20" x 16" x 2.1/4":
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The board is made of stringerless EPS foam that is shaped, an 1/8" of balsa wood skin is then vacuumed to the deck, rails are foiled out of balsa wood, a tail block is added, and the bottom is left as the solid shaped foam. Glassed with epoxy, pigmented white over the foam bottom.

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It's basically the full Composite Sandwich (wood skin deck, wood skin bottom, wood rails) construction that Jeff builds most of his boards as, minus the wood skin on the bottom of the board. Per my request, Jeff started making the Open Face boards for me a year ago, when we discovered that the full composite boards felt more rigid than I preferred under my 140-ish Lb. weight.
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The Open Face construction makes for:
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• A board with familiar flex of a conventional stringered foam board.
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• Much stronger deck and rails than conventional board construction. I already slammed my knee hard into the deck while eating shit— Instantly pictured the worst when it happened. But looking at the deck, post slam, I can't tell where my knee came down on it. Jeff has boards that are years old without any foot pressure dents in them.
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• A light weight board— R. Kenvin was checking this board out recently and the first thing he commented on, when he picked it up, was its nice light weight.
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Additional links:
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Photo Documentation of full Composite Sandwich construction, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.
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Open Face Sandwich #2 w/ flex-tail.
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