Natural Bamboo Fiberglass
Just as bamboo is a brilliant choice for surfboard stringers due to it's strength and eco-friendliness, bamboo fiberglass cloth is an excellent choice for glassing with Epoxy Resins.
Natural Bamboo fiber is extracted directly from Bamboo clumps - by crushing, grinding, wringing, and then combing the actual pulp from the Bamboo plants.
The manufacturing is a green process without pollution.
Our Natural Bamboo Fiberglass was developed for
Greenlight Surfboard Supply as the absolute best material for environmentally friendly glassing.
It is specially knitted - as opposed to woven - to stretch in multiple directions allowing it to lap around rails very easily and creates a
spring-like tension in the outer skin of a surfboard.
Benefits of Using Natural Bamboo Fiberglass for Glassing Surfboards:
- The bamboo fiberglass stretches to approx 125% from its original dimensions – you can glass a surfboard with approx 25% less
fabric than any other material - with the same strength. In this, less truly is more.
- Glassing the fabric when stretched creates tension distributed around the entire surfboard providing a quicker rebound when flexed through a turn.
- The bamboo fiberglass absorbs a bit more epoxy resin than traditional fiberglass, creating an extremely strong, yet light weight surfboard
- The bamboo fibers are biodegradable and decomposition does not cause any environmental pollution
Upon hot coating the deck, you can choose to lay down a bit less resin
with no sanding resulting in a textured deck greatly reducing or even eliminating the wax you would normally use.
Bamboo fiberglass is very easy to work with:
- It laps around rails effortlessly
- Bamboo fiberglass is sandable with any grit sandpaper
- It is super easy to trim the laps when the epoxy has fully cured – just score with razor blade and fold over. It snaps cleanly right along the score line!
- Bamboo fiberglass can be used with Glass-on fins to replace traditional fiberglass
- Bamboo fiberglass doesn't make you itch like traditional fiberglass
EPOXY RESINS
We recommend using Resin Research Epoxy
It's easy to work with, exhibits very low levels of VOCs, and forms a matrix bond with our Natural Bamboo Fiberglass, making it the best choice for building strong, environmentally friendly surfboards.
Resin Research Epoxy is available in Stiff Modulus (2000) or a more Flexible Modulus (2020). Both types work great with Bamboo Fiberglass and the modulus you choose will aid in how you want your surfboard to perform.
A textured deck needs little or no wax.
Go to the Greenlight Surf Supply Online Store
Greenlight's Bamboo Fabric stretches approximately 25%
in multiple directions
Allowing You to Use Less Material
Photo: Skye Nacel
Customer Testimonials
"I have to say that working with the bamboo fiberglass has been relatively easy even for a novice glasser.
Keep up the good work....:)"
~Michael Anaya San Diego, CA"Board turned out great!
First board ever made.
Sorry to toot my own horn,
but its f&$%in sweet!
Thanks again, and you will be hearing from me again - I
will definitely be glassing with
your bamboo!"
~ Sean Ahern
Charleston, SC
"My prayers for surf have been answered and finally could surf my new bamboo laminated board!! I had 5 feet swell.
I love how it worked in those conditions, it is quite lively and reacts better than my old fiberglass boards. I could score some good backside snaps.
I think it feels like when fiberglass is new."
~Xabi Hernandez
San Sebastian, Spain
"Glassed a thruster with Bamboo. Epic. Managed with only 3 laps, well, zero laps, as I cut super close and stitched the edges flush, takes about ten mins and then there is NO sanding out of laps. The cloth takes a bit more resin, but saying that, there was no wasted resin, try that with PY and Glass. The board is super hard goes soooo fast I fear speeding tickets. Have two orders from one day out with the board, not bad."
~Dave Cross
Gloustershire, UK
Check out the Bamboo Fiberglassing Technique
