I searched around for a deckpad and found the most inexpensive pad on Ebay. I paid $59.95 plus $10 shipping fee for a blue deckpad. Since the width of the deck pad was designed for an SUP board it was wider than what I actually needed for my 23" wide Pope Bisect. The pad was one piece, 23.5 inches by 86 inches so I had to cut it for customization. Before I purchased the SUP deckpad from Ebay, I spent some time mocking it up on a computer model. The digital mock-up was done to determine how and where I would have to cut the deckpad to fit the two-piece Pope Bisect. To do this I got a pic of the deckpad from Ebay and imported into a 3D CAD software (
Solidworks) to use as a template. also did the same with a pic of the 9'6" Pope Bisect which I used as a template to create a 3d model of the surfboard. Sounds like overkill but I thought it was a good exercise. Anyways, I already needed a 3D model of a surfboard since I was currently working on a patent that required 3D perspective drawings of a surfboard. Below is a photo of my actual board with deckpad applied.
I searched around for a deckpad and found the most inexpensive pad on Ebay. I paid $59.95 plus $10 shipping fee for a blue deckpad. Since the width of the deck pad was designed for an SUP board it was wider than what I actually needed for my 23" wide Pope Bisect. The pad was one piece, 23.5 inches by 86 inches so I had to cut it for customization. Before I purchased the SUP deckpad from Ebay, I spent some time mocking it up on a computer model. The digital mock-up was done to determine how and where I would have to cut the deckpad to fit the two-piece Pope Bisect. To do this I got a pic of the deckpad from Ebay and imported into a 3D CAD software (Solidworks) to use as a template. also did the same with a pic of the 9'6" Pope Bisect which I used as a template to create a 3d model of the surfboard. Sounds like overkill but I thought it was a good exercise. Anyways, I already needed a 3D model of a surfboard since I was currently working on a patent that required 3D perspective drawings of a surfboard. Below is a photo of my actual board with deckpad applied.
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