Sports boards with reclaimed structures

A method for making a composite sports board assembly configured for a new multi-layer composite sports board, the method comprising the steps of:

• gathering a plurality of composite sports boards, each composite sports board of said plurality of composite boards comprising a plurality of bonded layers bonded together in a first lamination direction;
• creating a block blank from said plurality of composite sports boards, the block blank comprising a plurality of slabs bonded together in the first lamination direction, each slab of said plurality of slabs comprising the plurality of bonded layers from one composite sports board of said plurality of composite sports, said plurality of slabs in the block blank being stacked in the first lamination direction with a respective layer of slab adhesive disposed between adjacent slabs of said plurality of slabs;
• cutting said block blank in a direction crossing said plurality of slabs to form a core panel comprising a plurality of slab portions cut from the plurality of slabs;
• cutting said core panel to form at least one core insert having a top surface and a bottom surface, wherein remaining slab portions of the plurality of slab portions within said core panel extend from said top surface to said bottom surface in said at least one core insert;
• assembling a plurality of layers stacked in a second lamination direction with a lamination adhesive disposed between adjacent layers of said plurality of layers, said at least one core insert being assembled to span at least one of the plurality of layers;
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• curing said lamination adhesive to fix together said at least one core insert and said plurality of layers to form the composite sports board assembly.