This will be my first go at shaping foam. Wanted to know what some real shapers thought of my outline/rocker/foil/etc before I start hacking things up.
I’m using one of the greenlight kits so EPS blank w/ bamboo stringer and glassing with bamboo cloth w/ RR epoxy. Fins will be glass on bamboo panels with traditional glass cloth and RR epoxy. I ordered the thing with a 6’4" fish blank thinking I’d be doing a thicker, flatter 6’2" to tool around on this spring in windswell, but Spearz shipped me a 6’3" shortboard blank instead so that changed the plans up a little bit - not what I had in mind, but at 5’10" and 160lbs myself I can still rock a smaller board just fine. I haven’t laid it out and checked yet, but I shouldn’t have trouble getting
this shape out of the 6’3 SB blank if I just drop the front 3.5" and the tail
1.5" or so should I?
This won’t be the mushburger muncher I had in mind, but should go great in faster waves that are a little too blah for my go-to ‘shortboard’ (6’1"x18.75" bat-tail stretch quad).
Not sure what I want the bottom shape to look like either so I am open to suggestions on that. My favorite boards are flatish to double concave vee’d out a bit in the last few (3-6) inches (stretch quad and 6’ egg) or flat to gentle single concave (my very retro 5’8" christenson twin-keel). The greenlight guys recommended just doing flat to vee out the last 18" mostly because it’s easier for first timers, but I’m not sold that it’ll work well for me on this board. Any opinions here?
I had to scale my image down a bunch to get it to upload, but there’s a much better resolution version here:
Jeez you got a lot on your plate there. As a backyard hack myself, I’d recommend on your first go, striving for a smooth rocker flow, a symmetrical outline and a nice flat bottom.
