Hows it going all. Been following this thread for years full of great advice and some great people. In short been shaping for a while on and off, recently suffered a bad ankle injury. Lot more time to shape and have a few blanks backed up now to get me through the winter as I still got a few months out of the water :(. Anyways im a Grad School student from long island (mushy riding coniditions) so plenty of free time and some capital flowing. Main reason for posting is I have a 6’4" fish style blank eps, normal glued stringer. My current quiver even though I cannot use it,is a 5’11"x 20" Osaka design mini fish 5 fin from Venice CA, 6’5" x 22" retro swallow tail Natural progression quad, Australian Base model 6’1"x18" quad, and a recently finished mini simmons style 6’0" dual keel fins. So Im really open to anything on this 6’4" blank, looking for something maybe like a retro 6’0" with a single fin for those rare tube days. Most of my boards are fish/swallo style tails cause of the surf on this coast. Open to any suggestions, also any ideas people wanna toss my way on two longboard builds im currently about to start, one is a 9’4" U.S. Blank looking to make a 9’2"x20x3, thinking retro square tail, im 5’7" 180 so this thing would most likely be my noserider. Probably going to be a spooned out nose and still debating on a glass on fin, or a fin box seeing as how I go on many surf trips in cali. Anyone have experience with glass on fins and traveling all my boards execpt the mini are futures. The Second one is a 9’8" thinking about turning it into a hog for my brother he is a bit larger. Anyways thanks for any advice and help.
Yep, make a surfboard out of those blanks. You packed a lot of info into that huge paragraph, something like 8-10 surfboards are mentioned?
What exactly are you looking for help on. Keep it simple so we can help.
Lol valid point Basically ideas for a 6’4" eps blank something retro maybe a little high performance. And a little help on a nosrider for mushy conditions, basically weather or not to make that spoon type concave nose. Thanks for any help.
No such thing as retro high performance. In my humble opinion all 6ft nothing single fins sucked…or I should say the day I picked up my first twin fin (read not fish) I mean MR style twin fin, my surfing changed for the better. I remember thar day, I had just picked it up a Sunset Surfboard Twin fin shaped by Rusty Presindorfer (sp), went out at 15th St Del Mar…What a wonderful day, Then when I got my first Tri Fin, same thing. So we talk about single fin short boards…well you can carve anything you want, it will ride like a single fin. Make a Wing Pin tail single fin, at least it will look cool.
Lets start there.
Aw, c’mon Res. Don’t be so harsh on singles; they have their place. I think a smooth-outlined 6’0" to 6’2" x 20" cut out of the middle of that blank - wide point around a half-inch forward of center, taking all thickness off the deck so as to keep the rocker low and smooth, nicely foiled with modern rails - it would be a nice way to round out that quiver. The only bottom contours I would consider would be a little forward vee to cut through chop (he said it’s EPS, so the less chatter the better). Flat through middle and tail. Keep it simple. Put a long box in it as far back as possible and he could try it regular single or in-line single for comparison. Start off with a 6.5" Bonzer fin.
For me, it’s hard to beat a single-fin for teaching someone to flow with a wave.
Well, Jolly Mon asked for opinions, so there’s mine.
Dude, where’s my points?
Im liking that idea its kind of the missing piece from my quiver. And I would not say you canont have a retro influenced high performance board at least asthetically. Im going to do some fiddling with some designs over the week Ill prob post some build thread as I go because I have never built a retor single fin like that. Thanks again guys.