7' single fin first shape

General Discussion
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Hey there,

I spent my last weekend working on my first shape, and I’m now almost done…

Balsa sorry I didn’t call you and dropped by but I’ll definettely do it once the board is finished.

So thanks to all of you

and here are some pix of the thing

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…added an opaque resine tinted pinline…



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… and finally placed the fin box, used the same resine tint as the pinline…

Still have the finish to do

…first board but definetly not the last


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Great first effort. Nice classic wide point forward outline. Looks like it would be great on some of that hollow French beachbreak I always see in the videos. Give us a review when you get it wet.

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Hi Foamdust and thanks for your comment,

I’m glad you feel it’s gonna work in this kind of waves 'cause that’s exactly what I made the board for, having in mind that I’m heading in mainland mexico in a month…

cheers

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awesome! i hope it brings you through many big hollow shacks. happy surfing mate.

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i’m loving the board man.

it’s gonna go great in France and Mex.

i love the no frills approach to equipment for heavy waves.

if it was good enough for Gerry, it’s good enough for you!

right on!

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great board i wish my first board came out as good as that

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So I finnally got it in the water as one of the 3 boards I brought in Mexico- puerto escondido last month…

And here are my first thoughts on it :

  • too much rocker… the board pushes a bit too much of water, but then it’s kind of forgiving in waves like Puerto, just doesn’t paddle as fast as I wanted.

  • too much volume in the tail

But man, having to get shacked on something I made myself was one of the best feeling ever

ready for number two, it’s gonna be a fish, I’m gonna take more time refinning it so I don’t make the same obvious mistakes that I made on number one. blank is in the garrage, template is on its way

Donald