A book from the 70's.

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This book is how I got started making surfboards back in 1974 or 75.  I remember he had templates and off sets and measurements.  I never used them but the instructions were the “word” for me back then, having access to nothing else.  One funny note- I remember 3" thick was the thin board back then and became my standard.  Ten years later my standard was 2-1/2",   now it’s 2-1/4" to 2-3/8"

 

I was wondering if anyone has a copy of this book, maybe to sell or to scan?

 

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…the book is in the archives…

and the thickness stuff is not funny nor wrong; the thing is if you make a 5 2 fish better to have volume on the other way, if you shape a 6 x 18 std contemporary board, it rides better if have less thickness.

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Awwww nice book, that’ll be interesting to find a pdf of it. Do you know the name of the book?

If i think better … i have part of a similar book. The name of the file (maybe the book it’s also named like that) is **Surfboard Design and Construction 1977. **The pages i have is from Chaper I - Surfboard evolution to Chapter 7 - Fiberglassing a surfboard with some missing pages.

If somebody want it i can upload it to internet.

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Link: 

http://www.hollowsurfboards.com/SurfboardDesignandConstruction.htm

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I reach up to the shelf above my computer where I keep all important books!! Always in reach, SURFBOARD DESIGH AND CONSTRUCTION by James Kinstle . Natural High Express Publishing Company , Manhattan Beach, California. copyright 1975. I bought it new in 1975,  One owner with a lot of miles !! Not for sale !!!

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Wood_Ogre  TAKE TWO   I just did an amazon books search. They have 3 of them at $ 100 each !   I wouldn’t sell my book for no hundred dollars !!!

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Wood_Ogre TAKE THREE   There is also one on E bay !!

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Built my first surfboard with that book, too. My science teacher in high school had his classroom in a converted garage behind the school. We did all kinds of cool stuff back there… Raised lobsters, kept tropical fish we trapped over the summer in tanks, explored the salt marsh, even shot ducks before school. I shaped my first board using that book, then took it to his classroom and we glassed it there. He showed me how to foil a fin, and we foiled a plywood fin and glassed that on, too. I still have that book… buried deep in a box of stuff somewhere in my parent’s attic.

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Thanks for that link… That’s the book.  It’s much more in depth than I remember…