Can't wait for the finished product and a roport on the ride
Fin set up?
Hey afoaf.
I love these assy threads, I want to build a 5’9"x 5’-6" for myself soon…
I have a question about your bamboo deck inlay. Do you recess the veneer into the deck before bagging it to the foam, as that is what I’ve had great success with…
I lay the inlay exactly where I want it to be, then trace the outline of the inlay with a pencil, then using a router set to the thickness of the bamboo, I recess the deck to fit… You can also sand the recess in as well… This reduces the amount of hot coat required to level things up and you don’t sand away any bamboo… This is imortant to me because I like to dye the bamboo, and the more you sand it after applying dye, the patchier the color work looks…
If you do this already, nevermind my post…
It looks great so far, look forward to seeing the finished board…
usually I don’t use backing glass, so before I bag I just hand sand the edges to feather them down a bit. once it’s bagged to the board I go around the edges and sort of just push them in to the eps to lay them down a bit.
I still get some bumps here and there, but it’s only on the deck where it is more cosmetic than functionally troublesome.
do you just free hand the route?
ps. is “assy” a good thing?! ; )
leash loop
Kite, you been dying bamboo? Start a thread, buddy, I need to see more.
Greg, it’s in the mid 70’s of the WMD thread…
I’m calling it…a little wet sanding and polishing and it’s ready for Plaskett…
Going with my favorite quad setup plus a Parmenter keel on the frontside.
final weight without fins is 8lb 14oz
Looks cool man! Looking forward to a ride report!
very nice. I say again, I like your use minimal use of bamboo.
Afoaf—
Are you goofy-foot? My asymmetricals are set up with the curvier wide point/midpoint template on my frontside rail. They’re a mash-up of a single-fin frontside template with a wide-point-back template more typical of a three-fin.
End result is a two (not twin- unless they’re fraternal) fin— 8" more or less, sitting on the stringer (if I was using stringerless blanks, I’d have to use a ouiga board to place it) and a short keel-y fin on the backside rail.
I figure I could drive a barn door into a backside turn with my heels. The frontside rail I can finesse with all my toe-ankle-knee-hip articulation. (This becomes more theoretical by the year.)
All that articulation translates into more control. I can control some frontside fin-drift, and actually use it to stall in the pocket. Not crazy about backside drift.
JW
I’m the opposite…I love my BK front side, but not so much on the backside.
I really like my roundtail on the backhand, but it also goes well frontside.
at least that’s the story I’m sticking to.