So my friend just put this video together.
I know a few people here will appreciate it.
Machine this!
Hecho a mano por Barry Snyder. Handshaper de surf.
Beautiful. If I was a younger man, you would be a person I would love to serve an apprenticeship with, and learn all the aspects of the trade.
Thank you
So cool!
As always Barry, beautiful work.
But i a curious as to why you say this couldn’t be done via cnc? I don’t see anything that would be technologically prohibitive. There was a fine example of a chambered poplar board on a thread a few weeks ago that was mostly done by cnc router (and I suspect could have been done completely with the right machine.) just would take the same number of steps…
Fun video. Question, what is the liquid you put on the board after sanding?
Badass!!! Hand made start to finish.
I’m not against CNC per se, I pretty much ride the fence on that dealio, but for those that claim that using power tools eliminates the “hand made” claim, I submit that he held them in his hands the whole time they were being used (quite skillfully at that).
Great work as always Barry.
Nicely done…And I love your shaping caps
10 out of 10!
I wasn’t taught by a professional, but I was taught by a craftsman shopsmith. Mr. Snyder, your method is also how I learned. You do it all except blow the foam. That’s what makes you a surfboard builder. Shaping is, in my opinion, not even half the process. After shaping, the machine(s) goes away. But I don’t think I could shape in a fishbowl like that. Loss of concentration for me, Congrats!
Groovy Barry! a few comments: at 40 sec into the vid your bandsaw table is wobbling…that would drive me crazy! I have tried doping agave stringers with wood glue; didn’t like the result much. Instead I always end up pre-sealing the stringer (top & bottom of, not sides) with thinned out resin before I lam the board - do you do that too? (that step didn’t show in vid). must be good secret sauce? I would gloss coat any board with that much art and labor into it.
Bitchin’!
very nice Barry
Absolutely stunning and kudos to the crafstmanship - there is a ton of MANA in a board like that.
Question: if I saw that board somewhere I would immediately wonder - is that a little excessive on the stringer? It is certainly not going to buckle EVER and I am dismayed as much as the next guy when the glassing schedule / stringer are inadequate (especially on a bigger board) resulting in a shorter life, sometimes quite suddenly should a board have an unfortunate encounter with the shorebreak. SO, is the agave extra light? Just aesthetics? It is a heavy board and deal with it? Inquiring minds want to know.
Not by any means meant as criticism - I would not even BEGIN to portray myself as someone whose critique could be worth an ass rats in this context - just curious…
Excellent Mr. Snyder. Ah yes! Der “Secret Sauce”
Barry does it all, even grew that agave. You don’t get this good unless you really have love for the art.
Great video, Barry. It was shot and edited very well and a pleasure to watch.
Thanks guys for all the kind words. I do truly love doing these “project” boards. I hope to finish out my years doing more of the same. Very rewarding. In my little “Lab”, I have woodworking tools, lots of wood, and plenty of “donor foam” to play with. That board was the second in that series. My “Hitchcock” squared nose Anti-Simmons sells very well. So I thought I would change it up and add a 1-1/2" Agave stringer. As you can see, I just cut out some center foam and replaced it with my Agave. That piece of wood weighs the same as the 1/8" Bass stringer I removed.
I utilize that wood whenever possible. Solid boards, Stringers, Rails, Fins Etc…
The best part of that video is what they did not show. That was at The Boardroom Show at Del Mar last year. Scott Bass contacted me and asked if I wanted to shape something in his “Fisbowl” shaping room. I agreed and brought a partially shaped blank.
Now everybody else brought a machined blank to finish. Me being a bit of a troublemaker brought my loudest planer I own. That’s right, my Skil 100.
So I proceeded to lay into that blank. Somebody ran up to the room and slamed the door. They asked me to stop because they were interviewing Shawn Madison. (Von Sol) or as I call it, Von Stool. He got all butt-hurt because I interupted his big Princess Show. I just kept shaping. HEHE!
I love it when I can ruin the day of some princess. Talk about your Machine Queen.
Priceless.
“So I proceeded to lay into that blank. Somebody ran up to the room and slamed the door. They asked me to stop because they were interviewing Shawn Madison. (Von Sol) or as I call it, Von Stool. He got all butt-hurt because I interupted his big Princess Show. I just kept shaping. HEHE!”
His last name is Mattison, and while he doesn’t shape he has boards made in China for him to peddle Stateside. He has a few made here by local shapers, but they are “his” designs. There isn’t enough credit to go around when he is envolved; yet still I don’t have an axe to grind with him and he surfs well and has a nice family to support, and surfs well, and likes to bring photographers with him to the beach. Did I say he surfs well enough?
…hello BarrySnyder, I m with you and good clip, but you know, Im a bit picky and if somebody put material here I think he s up to critics. The back of the rear box looks not centered in the Agave stringer and I see some corners in the top part of the pinline. Anyway, props on you, I could not shape in that fish bowl without distract me all the time, but may be fucking the status quo is an incentive. Regarding Von sol, seems something similar with Tudor and other guys there