hooray should I phone you
to arrange to bring up balsa?
…ambrose…
I do think our friend Ace just got back from a winter in Ecuador He just might have some Balsa shaping knowledge. Just thought I would add his name to the list of Balsa carvers.
SAME REPLY i gave you over on the SurferBB---------george robinson in Fla. if you want a custom to actually ride that won’t break the bank. he’s a little nutty but a nice guy overall. riding one is unique short board or longboard. but you might want to avoid crowds. i used to ride mine in the winter when most of the idiots were not out in the water. Danny Heritage build some nice ones back in the past, but you ain’t gettin’ one of his ;-( as for the guy in Equador, saw one over on e bay last nite looked so-so, did see one on the beach here, guy was sorry he brought it home from there. best idea; either do it yourself or spend the bucks…
I'm aware of two balsa operations in Ecuador - Balsaflite and Sharkbay. Can anyone contrast the two in terms of quality balsa boards?
ACE posted a pic of a board he made 30 odd years ago, still in surfable condition. He'd probably make you one. And probably so would jim phillips.
If ambrose were to just bring the wood up I would feal obligated to mill it after saying what I said , but if ambrose were to call I might be tempted to say I am to busy! In the afternoons I am tired and hungry with low blood sugar and would prolly be bribed with a Coke and a cooking. Besides if he showed up I wouldnt have to explain why I am milling wood and not working on something worth while for my wife !!!
one o’ these days I’ll dig it all out from under
the wood pile ,when the boards are off the truck
and the racks will hold the lumber.
too busy is a state of mind
trying to catch up is where I’m at…
…ambrose…
calling is when
the spirit moves us.
Howzit Wood_Ogre,I have almost 2200 points and Bill and Jim can have them all since they don't really mean much as far as I can see and since there's no prizes involved I don't even know why they are there. I liked it better when we had names for the more posts we made. Before that there was nothing except your name and when you joined and even that is not right since Mike changed the format back in March of 04' since some of us have been here since 2000 or before. Aloha,Kokua
I thought it was cool to see that video and the techniques used,
especially how he used the sandle as a sanding block.
did i get any points!?!
the Riley balsa vid after Balsa Bills vid
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…hello,
the balsa boards made by most there in Ecuador, included A. Kosminski s are hollow but not chambered.
I buy my Balsa from Jimmy Z, that is one of the Balsa shapers in
Ecuador; and is the way that ACE say about that they are open to learn
and help.
There are cross-sectional pictures of boards on Kozminski's BalsaFlite website that seem to show interior balsa chambers. What's the difference between a hollow balsa board and one that has interior chambers?
These are shots a solid wood chambered, then there are the frame and spar hollow construction and at one time in Ecuador a company was building a solid blank, minus the rail piece, flipping it on edge in a really big band saw, sawing in from the nose,following the deck line, then the bottom line, leaving a skin like in chambering, but then filling the void with EPS.
I repaired a bout 2 dozen of them, they were too thick, when the rails were turned or the nose and tail thinned to a"normal" thickness, they all hit the foam filler
Thanks.
Back in the '80s, Kozminski's boards had a foam core. Now it looks as though he shapes his boards around a hollow core with spars joined to form the "skeleton." One of his boards in cross-section looks like the wing of an airplane.
I talked to Skip when I was down there about foam core’s. He told me he made some. Then they could not get a good glue that worked for bonding it all together. So back to basics. I think the combo of getting styrofoam and the right glue just made it not worth it. I told him and the others about “Gorilla” type glues just not easy to get in Ecuador. Somthings we take for granted can turn into PHENOMINAL hassels in Ecuador. It is hot humid and nobody wants to deal with new hassels today," manana" as they say.
Cool photos. I don't think I've ever seen the chambers buttressed like that before. Kind of brilliant.
Thanks for sharing.
Does anybody know anything about side pipe fins. They look interesting but do not know the performance difference between side pipes and traditional tri-fins.
I had George Robinson build me a 9’ balsa board. He is a craftsman who did a superb job. The board is beautiful.