found this on ebay. anyone know anything about these plans?
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=22710&item=3696245283&rd=1
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Swaylocks is free though.
very true, but full scale plans and templates are very appealing, in a ‘aircraft-modeller’ sort of way.
I suspect that if I try a wooden board, I’ll be using swaylocks as my inspiration, rather than these plans
only that I sent him email a couple of times asking questions and he never responded. What he has on ebay looks good though.
If you thinking of building a hollow check out Paul Jensen’s
http://www.HollowSurfboards.com
If you get the ebay plans let us know if they are worth while.
I like the way he says “board length 9’ can be stretched to 12’” ha…
I prefer Pauls site, Swaylocks and everyone on it who has an opinion or feedback.
I have learned more than I could have imagined from everyone here.
Having plans sort of takes the fun, stress, learning and ingenuity out of the process.
Hicksy
Board plans?
I thought YOU were the shaper and designer.
Now I find out you are just rough copying someone else’s design!!
Hello Lee,
Using board plans does not mean that you are just ‘rough copying’ someone else’s design. Plans are a starting point for a design concept and can often be altered or customised by the builder. Then there are true custom plans, which are drawn to the builder’s requirements . . . using these is not ‘rough copying’ either. Even if plans are copied exactly, with timber you never get two boards the same anyway.
All board designers are influenced somewhat by what they have previously seen and used. This is a practical reality.
The ones that get me are the ones who want to design their own board but have to ask everyone’s advice about everything, and are trying to do a standard thruster anyway!
Regards, Roy
It could be said that anyone who designs their own thruster is just ‘rough copying’ Simon Andersons design. That would be ridiculous. Some good ideas (like the wheel) are passed into the public domain and are depersonalised that way.
I call bullshit on the ebay “plans”. Looks to me like they are just a copy of the 1935 Popular Mechanics plans… lofted to full size. Anyone competent to do the woodwork should be able to draw up plans for a spar construction wood board.
If not, send me yer money and I’ll send you the 1935 plans, two versions… Better that that, email me at cgshawaii@netscape.net and I’ll email you the plans.
BS on this Brit selling wood board plans.
In the boating world there are hundreds of designers and builders offering plans for a huge variety of small timber craft. Many of these designs are ‘copies’ of earlier designs, or are designed as a well known type, and are often advertised as such. There is a ‘live and let live’ attitude in the small boat building world which is far more mature than the back biting and ‘bullshit calling’ which goes on in the surf industry. So what if a guy from the UK offers a set of ‘malibu’ plans? Who are you to call ‘bullshit’ on him just because they resemble an earlier design? If you are doing this because you are from Hawaii then realise that the UK has many competent boatbuilders. Like it or not, wooden surfboard building is a branch of wooden boat building, and is an international movement. Lighten up! There are too many grumpy old men around already!
Swordie, I bought the plans and made this board from them. It’s my first board. I not sure if it was me or the plans, but the bottom rocker was way too abrupt. (see pics) I have since removed the bottom and sanded out the bumps in the rocker and about to replace the bottom. It would’nt catch waves in its previous state. Hoping for better next try. The full size plans made it quite easy to trace the shape of the rocker to the wood but the application of the nose and tail sections are not very difinite. basically its 3 pieces of 1/8" ply glued together for the stringer, 1/8" spars, notched along w/ the stringer every foot. The nose is a single piece of 1"x12", the tail 2 pieces of 1"x12" glued together, notched on the sides and middle to fit stringer. The rails are 2 1"x4" glues together and bent, then notched to fit the spars. The deck and bottom are again 1/8" ply. No cloth needed just resin. tom