Boards #1-#5 almost finished, finally!

General Discussion
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hey everyone!

i just wanted to give you a little update. without swaylocks i couldnt have done it all. sways was and is my local shaper i come to to look him over the shoulder and learn. so thanks soo much everyone for sharing your experience and passion.

all of this took me like 6 months, to get the shed set up, get all the tools i couldnt make myself, to find sources for blanks, etc…

after months of thinking about how to get my blanks glassed, i finally found no other option than to get them in my car and drive them 1800kms to bordeaux to have the chacal glass them. it was all worth it.

getting started was a turbulent journey, and there where moments where i thought about giving up and that its all not worth it to be honest, but now its all good. when i got the first batch of pictures from chacal and saw the work he had already done, i could do nothing but lay on the floor. i was soo stoked.

i cant wait for the big box in the mail with all those boards in it.

http://thetrimproject.blogspot.com/

enjoy!

greetings from austria, where spring came to say hello, but left again to go somewhere else. :frowning:

thanks soo much!

trim chris

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1800 f@$%&!g kilometres? Those had better be some pretty outstanding glass jobs!

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Great looking boards for sure, but why didn’t you just glass them yourself? Plenty of info here about glassing, and I found it to be a very rewarding part of my first batch of boards. Just curious.

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hey!

why i didnt glass the boards myself?

well, i thought about that one a lot and for a long time, but after all,

  1. getting all the stuff, which is already at least double the price than in the US in europe, to austria, with all the shipping costs and such doesnt cost me that much less than getting it done professionally

  2. i have no heated space and i ve been shaping at -5 degrees celsius a lot, so i guess glassing in those temperatures and humidity wont really work out that well, + i just have a little wooden shed in my fathers garden right next to the neighbours house who wouldnt be very happy about stinky resin right next to his newborn child i guess.

  3. im plenty busy learning how to shape so learning how to glass at the same time would be a bit of an overkill i guess

  4. because im simply more interested in the shaping process than in glassing.

i want to give it a shot for sure, but i wanted those boards to come out as good as possible so glassing them myself wasnt really an option for now.

cheers,

chris

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the shapes are beautiful…the fish and the single fin look immaculate.

congratulations.