I composed a short slide show video on the build here:
http://www.wakeboardmidwest.com/forumsthreaddefault.aspx?itemid=4726
I am utterly amazed!!!
but I’m from California
I see other boards in the background???
When I was a kid and money was unavailable I would try to make things out of whatever I could dream up
have you tried them to see if they work?
Hey, what a show BigShow…they didn’t name you that for nothing.
I am truly impressed. I just watched a movie on Rodin and he doesn’t have anything over you!
I guess I can take comfort in that no matter how bad things get, I’ll always be able to make a board from takeout or delivery.
Waaaaaaaaaaay cool.
Thanks for the comments guys!
Ken Surf, I have a number of wakesurf boards. They include an Inland Surfer Red Tide, An Inland Surfer Yellow Loogey, A Trick Boardz Mojo XL, A Trick Boardz Velocity, A Trick Boardz Free Style, a Hyperlight Broadcast 5.6, a Walker Project F16, A demo Cyber Shapes board, the Kroger’s board is back there, there’s a 7’3" blank on the wall, my sub three pound balsa board, and there are a couple of wakeboards. I’m currently working on my first traditional surf board. For this board I’m starting with a foam 9’3" blank. There’s a nice resin swirl thread on this forum. I’m going to do something along those lines for art. I’m attempting to make a nose rider for wake surfing.
I haven’t ridden the Pizza Hut board yet. Otherwise all of the completed boards in my quiver work behind a boat. Even though I weigh 220 pounds I can surf the tiniest boards on a boat wake. The Trick Boardz velocity is a thin wooden board with a symmetrical, stretched out lemon shape. The ends are very pointy, more so than a pin tail. The Velocity is not very buoyant and is 52 by 18 inches. If I slow my boat down to about 8.5 mph I can still ride this board and even have fun.
I was just in California over the holidays and visited a surfing museum, I think it was near La Jolla. The museum seemed fairly small but was stuffed with boards. They had a wide range of interesting boards. In 2006 I painted a 2’ by 4’ rectangular sheet of plywood. I put a small fin at each end. We were able to wakesurf that board as well. That board was I my first home made board. You can’t go much more primitive than that. So, I guess you can surf about anything.
That’s me surfing a sheet of plywood behind my Mighty Centurion.
Tada!
Pure creative genius! “Reading” your series of photos was the most fun I’ve had on this site in awhile! Thank you for posting!!!
Here are links to short videos riding the Kroger’s board and the sheet of plywood.
Kroger’s board picture gallery: http://www.wakeboardmidwest.com/membergalleriesDefault.aspx?galleryid=113&p=10&s=#media
Skim That Video: http://www.wakesurf.net/media/showphoto.php/photo/252
Our first long board experience from 2007 : http://www.wakesurf.net/media/showphoto.php/photo/271
Wow – two thumbs up!
Ed, great to see your genius on Sways!
Somebody knows me:)
Brilliant stuff! Keep it coming.
Someone was interested in the design. I drew the design with MS Visio. I have access to a plotter that will draw E size drawings. It took four plots to generate all of the stringer drawings.
Here are the plots used to cut the stringgers. There are four sheets there.
Wow. Great job. Now THAT is thinking outside the pizza box. All it needs now is beer can fins and a cheese whiz leash. j/k
awsome board, how is the strength compared to the balsa board ?
SurfKid, SurfDadCPA challenged me to an ultra light wakesurf board building contest late in ’07. I’m assuming your not SurfDadCPA’s son James. The objective was to build a board that would support a 180 pound wakesurfer for five minutes. I built a balsawood board and he built an ultra light, stringerless EPS board. I weight about 220 and rode the balsa board for about 5 minutes and 30 seconds. After that the balsa board was toast. The board only weighed 2 pounds and 12 pounces. SurfDadCPA’s entry came in at about 2 pounds and had a very durable board. Here a thread on the balsa wakesurfer build: http://www.wakeworld.com/MB/Discus/messages/87668/497879.html?1192119812
The balsa board failed so quickly because the only outer coating was polyurethane and the board was not water tight (I thought it was, I was wrong).
The Pizza Hut board is much more substantial and has a glass skin. I expect that it will survive many rides. I’ll ride it early in the season and then I plan to shelve it until the 2008 Nationals Wakeboard League (NWL) Nationals (date and time to be announced).
Bigshow,
That’s amazing! If water get’s into the board is it ruined? Mike
I don’t think it will hold up well when, and I say when water gets in.
Hands down, cool!
I’ve made 1/4 scale pizza box models, but you really went for it!
Bigshow,
The “skim that” video is the best bit of pure fun I’ve seen in a long while!
Kendall and I exchanged some banter about wake-surfing some time ago, but I did’nt realise its possible to let go of the rope!
If I was’nt closer to a beach than a lake or river, I think I would be in a hurry to give that a go!
Do make and post a video of riding the pizza box board.
You’re opening the world up a little bit
Josh
Josh,
I ran a couple of contests in Ohio last year and the year before. I made videos for some of these. You can do a lot more when you riding a better board than a sheet of plywood. The 8 year old in this first video and pull of quite a few poses in cluding the lotus position.
2007 Scioto Wakefest
http://www.wakeboardmidwest.com/membergalleriesDefault.aspx?galleryid=157&p=3&s=#media
NWL Nationals Master’s Division:
http://www.wakeboardmidwest.com/membergalleriesDefault.aspx?galleryid=163&p=3&s=#media
2006 Scioto Wakefest:
http://www.wakesurf.net/media/showphoto.php/photo/250
There’s a lot you can do while wakesurfing. I’m just happy to ride.