Thanks for answering my questions guys, I appreciate the advice. There’s nothing like the feel of a chambered balsa, looks too.
Bill, the red foam T-bands look like A Rick- Barry Kanaiaupuni Model
"Cut a rough oversized outline, dome the deck and and foil it out to the
same dims as a commercial foam blank. "
That second part is often overlooked by occasional balsa builders - ever notice how so many balsas out there have those flat as a pancake decks? There is gold in this thread, thank you gentlemen.
Ready to shape.
After gluing all the pieces back together I cut the
outline and checked the foil in the center line and the rails.
Weight 15 lbs.
Rails banded and broken and ready to blend into the deck and bottom.
At this point I’ve done everything with the planer. Haven’t touched it with sandpaper or block plane except a little sanding with the block at the very tips of the outline.
hello BBill
apart from all the beautiful wood, the hard work, the difficult processes,
what are your plans for the kind of waves and style of surfing ?
is it for Floridian waves?
Wouter
FIRST CLASS!
Love the foam stringer.
Bill, that balsa board with the white foam center is beautiful.
Mike
Yeah. One time he put some termites in there. Then there was the three stringer he took to Costa Rica when we went down there in '92 for Greg Noll’s get together. He put a dead bird’s head in the knot in the center stringer. That did freak out some of the Peta types among the attendees. He had to point out that he didn’t kill the bird.
We went surfing the first morning in Jaco and Jim caught a wave and the next thing I saw was him walking up the beach with two halves. Fortunately he had a back up board. I was just sitting there on my board and I felt the water start moving and it staredt to suck out with a wave forming behind me and my board started to buckle just from the movement. I rolled off the side to relieve the pressure or I think the board might have broken. That’s one heavy beach break wave.
Mike (Cosmo), some lucky guy got that foam stringer board for Father’s Day.
Almost ready for glass. But what to do about the knot?
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JKP would stick a dead curled-up lizard, or maybe a spider, in there. Cast him in with a little resin and glass over....
In the true tradition of Nakashima …Celebrate the knot.