I love making schitzo boards. Facebook $25 beater board revamps are a way of life.
Killdozer was my first one, super super rough. Sanded the hot coats off to make it lighter. Used a mixture of boat resin, normal epoxy, PVC plumbing epoxy, and pretty much whatever I could find to staple this together. Honestly fucking rips it’s gnarly.
Octoboard was given from a friend who paints and doesn’t surf. Just resined in the graphic and cleaned out the fin boxes. Kinda grommy board, can work with a long enough period.
Divine Light is a single fin 6’3" 18 3/4" and is fun for wider carves. Can’t seem to get the hot coat on without those little bumps on the top. Tight turns slip out or over-rotate, kinda goofy fun.
Working on a Battle Axe, gonna give it a ‘Holy Axe’ vibe with a crescent nose. Should be a wicked novelty board.
There’s a bunch more random ones in my garage, these are just some examples.
What’s your most experimental board you’ve made, and how did it ride? Dying to see more loons out there
like the photo in finless it doesn’ t ride, it spins off from the longer side,
it paddles bad cause it turns to the longer side and as a plus its hard to duck-dive because you don’t have where to put your feet.
its a way to big disporportion.
last week i routed holes on it for fin plugs.
when i have more time i am gonna finish it as a twin.
will post photos and give feedback.
cheers and good waves.
What’s the name of that board the Sway’s bro makes? Betty?? Millie?? Sally! That’s it. She should have her pic on this thread. I don’t think Sally is “strange” though. Unique! Very Unique!
Because i am a fifty years engineer i build academic (too much) boards nothing crazy for 33 years. Perhaps the most crazy project is this 200l Hybrid windsurf/flatwer sup.
Full cork/glass/carbon sandwich. Full carbon retractable daggerboard.
When I first got back into building boards I made a few mistakes. When I quit shaping and glassing in ‘71 or ‘72, the only multi-fin boards around were “Twins”. I had only done single fins with the early Bahne box or a Glass-on. Having NO idea about placement and without looking at an example, I did a single fin with sidebites. Instead of “Towing in” ; I towed out. As soon as someone pointed it out, I snagged the board and redid the sidebites. Completely unnoticeable repair. Got it done before too many other people laughed at me. Another time I over toed sidebites and crossed them up in their alignment with the nose. Years later I did a repair on the board and after noticing that they were crossed up was able to move the FCS plugs over a bit. The guy who owned the board was a fair Hawaiian surfer, but I don’t think he noticed the difference before or after. Since I am a known proponent of “Shape First”; I will also admit to getting the rocker in the wrong place on a longboard once. I realized this because I kept the board and rode it for awhile. It was squirrely and difficult to ride even for an advanced surfer as I was at the time. Even in perfect waves at 1st Peak or Sewer Peak it took quite a bit of adjustment to ride. The board was so pretty though that I sold it easily.
