4est: She’s symmetrical in every respect (at least in theory, not including inaccuracies in shaping and the fin), and the same thickness nose to tail, with a slight bottom concave. Construction is all plantation grown redwood.
John: The interior is the usual maze of diagonal frames, and the fin is 7/8" thick witha maximum base length of 10", the actual fin base where it enters the board is around 7.5"
Benny: It’s been a while since I weighed a board, I have been just guessing weight wise, so today I found an old bathroom scale down at the recycling shop (price, 30c US). Anyway I stood on it (haven’t weighed myself for a while either ) and blow me down it was weighing about 20 pounds too much. . . went and weighed myself for a dollar at the Pharmacy and no, I have gained 20 pounds and the 30c scale is correct, so I bought the scale and started weighing boards. The 9’3" weighs 45 pounds ! I built it heavily on purpose (7/16" deck and bottom plus lots of meat in the rails) and had been guessing that it was about 40.
Pinhead: Arms are long enough to paddle the beast but not to get it under my arm. . . it’s too heavy to carry on one side anyway.
is the reason you would narrow the nose because …does it catch a bit as is ?
The current board doesn’t really have any problems, I just figured narrowing the nose would make the “swing weight” lighter and make it easier to turn. If the longboard will be surfed from the tail, then I don’t really understand what benefit having a wider nose would have other than in paddling/float and a 9’0" of just about any size floats me fine since I’m only 150 lbs.
Wanting to keep the weight down is also one reason why I’d prefer a narrower board of 22" max instead of a 24" or something like that (even if it makes it harder for my boards to have curve in the outline). The other reason for a narrower board is that it’s simply easier to carry and to get my arm all the way into the water while paddling.
Is that FIBREGLASS I see in the fin or has it been made with tree sap…please tell me it’s tree sap or you’ll kill the feral greenie label you’ve worked so hard at getting…
Is it in a fin box?, if so please tell me it’s made of wood…
My scales are wrong too, I reckon the SH shop and the chemists are in cahoots with each other…
I think I’d better beat it out of here so that the ‘performance’ longboard types can have a say, but a quick confession is in order. . . the fin is polyester and fibreglass, however to make up for that I set the fin into an internal wooden block, routing out the hole with a blunt screwdriver and a hammer (my chisels are chipped and used as resin stirrers) the resulting hole looked like it had been done with an axe, but I can promise that the fin is now in a permanent setting !
I hear that there’s a bit of a problem with all the scales in the Southern Hemisphere right now, the hole in the ozone layer apparently, don’t know if that supports a conspiracy theory or not, but the fact that the chemist and the op shop are in the same street is suspicious.
till next time,
Roy
PS I see underneath your Avatar a sentence, is it “Moderator slash Moderator” or Moderator stroke Moderator" ??
