Wow!!! That turned out great!!!
Thanks man, my pleasure for sure. Great to meet you, that board is so clean, you’ve done a fantastic job! Looking forward to seeing it all done.
Bitchen
Thanks for the kind words guys!
Board one is finished and board two is about 3/4 shaped.
I’ll get some pics tomorrow and post em.
Pretty much finished with board two shaping.
Slight roll in nose to basically flat, but not quite, in the center and flat through the tail. (Nose photo makes it look like more roll on one side than the other but that’s just the camera angle,)
Deck is almost completely flat aswell.
6’4 x 22 x 2-7/8 - us blanks blue foam - shaped weight is about 5.5lbs - don’t have a scale that would register just the blank so I had to weigh myself with and without the blank and do the math.
Now to glass
Well I just finished up the second board. Tried to stick with less is more as far as visuals go.
I am really pleased with how this one finished up. - it has three deck patches that are super faint ( you can see in person but they didn’t photograph well.
hope to get it in the water soon.
Clean! Looks awesome.
Wow, those look great. Ride report when you can. Any pinline tips?
Great work!!!
Pinline tips! Haha get saltyjon to do them for you haha.
I only did the resin ones. If interested I could tell you how I do them and all the tips I’ve worked out.
As for ride report. I rode the 6’4 and the 5’10 was tossed around between a few guys. We surfed some mushburger waves around waist high. Super loose. The young kid who surfed it loved it and was ripping on it. I struggle in the small surf. Every one of these boards I’ve made with this fin set up I think is gonna be stiff… Most deffenetly not the case (still a mind bender). Very responsive and active. I need to get them out in waves with a more open face. I’ll keep you posted.
Nice boards, WideAWAKE! Mike
oops…wrong thread
great looking boards, i have a nearly finished comp sand (fake-wire 2) which i’m tempted to try as a ‘twingle’ but might put extra side plugs in, so i could try it as an asymmetric, with a single on toe side, and a side bite on the heel side, what do you think? or is the backhand performance ok as it is?
I don’t really have any complaints about the system as is but I know that bill has recommended very small trailer fins set on the rail ( almost all the way back) for a little added performance in bigger surf.
If you search the archives or even google you can find images of boards he has made with the trailer fins.
I have not done it yet but will at some point on a good direction specific wave (maybe rincon). Drop one fin and its an asymmetrical lay out and if you are running an asymmetrical foil on the fin it will be foiled as if you have a fin the is twice as thick. If you have never run a thick foiled fin, for me it was a bit of a game changer.
Maybe Bill will chime in and correct anything I may have misspoken or add to anything that could use a better explanation.
will probably go for it, and make a couple of asymmetrically foiled bamboo fins, but in the uk, ‘direction specific’ waves are a rarity… more often closing out over head and a half… Do you think about 8" fins, or a little smaller, for a 7’2" round pin, (eggish) heavy, (by current thinking ) is about right? Thanks for the speedy reply!
Jonty- whatever template you would run as a single fin - this fin setup is a direct swap. I have had great results with both the yater template I’ve run in my smaller boards and bills gun template I’ve run in my bigger boards.
Everyone who rides them, including myself is very surprised at how well they respond. The mind says it will be stiff and only go straight. Not the case at all.