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thank you. amazing!
Looks great. I have an older mid 90's long board that i will be repainting. Going for a wood grain over epoxy
That's not a "foooled the experts at first glance". If I saw that board in the rack at Stewarts I would assume it was Balsa. You're the guy with the Golden Iwata(or your gun of choice). Lowel---- now in PC, Or.
NICE!
I don’t know if I’m more impressed by the spray job or by the way you got the pics to change!?!?!?
nice work
a pro for sure
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funny thread title too
Thanks guys,
Still can’t figure out why the guy who ordered it would want a 1 1/2" wide cedar stringer in an EPS core.
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Here’s the thing glassed:
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Atomized , you are an artist…that board looks magnificent ! …but the true magic of wood , and especially balsawood , will always be in the performance ,and not the asthetics…
I completely agree with you. In all honesty, if you put this board side by side with the real thing, you can really see the difference, and the painted one doesn’t at all look like balsa wood. I fiigure most customers that custom order faux painted wood, want the look but don’t want to pay the price of a real balsa board, or they want the lighter weight of a foam board.
Beautiful work. I’m such a bad air-brusher that it’s easier to shape a balsa board… hat’s off.
As far as the stringer goes, here’s a hypothesis. When I was working with eps/epoxy, I did a lot of trials with stingers and end the end I figured that a significant balsa stringer set-up (single or multiple) would significantly cut the “chatter” inherent to the construction. Other woods like samba or poplar or cedar worked, though the balsa really did it for me. Confirmation came in the way it’s used for insulation purposes, and that long grain just sort of eased the vibrations out through the tail. A mid-density blank with that stringer offered a slight weight gain and a really smooth, reactive ride. This guy might be going for something similar?
A little history of Falsa Boards.
When they were making the movie Big Wednesday The Producers needed boards that where lightweight performance longboards that looked like The Balsa wood boards of the late 50's early 60's.
They heard about the work that Peter St Pierre, aka peter pinline. was doing on Boards. Most likely from Terry Lamb who lived in Encinitas and was the art director on the movie. Peter went to L A to airbrush a few boards for the movie. As they say the rest is History.
There may have been earlier falsa wood boards. I far as I know The Big Wednesday Boards really started a mini craze for for the newly re-emerging longboard market.
Beautiful. First one I ever saw was done in John Mel's Freeline factory. Painted by a local guy named Charlie in the early '90's. Dave Petersen on Maui used to do one out of Gott's shop once in awhile. But I think both of those guys would agree that is a great spray job. I can use a gun, pull a straight tape line etc. But would never even attempt "falsa"
McDing If you can do both those things then you can do a successful Balsa wood spray. Practice on a cheap artist canvas board. Wood grain needs to be subtle,use a regular small round artist brush for graining as well as the airbrush. a little bit darker or lighter coloring of the different planks.
I have a 9'0" that I painted with a 1970's theme, sanding that down and re doing with a falsa wood spray as soon as it stops raining here! This has been one very wet summer here.
The first falsa I ever saw was in 1974 in Florida on a California Company board with falsa rail panels that a guy at the beach had. He had just dinged a good size hole in the rail, and you could see the white foam under the paint job. Up to that point, I thought the rails on his board where real balsa. The first time I saw one actually being painted was in 1977 by Mike Hagstrom at the SNI factory in Solana Beach. I sure John Breeden and Peter St. Pierre where also doing them around that time.
That’s interesting artz…I thought those boards , or at least some of them, were shaped by Mike Perry ,and traditionally chambered from solid balsa logs ?..I had a photo of the balsa pin-tail gun…It was at Randys auction in '09 (?)…the one with the Bear logo…maybe some were balsa and some where falsa…
You are most likely right some were balsa and others Falsa . When Big Wednesday came out I was doing a lot of work for Hank Byzak. I was also working spaying tee shirts as well as doing wave painting. It was at that time I got a ton of orders to do falsa Boards.
I'm sure they were being done before that time. but it was that movie that made them popular. The board I did for myself was stolen down in Pacific Beach. From my friends house on Law St.
peter would havea better take on this then I would Maybe he could post something again.
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The first FALSA board I ever saw, was done by Gary Brummett, in late 1970. The board was in the 7 foot range, size wise, Each ''piece'' was individually ''grained'' and ''gluelined'', a real masterpiece. Someone brought it by the Surf Systems factory, on South Cedros, to show it off. Word in the day was that Gary had developed the concept and the technique.
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The first time I met Gary Brummet was in 1977 when I got my first industry job at SNI. As far as I know he was a glosser- pinliner then and hadn’t made the transition to airbrusher yet. Many glosser- pinliners made that transition to airbrusher when it was figured out that you could spray the pinlines on instead of using resin. They could already pull tape masterfully so the next obvious thing was to paint the whole board.
Brummet did incredible spray work at West Coast Glassing on Lightning Bolts in the late 70’s and early 80’s. This is some of his work:
[quote="$1"] Aloha Atomized, That Falsa board, by Gary Brummet, to this day is still the best I've ever seen. The only ''give away'' was the 1/8th inch Spruce stringer in the board. I really examined it up close. There were ''fiber streaks'', ''sugar spots'', grain whorles, and varigated color areas. All common to natural balsa. While there may have been some spray work involved, most of it was or had to be, hand done. The detail of each ''plank'' was truely like ''the real thing.'' I've seen and shaped quite a lot of ''real balsa'', which is why his work made such an impression on me. [/quote]