first board build

Hi all,this is a board i shaped lastnight at home. i set up a small bay in a spare room,made the rack last week from a diagram on the greenlight site.

 i have been getting a few tools and gathering all the information i could before i started ripping into a blank.

The blank i picked up yesterday morning off my local shaper gunther,it was a southcoast foam 6"3" green ultralite.

the board i decided to try my hand at shaping was a copy of a board that had last summer which although was an awsome board to ride,sadly only lasted me 3months.

I made the template for it from 3mm ply.

After reading as many board building threads and peoples advice on this site i was scared to use anything but the planer to attempt this build and although it was a little scary at first i felt realy comfortably after a few lite passes over the bottom.

I plan on glassing this board tomorrow if the rain doesn't ruin my plans.

I will be using sunbake uv cure resin and as far as glass goes i will be doing a 6 and 4oz deck and a 4oz bottom.

I also have a set of shapers S-plugs for the fin set up (thruster)

Anyway heres a few pics of my progress so far, id love to hear what you all think and any advice anyone has would be greatly appreciated!

YEEW !

this is a shot of the blank with the outline cut out. sorry if the pics arnt very good,i wasnt really planning on doing a thread or anything.

bottom unskinned

bottom

top skinned

pic

i missed a heap of pics cause i got so carried away once i got going, but heres the rest of em.

top tail

deck

bottom

il try get some better shots tomorrow,it has a single concave through the middle to just before where the front fins will go.

 

Nice board looks good! Just finished my first ,a 5’9" fish for my son, Shaping it wasn’t a problem, came out nice for first time… Glassing,well even with alot of experience in using it,albeit never on a board, was a learning exp ! I got it done but wow did I learn alot. Read these threads on here,especially on laps, squeege , and hot coating. Good luck ,really fun eh? I’ve already got my 8’6" blank from Foam ez ,gonna get foam flying on Saturday!

Looks good so far

Cheers guys!

oh by the way,the dims are 5"7"x19"1/2"x2"1/4" for doing punts !

Looks like a fun board. Fin set up?

hey orfin,il just be instaling a set of s-plugs in this and riding it as a thruster

bottom lam 4oz

hotcoat

fin plugs