!!First foam build!!

Hey sways,

I’m about to embark on my first board foam board
built, needless to say excited, nervous, all around stoked! So far with
the help of grant at FAOM E-Z I narrowed down the style of board I
wanted and chose to make a nose rider as I surf SanO’ quite regularly.
I used adobe illustrator to input all my mapping points, nose,tail,wide
point etc. and went from there. Next was an early morning drive to
kinkos to have them print out a full length template. I selected the
9’8" y from US blanks again at FOAM E-Z put down my outline and made my
first cuts! Totally nerve wracking experience for sure, so afraid ill
screw up but i know I will and am looking forward to learning from that
future mistake! So for the moment ill leave you guys with those first
cut pics and hope you check back in to see the progress!

Thanks for taking the time to check it out!

9’6" Nose rider Model name to be decided (four doors special???)

18 1/2" nose

23" wide point 5" back from center

15" rounded diamond tail

Thickness undecided…

 

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looks good so far - the guys at foam e-z are great to deal with.  keep us posted!

what a nice blank!

:wink:

 Got the rail cuts out of the way yesterday, then cleaned up the outline, power planer was way nerve wracking, much fonder of the surform but sucked it up and went ballz out...glad i did looks sooo much better now! More updates comming soon!

Thanx for checking in on the progress, oh and still open to names for her when she's finished![img_assist|nid=1051058|title=first cuts 5|desc=who is this guy???|link=none|align=left|width=0|height=0][img_assist|nid=1051059|title=rough outline|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=0|height=0]

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