Just finished my first attempt at a retro fish and here are the photos as i know you’ll be asking for them soon enough chip.
5 '10 x 21 1/2 x 3 with a cloth inlay and homemade ply wood keel fins. Rode it yesterday and was surprised at just how fast they are, jeepers so much fun though!
Cheers KS.
Couple more photos.
Cheers KS
That is a HOT board! Job extremely well done.
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funky template, fabric inlay, ply keels. what’s there not to like? great job kitesurfer.
Nice board Kiter!!
Good to see someone else love the full cloth inlays. It’s easy, isn’t it? If you try a solid color cloth you can achieve a tint-like effect, even doing cutlaps. I think it would be better to put the cloth on the deck, you’d notice it quite stronger against pressure dents.
Maybe a visual effect from the pic, but this seems a quite modified fish template: wide point quite next to the nose and tail quite narrow. Is it true??
Thanks for the comments guys. Neira you’re quite correct it is wider in the nose than the tail by quite some margin but it’s not a modification of mine. The board design is taken straight out of the surfboard desgin and consturction 1977 manual that is available online. I think the board was a jim kistle design, i’m sure that’s what it said in the manual.
Neira, have you ever wrapped a cloth inlay around the rails? I’ve only ever done them onto a flat surface but imagine you could have problems with the cloth creasing on a rail wrap and being very visible!
Cheers KS
a girl i know wants an argyle surfboard. she wanted it to be painted but i thought a cloth inlay would be a hella lot easier