Hey all
I have a 7’ 1" US blank board I want to start shaping, when it arrived there was damage on the tail so the finished project will have to be around 6’ 8". Does anyone have some good design ideas for a board like that? Or maybe some specs I couild work off?
Thanks guys!!
Just keep the nose wide and round, widepoint a little forward and come down to a not too wide square tail.
6'8'' x 15 1/2-16nose x 21 -21 1/2 x 14 - 14 3/4tail?? I had a 7'6'' minimal/funboard. Very versatile, and lots of fun!.
[img_assist|nid=1056388|title=6’7 x 19.5 Mccoy Single Fin|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=640|height=165]How about 70’s single fin type shape. Here a pic of a 6’7" x 19.5. I ride a similar looking 7’ x 19.25" that is one of my favorite boards. 3" thick under the chest, foiled into a thin pintail. Very slight, gradual rocker with a little flip in the nose. Flat bottom, slight vee out the back. My 7’0 works from knee high to well overhead+. A very fun board. I’ve had minute long rides on big days on it.
How did funboards get the name seeing as though they are not that ‘fun’ to ride?
Some people worry about what other people will say when they ride something different. Some people don't give a fuck and have a ball on whatever floats their boat, whether it be long, short, wide, thick, thin, narrow, carbon fibre,EPS, XPS, cardboard.
I’m building this for the girlfriend, she has had lots of sucess riding longboards, so i’m hoping this board will help her get closer to riding short boards 
That outline looks great. do you have a rocker shot as well?
Sorry Beerfan I wasn’t having a go…I just think it’s a funny name for a style of board…
I broke my go to board last week, been riding shorter boards now for a while so my 6’2’’ feels like a step up in small surf. Finished a new 5’10’’ today but the last week I’ve actually been riding a 5’9’’ x 19’’ x 2 1/2’’ single fin. The little single fin does a mean cut back on a fuller open face…something different.
Howzit marsh, Good question and I agree most are fun boards except for Guns that are for seroius surfing. I have never heard a bord called that but have heard of funguns which are a cross between a longboard and a gun. They are good fun boards that are designed to surf larger waves then a normal LB does but not quite a real gun so they are fun guns. Aloha,Kokua
heya kokua,
not to hijack the thread but would you have pics & typical dimensions of said fun guns?
it’s my first time to hear of this, so i’m curious whether the wood + plant fiber HWS hybrid LB gun i’m laminating belongs to that category. i got the rocker template off a gun with a planshape cobbled together from 2 different boards, lengthened to LB territory
cheers,
Greetings Kokua,
I ride fun guns, and would describe them as just a wider, accordingly looser gun shape. My standard gun since the late 60’s has been an 8’0 RP 10 1/2 x 19 1/2 x 13 (for bigger SFOB, Santa Cruz, HI, Indo, blah, blah) …then last year, when first landing in HI for a April - June work gig, I picked up an 8’0 Mike Tuten RP fun gun (his description) from his personal quiver that taped at 12.5 x 21 x 13.50…after surfing it in everything from DOH Sunset to bigger south shore, enjoyed it so much had one made by my local shaper with the same dim’s after returning to the NW and it’s become my go to bigger wave board…much more paddle, and additional width/curve loosens it up without sacrificing hold thru critical sections …wouldn’t reccomend one for Pipe, heavy Indo or similar where narrower is definitely better, however, super functional shape for bigger waves in most lineups…
cheers,
Beerfan, good observation! On the topic of ‘funboard’ (or does alltrue mean, simply, a fun board?) …was maybe my second year of surfing i had a seven foot something board that i had a blast riding in waist to chest high waves. I ride different boards since then but i still think about the times i had with that, also I like the egg you posted and some others in the ‘egg’ thread. How i understand it, the snickering exists with the term funboard because it gets used to label a range of mid length shapes that cant easily be categorized and because of how well other boards do what they do at the opposite length ranges, which sets performance standards that cant be matched quite the same by something that isnt six foot and isnt nine foot six. But i dont see how it WOULDNT be fun to have a board that’s ok at a lot of things but not as good as this or that at it(IF you know how to use the other types to their full capacity),especially if you made it, and if you might not be a very good shortboard/ thruster surfer anyways, and because more than likely it will have its moments of total FUN at whatever length. Odd but it feels like i tried to rehash what the market word funboard means, you got a shortboard, a longboard, and then theres everything else, that is the nietherboard.
Howzit lcc, I think that is exactly what I was describing in my post, one difference is on Kauai they start at around 8'6" and one ofthe other threads has a picture of what I would call a fungun. I think it's one of the last pictures in the "What are you working on now" thread but not sure but it is a longboard with a narrow nose. In the end it is still a cross between a longboard and a gun Aloha,Kokua
Build a 6’8" out if it then! Good size blank there you have a lot of options.
I love a good funboard thread! Everyone seems to have a different idea of what a funboard is. And some deny that such a board even exists. These tend to be the same people that think if you don’t ride a 6’2" X 18 1/2" X 2 1/4" HPSB then you aren’t really surfing. Pfffftttt!!!
My wife rides what would typically be categorized as a “funboard”. It’s called a Stewart Comp Egg. At 7’8 x 22" x 2 3/4" with a tri fin setup. THe difference between this board and other “funboards” is that you won’t find this board in the stock racks, it’s custom only. The rails are thinner, the foil is more refined and the board as a whole is more finely tuned. It’s the fastest paddling midsize board I’ve ever ridden and is smooth as butter on waves. It’ll put such a smile on your face that you can’t help but have fun. So far, I’ve watched her ride it in waist high point surf to well overhead beach breaks with equal style and ease. I don’t care if people call these boards a crutch. This thing freakin’ rocks!
I love a good “funboard”.
exactly!!!
I like the look for channel islands “the robber” what are your thought on that in a 6’ 7" for a begginer girl?
All good marsh, i really like midlengths, they work well for most of the waves i surf. I quite like short wide little twins and stuff, but my midlength funboard is a great go to board.
Anyway, i thought they were all funboards??
depends how on big are you, how strong are you, what kind of waves will you be riding once you get your basics down…very hard to go wrong with an 8’ funboard/egg/mini longboard shape…girls arms are usually shorter so keep it around 21" to 21 1/2" wide so able to carry it easier…much easier to learn on than a shorter board, and will ride whatever you’re capable of as you advance…one of the gal surfers up here in the NW has been making amazing gains riding an 8’ egg since she quit struggling on a shortboard. Here’s a link to one of my shapers, check out the in stock boards, last two boards,egg and shorter women’s longboard…either one would be a good board to learn on with plenty of range for your progression…
Hello… except for a brief affair with a 6’ Mandella fish, my short board/gunny thing was/is ( soon for sale) a Stewart 7’10" Fun-comp, no longer in the ‘cataloge’…maybe it morphed into the Comp Egg Srpato mentions. A wider semi gunny thing…paddles, performs great. People checking it out were confused how to 'label it…‘fun board’ was the their fall back .