Here’s the deck of James’ 8"1" with a brushed epoxy finish. The timber is salvaged ‘Pacific Red Cedar’ which is a tropical hardwood. I would never buy this timber as the company who sell it refuse to even say what country it comes from, and it is reputed to be of suspect origin. I have a pile of twisted sticks which were going to be burnt but they have scrubbed up quite nicely and were easily straightened with a bit of edge setting and epoxy.
They should have Wallace at the bottom of the Memorial Tower and Mel Gibson at the top. Scotland would have done better without him. A friend of mine who is descended from William Wallace told me that there have been two children born in his family who were christened William Wallace, and who both died before the age of five (In an otherwise healthy family). A few years ago, the latest young addition to the family was to be christened William Wallace, but there was opposition from many of his family members. I don’t know what happened as I haven’t seen my friend Peter for a while. The bloody hands of William Wallace are still unclean.
The deck is done, glassed it over the weekend, so much easier this time. Just got to sand and put the gloss coat on. Updated piccies attached. Working on the fin for the box next.
Ah yes, I noticed that Additive BE (my secret ingredient) was in the piccies after I posted it.
I find it aids in the curing process, if used properly the curing can be sped up to 5 times it’s normal rate… no kidding. Glass the deck add 800mls of Additive BE and the rate increases so fast that in a matter of minutes you can pick the board up and throw it in the water.
The tragedy of it all is that when you wake up you’re all sort of stuck to the board and looking like a reject from an epilady ad and there’s the issue of pulling out green grass from the lawn that’s mixed into the weave…
that’s truely tragic and most erie with it, I only meant the W.W. remark as a flipant observation on the uncanny resemblance to the aussie/american actor/twat who played W.W. in the film, that the statue bares at the base of the tower. Me ‘n’ the missus pissed ourselves laughing when we saw it, which seemed to really get up a lot of peoples noses.
Not one for history or reading about people killing one another but it seems to me that it’s never about race, just those with power using race to gain more power. The English monarchy have been screwing the English for at least as long as they have been screwing the Scots, Welsh, Irish or anyone else. Anyone who opposes that is good by me.
By the way that is a really cool looking board (Maipo spoon), I’ve never seen anything like that before, please explain to me, what does it do?
MMM (Jase)
“Everybody knows that the deal is rotten”…Leonard Cohen
Not that knackered really, a work in progress. It’s a Yamaha XS1100R 1983 model. All the painted bits are off for a respray. Just got to sell my car to rebuild the motor. It works but it’s old.
It’s funny how learning all about glassing has actually helped me with this bike. The fairing was cracked and missing a piece. I was able to rebuild it with the leftovers from the board.
Speaking of the board, the glass was a little soft still yesterday so I just knocked the tops off my folded laps.
Hey fblass. Spar Varnish is a marine varnish that is, as was previously stated used in a lot of boat work. A lot of stuff is passed of as “spar Varnish”, and it is good varnish. Good in the weather and water, but should be labelled “Marine Varnish”. The real Spar Varnish never really hardens. It dries to the touch, and isn’t all gummy or wanting to slip off or nothing, but retains it’s flexibility. I used real spar on my board because then it can flex a bit and not crack. Also my epoxy is UV sensitive (Fiber Craft Aqua-Set) and spar is really good at blocking UV rays. I’ve tried the marine type varnish before on cedar strip canoes(a few of the beat up and patched ones we use for whitewater are in the background on some of the pics of my boardbuilding) anyways, it tends to crack and chip off because you smash something under water, and then when the boat flexs, it just pops off. (boats are thin. 1/4" cedar, one layer of 6 oz. on either side) Since the board has some flex(especially in the rails and cork) I wanted to avoid losing varnish and so I forked out for the good stuff. I just sanded down the lam coat, and then varnished the sucker. Can’t see sanding marks, and as it is a little thicker, it provides a nice gloss once dry. Wouldn’t really use it if I could avoid it though, but I needed the UV protection. Best of luck man. - Red
No offense meant mate, the old XS11 is a decent machine, they must have been a different model for over there, the ones we got over here had no fairing and were a kind of laid back factory custom thing. I’m selling my bike to finance a caravan.
Hey that’s looking great, keep us posted on your progress. I finished glassing mine on the weekend, testing next Saturday if the weathers OK. Actually I don’t care if there aren’t any waves, I just want to get it wet.
Ok, here is my baby. I know every miniscule mistake I’ve made but it has been well worth it. Still can’t decide what shape to call it. Any ideas anyone?
Cool bananas Hicksy. You have a nice looking rocker and profile, I hadn’t seen that before. As it’s your first, the word ‘Original’ could be used, but you’ve got to name it, it’s your baby. Are we going to get any surfing pics? surfing pics would be neat.
Thanks Roy, the deck is almost perfectly flat up to around 22" from the nose. Most of the rocker is in the bottom with a slight concave in the nose. Nose is 50/50,side rails are around 60/40 and approaching 80/20 90/10 in the tail. I wanted to use the whole board, ride the nose and have the flexibility to turn it hard from the tail.
Name for the style of board - “Resonant Air-rider”
looking good mate, nice finish now. Are you getting all nervous about the big day yet? Don’t forget to take the camera crew. I hope it goes really really well and exceeds your expectations. Thought I’d update you on my progress as I haven’t done much recently until a couple of days back. I’ve started on the rails now and, totally messed it all up I think. Taken too much off with the belt sander and made the rails way too shallow. Ah well, carry on regardless, I think what I’ll do is to carry on as I’ve started then build out the rails a bit with some cork tiles or something similar then re-sand.
I’ve attached a pic of some M.C. artwork I thought you might like along with the progress pics. The palm tree in the picture was imported specially for this shot and has since died of hypothermia (not really, alive and kicking…scary thought, Madagascan fighting tree).
All the best mate and cogratulatons on a job well done. Don’t desert us now you’ve finished will you, you have to start on the next project straight away to really do the wife’s head in.
Any word from Gray recently, not seen any posts for a bit. Where are you?
Not wanting to attach at the moment, apparantly my pics axceed the max attachment size, I’ll take some more tomorrow on a lower resolution setting and try again.
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