**Five Day - Build Your Own Board Workshop
Monday, July 4 to Friday, July 8, 2011
Vista, California - USA**
This classes will have up to ten participants build their own boards and at the
end of the class the boards will be ready for glassing. Tuition is $800 USD per
person, with materials extra, typically around $50 per foot of board length. A
"How To Build A Hollow Surfboard” CD ($100 value) and a Frame Kit of your
choice ($200 value) will be included in the cost of the class.
What’s NOT included: Food and lodging.
Booking deposits of $100 are required.
This will be the only
workshop in the USA
for 2011…
Building a Hollow Wood
Surfboard is significantly more complex than building a foam board. It is more
like building the wing of an airplane. The method I teach results in a hollow
board that is stronger and more durable than a foam board, with a ride “feel”
that is unique…resonant like a wood musical instrument.
The finished boards are museum quality gorgeous, but that is secondary to their
ride quality. Wood boards typically feel heavier on land, but feel like a
lighter board in the water. The slightly heavier weight of a hollow wood board
results in a board with more drive and momentum that catches waves easily and
rides well down the line, through flat spots. The design of the lightweight
inner frame and the thin tensioned wood skins allow for an efficient energy
transfer between the wave and the rider. These boards are not intended to be
wall hangers unless the wall is six feet of moving water.
During a workshop, under my guidance, you will build a hollow wood board
starting with the assembly of a supplied frame kit. After that, you will create
the deck and bottom “skins” from very thin solid wood strips, fiberglass and
epoxy. Next, the skins are attached and tensioned to the wood frame. You will
then build the outer rails onto the board with bending plywood and cork.
Finally the rails are hand shaped and the board is given a light final sanding.
At the end of the class the board you have just built will ready to take home
to be glassed. We will likely build wood fins too…
My qualifications: I started shaping foam and fiberglass boards in 1977, and
twenty five years later in 2001, I independently pioneered a completely radical
new method of building Hollow Wood Surfboards.
The Jensen Method of creating hollow boards has resulted in surfboards being
built on every continent on Earth including Antarctica…!!!..I
have taught workshops in Australia,
California, France,
Holland, Ireland,
Japan, Portugal, The Isle of Jersey (U.K) and Washington State…
For more information and to register
for this class go to this link >>> http://hollowsurfboards.com/fins.htm