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Scott - that was a great thread, don't know how I missed it! Pretty sure I have seen this board in person, wish I had taken more pics of it. Great follow up with the weight and ride report, two critical features of any board, but esp. with hws.
You're right, these boards (hws) are labor-intensive. But if I follow the dates on your thread correctly, this one was in the oven for a year and a half? That's epic, fer sure! You still riding it?
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I am still riding it. It is a great board. I want to take it up to Plaskett Creek this year. I think it would work well on that wave.
Edit: Yes it took a year and a half. I had several starts and stops on the project. At times I got frustrated with the project. I would put it on the shelf for several moths, and work on other projects. We also had a new baby in the middle of the project, which kind of limited my shop time. I'm glad I finally got it done.
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BTW, I always enjoy your posts and your projects. You and I seem to do similar things, from opposite ends of the spectrum. I'm OK at math, not great, but I use almost none in my surfboard builds. Computer shaping programs? Never. I come at this whole boardbuilding thing from an artistic point of view, I get bogged down quickly in statistics etc. You thrive on that stuff. You remind me of my brother. We used to build model airplanes as kids, and his approach was just 180 degrees different from mine.
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Haha... Thanks. I wish I had your artistic ability. I hear you about using computer shaping programs. I try to use them as little as possible. I hand drew the outlines and rocker curves on my last couple of boards. I just used the masonite templates that I had available as French curves. It is nice to be able to step back 20 feet to look at a full-sized curve, erase a part of it, and go back and redraw it until it is perfect.
I was initially trying to come up with a more efficient build technique with my HWS computer program. I figured that if I was able to design all the parts with the computer, print out full sized templates, and make precise cuts, then everything would just pop together like legos. In a way that did happen, but gluing everything together took way longer than I expeced. I now see that the key to making an efficient HWS build is to minimize the number of in-series glue-up steps.
I said earlier that I would never build another HWS using the same method, but I may do another one someday using another method. :)
