A friend passed on a couple second hand 6’2" “fish-like” blanks to me to mess with…They are both standard PU blanks. I have no idea what to do with them, but want to do SOMETHING. I’m afraid if I shape a fish or something, they’ll just snap, and I don’t have the proper tools to rip the blanks and install stringers myself…Ideas?
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have a friend help you put stringers in - not that hard
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do a balsa deck inlay (I have balsa you can use)
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agave perimeter stringers
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uber glass job, it won’t break
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there is no number 5
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trade w/ someone for a different blank
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glue them both together and make a 7" thick fish
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number 9. Number 9. NUMBER 9…
"6) there is no number 5 " Ha! LoL!
I made a bunch of fish in the 70’s with no stringer or just a colored glue line and they went fine. Seemed to
last as long as other fish. Granted, they were 5’4" to 5’8" and 6oz bottoms with 4/6oz decks and glossed, and
it was the 70’s… …and, number 9, number 9, number 9
I like a combination of #4 and #7. Call it the pufferfish.
LOL…Gee THANKS guys. Ok, let me ask you this.
- Anyone got some other blank they want to get rid of for one of these stringerless 6’2"s? They look fine, but I haven’t even touched them yet. I’ll trade one for an EPS to try, or whatever…I’m open, let me know.
Keith- That is WAY too much work for me (the balsa inlay, agave perimiter stringers, etc…). I’ll leave all that stuff to you and your cronies.
17.) a Spoon!
Anyone have any “how to” links on spoon making? That might be fun to try…
I know George must have been glassing today and without a mask,
but I don’t have a reason for Keith’s post,
you guys are just ripping it up for a Monday!!!LOL
(I hope you both realize nobody under 35 gets the number 9 referal,
my school kids just give me a blank stare)
Anyway, Ten, if you are shaping boards you have enough experience
to put in your own stringers if you want. Just snap a chalk line, cut
with whatever, block sand square, and glue in a piece of tempered masonite.
Plane to the surface of the blank on the most level side and you’re good to go.
Or just follow Georges advice and do a glue line. We surfed a lot of boards with
glue line stringers in the 70’s and with a good glass job, they held up just fine!!!.
Like Keith said, there is no #5 (write in your own, its only shaping)
Let us know what you decide and include pics, we all like to see what everyone is
up to…
BKB
ah, just a hard day at work.
Tenover, you can do any of those things, none of them are hard. Just good clean fun.
Oh, except the spoon. THAT is a lot of work. Really…
PS Number 9…anybody remember Los Beatalos Cubanos?
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(I hope you both realize nobody under 35 gets the number 9 referal,
my school kids just give me a blank stare)
I’m 23…and I got it (but I’m special like that). Perhaps I’m wise beyond my years…or maybe I was just born in the wrong decade. Probably the latter. Just the same, you know what they say…if you remember the 60s…you weren’t really there.
Si’, KM:
Lucy en lo cielo con burritos!!!
Shipman and I ended up with an extra Komatex (plastic) stringer based on a Clark 6"2"C.
You can have it. Planes like butter!
Ray
I don’t think you need a stringer on shortboards if you use epoxy resin. Especially fish. I’ve been doing them that way for a little while with 2lbs EPS and they work great. this is a stringerless 5’8" retro fish.
Stringers look nice though, so I just picked up a 6’2"C PU with stringer for my next one. You may still be able to get them from the Sorrento Valley blank company that is going out of business - $40. He advertized on here and Craigslist.
tenover,
I have a marko eps foam blank, that i’d trade you up for. I also have some bamboo, that i was going to use as a stringer and fins for mine. The blanks are 7’4’’ I think. I was going to cut mine down to get a fish-shape out of one. I’m in OB and have a garage set up similar to yours. I have a saw and a chalk line, and some ideas for getting it back together.
Hey stinkbug–do you mind if ask you some personal questions? Like what’s your weight, your board’s dims, and your glassing schedule? Do you feel it flex or twist? Have you broken any?
Thankis!~
Sure janklow. I asked Greg Loehr at the Los Cerritos seminar if he though you could do stringerless with his resin. He said yes and that there were other ways to add stiffness than to use a stringer. So I started light and figured I’d add stiffness to the next one if it felt too limp. I did use warp E cloth though and for the first one I did longer than normal rail laps.
I’m light - 140lbs - and I glass my boards light too - 2x4T, 4B warp E cloth. I use RR 2000 and glass in relatively warm temps but don’t post-cure in an oven. I’d like to do that but with a shaping bay, 2 EPS foam blocks and a ping-pong table in my garage I’m not sure where I’d store it. The board in the pic is a 5’8" x 20 1/4" x 2 1/2" with a swallow tail tip-to-tip of around 11 or 11.5". The rails are pinched - maybe a little more than a typical KG. I posted a pic of it not too long ago. Honestly I can’t feel any flex in that board. I feel some flex on my thinner, narrower shortboards but it’s subtle and is more of a springy feeling than a limp feeling. Feels similar to new PU/PE shortboard to me. Haven’t broken one yet. 6’6" is the longest one I’ve made and it worked well in 10’ faces at Middles last October. I’m going to start using a little heavier glass but that’s more to weigh the boards down than to stiffen them up.
I’m not familiar with Komatex. Is it stiff, or is it more for looks?
Brand name for PVC foam. Never mind.
- (shoulda thought of this one before) Groove & wrap your board in criss-cross carbon tow before glassing. Will look awesome, too. (I have a roll of it sitting around, too, ifn’ you want to try it.) Sheesh. Or, you could twist it up and use it for power rods, but I think that’s been done.