I am about to make my second longboard because the one I did last year is not wide enough 21 3/4’’ , 9’2’’ long and 3 1/2’’ thick.
This one it’ll be 9’ x 24’’ x 3’‘-3 1/4’’ good enough for the shity Mediterranian waves.
Now the question is, what you guys think of the rocker 2.24 tail and 3.50 nose?
now this is the outline and the specs
I think if everything goes nice and smooth I’ll try a wooden nose and tail
2 things.
#1 choppy conditions??? Maybe a little more nose rocker 4"?
#2 how you gunna get your arm around it? SUP handle?
Board looks very flat through the center portion.
Mattwho is right, more rocker.
Look at US Blanks longboard blank catalog for average rocker numbers.
I think those dims will make a good glider, but not so good of turner.
24"?.. no challenge… or am I just a gibbon??
(anyways, longboards go on heads… ain’tcha seen Endless Summer ya hodad?)
ok, I modified the flat portion of the rocker and also the nose to 4’'.
about the 24’’ wide, I am gonna get my arm around it where the wideness is about 23" or just carry it over my head hahahaha
what u think now?
about the wooden nose n tail I am thinking on using aluminium tape when shaping the wood. like this i will not screw the foam with the grinder/sander.
mo betta now
you could always use one of those SUP handles like Mattwho mentioned
as far as the wood - makes you wonder how Roger Hall does it!
“Soft top” here Wow!
ohhh Huck, awesome tail got that fishy. That’s too much work for a rookie shaper like me.
with SUP handle u mean this right?
Yup.
Perhaps knowing what natural rocker was, in the balsa era, will be instructive. The best/ideal rocker was 3 1/2 inches, nose AND tail, on a 10 foot board. About 3 inches, nose and tail, on a 9 foot board. rocker apex was behind center, on a Pig, and at center on a double ender. Performance of most boards, at that time, was hampered by poorly designed and incorrect placement of the fin.
I’m only 5’8", and carry a 23 1/2" wide, 3" thick longboard no problem. Especially easy if I carry it with the deck against my body. So, I would think 24" wouldn’t be a big problem.
I’m with you there buddy… I reckon some of the guys on here are ashamed of their T-Rex genes.
GO PRIMATES !
then no sup handle and i’ll go for 24, because these days i was thinking of making it 23 1/2.
Another question:
tail rails - sharp rails or round?
Somebody knows whats the difference between them?
Linda Benson Makes a little hook handle that you can use for people that don’t have Chimp arms.
And joe blair is using handles on his big guy surfboards - no shame brah
I appreciate the history lesson Mr. T! Back then, was it a matter of selecting pieces that had a righteous rocker to make a particular blank? Or was there lots of cutting, bending, and gluing to make rockers happen?
Joe makes really nice Big-Guy boards.
Some look like mini windsurfers.
Nice and foiled out.
Joe is classic.
Learned many good shaping tips from him.
Back then, (1958/1959) I would drive from San Diego to General Veneer in Southgate, to hand select the balsa, both for lightness, and rocker of the individual timbers. The most rockered and lightest would be in the center, and the heavier less rockered toward the rails. No bending to speak of. You really did not want any stored tension in the wood. In those years the wood for a 9’ 6’’ x 22’’ board would cost $20 dollars, and the glass and resin would cost the same. Ahhh, the good ol’ days, eh?
Bill
Got me feeling so inferior I was thinking’ with old age maybe they shrunk! I could get my arm around the last generation Performer (what? Let’s say 23” wide) funny thing Dewey couldn’t and carried the thing on his hip! I loved windy days…
Measured my beast 10-6 24” on the button. My fingers just make it by a nervous grip doing’ the cobble stone hop @ C rite spot!
