My First Board Micro Fish/Hybrid thing

I had a board that had some major delam so I was gonna pull off the old glass and put some new stuff on. When I got it off it was so bad I didn’t want to deal with it, so I decided to get some practice on shaping rails. I cut a little bit of with a hand saw and worked on blending a hard rail into a 50/50 which turned out great. Then I flipped it over and did the other side. It was good too but the board was really nasty because there was still some glass on it in some spots. It was all outa shape so I decided to make a tiny “midget” board. And here are the results: a 4’1"tall 13"wide micro fish/ hybrid looking thing. I just freehanded it with a hacksaw, and used a hand plane(probably the dullest one in the state of Texas) and a broken piece of surform blade, and some hedge clippers to cut the glass off. I think I’m gonna fill in all the holes that the dull plane butchered into it and glass it. I’m not sure why though. It’s got a single concave into a double into channels running out the back. Sorry if it makes some of you shaping gurus cringe…Haha. It made me want to start shaping even more and I’m gonna do it as fast as I can. From what I could tell the rails are pretty symmetrical in terms of shape(not board shape cuz freehanded it). Here’s some pics. (The foot is for sizing purposes I wear like a 9)

Here’s some pics of the “Ghetto” tools.

Classic…Now go buy a blank and have at it.

Go bucky go as a shot at it You done good boy ,damn good…pull a template from another board an cool some of the severe changes to somthing more pleasing to “your” eye it wont take long looking at it steady for a day or so you will see places you wish to refine the eye of a shper is foever questing higher refinements…the fact that its to the body board length is a swell experemental length and the cost of materials is just right…cheap or free…ambrose…nice pictures all of em…cluck politix

surfin’s more fun

maybe you should glass it as a paipo, or a skimboard instead!

man thats crazy…when you said hedge clippers i pictured those clippers with like 2 foot long blades…haha…chop chop…but anyway…i ripped the glass off a old board its so bad its 6,8, but might make a 4, something…every once and a while i think about making a skimboard or something out of it …uhhhhhh maybe…

It a great project to practice working the foam without the worry of wasting a new blank

Rock on!