My First Build Attempt

 

So first off I would like to thank everyone here on Swaylocks for all the
help and support and just for all the great info that is stored on here with
out it my first board would never have been made. I would also like to throw
out a Big Thanks to Greenlight for kit i ended up getting. And last but not
least i would like to say a Big Big thanks to David Girvin for all the help he
gave me I hope I didn’t annoy you too much with all my questions. I learned so
much from this experience and all in all i think i went pretty well there were
a few little things that i would defiantly try not to mess up for the next
board but I’ll get into those later.

 

And so no to the build

I bought an EPS foam blank kit from Green light and glued up the stringer and the blank

 

i then made up my template using some cardboard

 

 

Cutting it out was scared to cut close so i was way outside the line

 

Starting to shape the rails


 


 

Taking a little bit of a break for my Bros little one

 

 

Back at it finished shaping its looking pretty good i think didn’t mess up too much here.

the rails probably could have been a bit better but thats all part of learning

 


 

 

Decided that i was going to use the air brush for the first time this build has many first for me.

 

 

 

Note to self Airbrush stright up and down not from the side blows up the tape

 


 

Didn’t turn out half bad

 

First coat


 

Some how lost the lap pictures. I ended up not sanding them down enough so I had to more sanding on this stage than i really should have.

 

 

Got all set up to do the probox fin boxed This one turned out perfect was very pleased with that

 

This one not so fucking much hand slipped a little think i got a little cocky after the perfect first one nothing that couldn’t be fixed though.

 

Glassed in the boxes and had a little bit of an issue. turns out i didn’t sticky the template down very well and it leaked out the back and when i tried to take it off ended up cracking a chunk of glass off. Now thats a piss off already had to do a repair before i even finished the board

 

If anyone was following my leash plug thread a few days ago you might have seen this one. Lost the leash plug that greenlight gave me no clue where it went so i had to make my own, I took the end cap of a PVC pipe and placed a bar in it also added some channels in the sides and bottom to try and get the resin to lock with it. All that work was almost for not whe the drill bit i was using decided it wanted to make an extra large hole so ended up having to fill it with lots of resin was pretty concerned that it was going to get way to hot when i put it in so i put some ice on the top and bottom of the board and it worked out great.

 

Time to try and get that epoxy to shine. My arm hurts so bad its probably been about 8 hours worth of sanding

 

8 hours and I got a bit of a finish reflex a little bit YA!!

 

so there it is 5’10 19 2 1/4 Nose rocker 3 1/2 and tail rocker 1 1/2 single into double

I was just looking at this picture and it looks like my rail on the top isn’t smooth but in person it looks fine

 

Have to wait about a month or so before i get to try it out though

So I want to thank all of you guys here again and the next one will deffinatly be better. I learned a TON of stuff this one and im sure ill learn lots more

 

Chipfins was that enough pictures? i know you cant get enough of them!

 

 

 

any my pictures arnt loading great… any ideas worked the other day…

hahaha =) … i’m not laughing at you, i’m laughing with you, it’s happened to all of us …

it’s easier for me to post pics from photobucket. it’s free and easy.

let me know if i can help

all that work it took to make the thread lol and now i have to upload it all again… so annoying

If I do two photos it works......

If I do 3 or more photos it does not work......

????????

howdy chrisp,

most threads i’m seeing with photobucket uploads don’t show the pics at all, they either show a tiny blue square with a ? in the middle, or a photobox with a cartoon frog or a toad sitting inside it. on the other hand i’ve never had problems loading pics from my flickr & picaza accounts onto sways & T2S

cheers,

Ya fixed it!

good going Krep, board looks great! you're stoked!

Surfiber, i dunno what could be wrong... i've always used Photobucket and can always see the pics... maybe i'm the only one?

btw, after trying to tell my coworkers about Jeepneys and those little scooters with whole families hanging off of them, i finally pulled up some pics on google images the other day and had them all laughing.

Nice board mate, get it wet!.

 

I like the spray too, basic but it looks very good.

Looks about how my first board came out a few months ago, be careful! It gets addicting! im on my 7th board now and every one I do, I learn more and more to make the following boards better. I havent tried any of the airbrush stuff yet but looks cool. Looks like youve had some of the same problems I’ve had (rails having “hips”, getting cocky with fin plugs, weird laps that make sanding more difficult than it should be, blah blah) but that thing looks great for a first board. My first board was pretty terrible lol but the funny thing was is it still rode super fun despite all of my imperfections. Keep up the good work and let us know how the second one comes out.

What a great tool swaylocks has been!

Way to go, that is a great first board! Proceed with caution...surfboard building is highly addictive!

krep, check your inbox sent you a PM

howdy chrisp,

yeah i can see the board pics now. could be the office server blocking media site content-- even if they’re not all porn!

in my case i wasn’t laughing the first time i got a ‘habal-habal’ ride in 2005-- in GL, siargao, of all places-- off-road! hehe " ) 

cheers,

I like the design on it.