… the “mal-adjusted” .
Thanks heaps , Hicksy, for your hospitality , the use of your blank , garage , the tail and nose block making , help with the rails , and advice on glassing with epoxy !
Okay , crew…here are some shots , I hope you enjoy them …
cheers !
ben
the butchered blank [not by me , this time , for a change !]
the bottom…
the deck… (a 9’3 Burford blank)
and …this was a few days later , after painting , noseblocking , and glassing the bottom …
nice colour and block, ben!
did you like glassing with epoxy?
I’ll attach a few pics of my latest board.
Jimmy yoshio shibata.
lessons learnt
9’ is a lot of board , when I’m used to shaping and glassing 5’7"s and 5’11"s !
nose and tail blocks are a fair bit / a lot of work [thanks again, Hicksy !]
glassing with epoxy… things I needed to learn…
a] relax ! I needed to stop thinking in terms of "uh oh better move fast , it will gel in 20 minutes ". Not with epoxy.
b] what seemed like “not nearly enough resin” , was in fact , enough !
…900 grams was what I used for the bottom , and the rails . I mixed four separate batches . Two for the bottom , two for the rails. And I ended up with probably 100 grams or more left over , so , following Roy’s suggestion , I whacked that in the freezer overnight for tomorrow .
Used a brush [That too, was different to squeegeeing polyester !!]
As I write this at 11pm saturday night , it is now still a little sticky [the resin , not the weather …it’s around 17C at the moment ]. So, I’ll let it “set” overnight , then flip the board and , hopefully, get to glass the deck tomorrow while Grant takes the three musketeers to nippers [junior surf lifesaving]
ben
I’m thinking about 1000grammes of epoxy should do for the two layers of 6oz on the deck…
a] relax ! I needed to stop thinking in terms of "uh oh better move fast , it will gel in 20 minutes ". Not with epoxy.
b] what seemed like “not nearly enough resin” , was in fact , enough !
Oh no, not another one of those “epoxyland” treads! 
haha…and , people thought I was “anti-epoxy” , eh ?
Here’s some shots of the in-between stages from the blank to the glassed board with nose and tail blocks in place …
here’s where the guy left his cigarette on the board…
after I’d skinned it , and re-templated it , “Hicksy” fine-tuned the rails for me …
cheers Grant …good job , mate !
ben
“If once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will” - Yoda
nice colour and block, ben!
did you like glassing with epoxy?
I’ll attach a few pics of my latest board.
Jimmy yoshio shibata.
thanks Jimmy !
that’s a LOVELY looking board mate …I’d love to give that a go ! [Are you coming to West Australia any time soon ?]
yes , I DID enjoy glassing with epoxy !
Some things I liked …
the time factor ,
the fact that I could do batches ,
the relative LACK of smell . [If I spent nearly two hours glassing with polyester , my head would have been spinning , for sure ! ]
I like how hicksy’s nose and tail blocks looked when the 6oz and epoxy hit them , too.
the weight is nice so far…The 9’ er weighs less than my 5’8 old kneeboard , at the moment …
ben
Er, Chippy, didn’t you say something about guys wearing thick glasses in another thread?
Nice blue color on that mal. Did I tell you that blue boards are known to work much better than others?
And Hicksy made very fine nose & tail blocks for sure. Keep up the good work, both of you.
thanks Billy !
'Hicksy" rips at making stuff , for a guy who basically sees out of one eye. Seriously .
here’s the man, making one of the blocks for the end of the board…
cheers !
ben
board sprayed…
nose and tail cut off…
attach the blocks …
glassing time …
my first time using epoxy resin ! [Done with a 4" wide brush ]
My advice, for the money perspective and ease of doing etc… if your gonna do a swirl just to do it, stick with the poly, but if you want do the epoxy, just make sure you mix up a good bit of extra and not choose colors that blend to well becuase its hard to get the resin to bleed in under the rails without mudding them up… Also, if your gonna do a double layer for the swirl side, do the swirl on one layer and then go back and do the other one after or something… trying to do a double 6 oz epoxy swirl was a night mare. Heat the epoxy too, then add the pigment and hardener and stuff.
Chip, I like the shape…Looks like you kept it on the wide side 
Bravo! Hips, too…and a nice square tail…
You better be careful! First, its epoxy. Next thing ya know, you’ll be raving about your cross step on “these beautiful little knee-high peelers that go on for 300 meters, mate!”
And all your photos will show just one fin.
See you there
(…yep , I DO ride a few “one finners” ! )
Deck glassed …2 layers 6oz…
board flipped , finbox installed .
Roy/Tom , you’ll probably enjoy this ?!
…“Caveman style” … I used… “exacto knife” , masking tape around box , cut out foam , chiselled stringer to required depth , evened out the bottom. Half filled the hole with resin and milled fibre, then masked off finbox with fin in it . Squared it all up. Let it set.
Okay , so here are the dimensions , for anyone who’s interested …
17" x 9’ x 21 1/2 " x 14 " [6" pod]
5" nose rocker
4" tail rocker
and yes , I’ve been practicing my cross-stepping , on hicksy’s "hixtreme’’ longskate , and a mate’s mals …
cheers !!
“chip”
wow Ben that’s great!
looking forward to seing more! when will you be taking a test ride?
“If once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will” - Yoda
You dont know the POWER of the dark side! Come with me and I will complete your training and together we will rule the universe - Darth Vader
wow Ben that’s great!
looking forward to seing more! when will you be taking a test ride?
Thanks Josh !
…whenever it gets finished .
Hopefully before Australia day , though [january 26th]
And , hopefully , gloss at least the bottom tomorrow … [epoxy takes a LONG time to work with , eh ?!]
Oh no, first epoxyland and now a potential “[=1][ 2]benefits[/][/] of a hotbox” discussion. This is surely the sign of the apocalypse.
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sanding time …
''Hicksy" now has a random orbital sander … STOKED !!!
