hello all my name is shaun hopper, i live on the central coast of australia and i am going to let you watch me create my first board (code name ‘‘Bumble Bee’’). i plan to make a board that is basically a short longboard with a wide noes and tail. any body who would like to share thier experience with me are more than welcome to.
I started yesterday by firstly drawing my outline, i used the same method as the one out of shaping 101. I then cut out the half that i drew my template on. Unfortunetly i didnt get to take any photos of this step as my camera stuffed up on me. So for the bennifit of those who like to see photos of the steps i stop where i was and went to bed.
Today i woke up with a less cluttered head and a fixed camera.
I first used my surform to trim down to the line that i drew the night before. I thought i would have stuffed it up as alot of people have said that the first time they have used a surform the have dug in to deep, but i suprisingly went ok.
After using my surform i made a template out of thin MDF. This was verry effictive as it had alot of flex and folded to the rocker.
I put a brick down to keep the template from moving i then traced the template onto the blank with a firm line.
looking forward to watching this puppy take shape shaun, I’m positive I speak for most sway guys (ESPECIALLY CHIP!) when I say I love a good photo project thread!
keep them coming and take your time with it mate and it will turn out great!
OK well alot of progress has been made since last time so far i have sanded do0wn the blank to the right thikness, smoothed out the sides to make an even flowing line and shaped the rails. anyway here are some pics to help explain.
i used a little power sander that i bout for $28 and also a block sander to get the board down to the desiered thikness that i wanted.
foam is alot less dence than the stringer so when you sand the blank down you will need to use a little combi plane to shave the excess down i bout this little plane from www.shapers.com.au . witch is real good for shaving down the stringer on the nose concave. as a usuall plane would just bottom out ond not cut.
here is the outline of the blank it is also sanded down to the right thickness
here is a pic of me using my surform to make the outline more even and flowing (not to all dont rush this, as you dont want to slip and make a big groove in the rail)
i then maked out some guide lines at 1’‘, 2’‘, 4’’ apart these will make using a surform to shape the rails alot easier.
oh yaeh but before we start shaping the rails we need to make a ‘‘FRED’’ i used a bit of left over pine from my shaping stands 300mm long and used a plane to cut a 30degree angle
i then attached two surform blades facing opposite directions to the angle. then i cut my two 30 degree angles and combined them together to make a neat 60 degree angle
here is a pic of the angle
next i put my board in the stands ready to shape the rails
haha yeah i am trying to lear how to work photoshop thought i might much around with it a bit
today after alot of thinking i decided to cut 2" off the nose because it was looking to square and not flowing off enough so now i have reshaped it into more of a lonfboard looking nose. came out real great umm to give an example try looking at the beau young wombat nose it looks verry similar.
Sweet looking board mate!. I reckon a board like that would be a pretty fun little board, and a massive wave hog, great combinastion i reckon. What a great idea using mdf for a template, i am definately going to go buy some for my next board. Great pics too.
