I’m in the process of converting an old discolored pipeline board into a modern shortboard. Unfortunately, I didn’t have a wide board to work with, so I’m calling this a swordfish. It’s just shy of 18" wide and 6’ long. I hope it floats me well enough to be fun. I’m planning on setting it up as a quad.
Boy if Harold Iggy only knew what you have just done to the classic pipeline beaknose pintail he made for me he’d have a heart attack…
But in all honesty that one looks pretty for something shaped under your house hunched over in the dark.
I don’t think 6’x18" is going to float a 49 yr old 160lbr though…
Hard to believe that foam is over 30 years old…
Good job Sharkbait/Spoon Meat!
Hahahahaha…
I might be a coconut, but I ain’t no spoon meat!
you can tell they’re brothers!!!
Aloha Harry:
It was great seeing you at Fiberglass Hawaii the other day. That looks like a neat project. I am really thinking about donating you and your brother some of funky blanks Manoa and I are getting. Manoa is getting really innovative and we are experimenting with different types of foam.
Hi Dennis,
I told Bernie about running into you and the blanks you mentioned.
Thanks, Harry
aloha,
just got off the phone with Bernie. call if you want to try these blanks. No worries/troubles about the wiliwili tree. your kindness is the heart and soul of hawaiians.
oh yah! I would have loved to buy the original board off you, and give you a fresh blank.
Iggy’s design…I love.
Thanks Manoa,
I’m sure things will be OK. My game plan has been that Casey should get first choice, but I’m hoping that we all can share some of this wonderful tree.
Tom told me that the yield is not always very good because you don’t know what’s there until you cut it into planks.
What Bernie and I want to do doesn’t require big thick pieces. We’re thinking of veneer thickness for compsands, so it could be narrow strips, it would be cool if we had pieces long enough to cover the length of the boards we make 7’ - 8’.
Thanks for the offer for the blanks. Bernie may be interested in it. PU sure is easier to shape.
Aloha, Harry
Nice shape,
I love the rail shot.
If this was my board I would add a 1"-2" balsa or foam stringer down the middle.
Lob style.
Just a thought.
Ian
Adding extra width was a thought my brother had. We had a choice of going with balsa rails and making it a compsand, or adding something down the middle.
I actually want to see how a really narrow board will work. I’ve been riding 20" to 21" wide boards for a while, so it’s going to be interesting to see how less width will affect the performance. I’m hoping it makes the board more responsive.
I already have a great fish from Greg Griffin, so this is experimentation. I hope I’m heading in the right direction.
I still liked it in it’s previous incarnation although it aged quite a bit since the 70’s
But that happens to anything neglected for 30+ years
At least it’ll be rejuvenated and ridden again
Kodak Brownie(Circa 1973) shot of when it was a youngster (one on the far left)
BTW the second one from the left was another awesome Iggy (The Surfboard Shaping Company)
Single wing swallow with a wood fin good memories here
As a Singl Keel/Pin (sorry about the out of focus headache)
Just before it had the recent face lift
ah ha!! A no nose!
Let us know how it rides.
It will be a couple of weeks before this one is finished. It’s ready to glass, but we’re both a little bussup from working on saving an extremely rare tree from ending up in a landfill. My arms are sore and I don’t think my back will hadle stading a bending too much today. Glad it’s windy and rainy, or else I’d be tempted to go surfing and come home a wreck.
Hopefully later this year we’re going to have totally mind blowing experiments with wood boards.
I will post photos of the finished board and give my opinion on whether I made another “wall hanger” board or a rideable spearfish. Who knows, this may change everything we thought about the width a fish should be.
Now I’m guessing from the above posts the board is going to have some sort of fish tail with the quad set up? Real narrow, quad and how long? It sounds like a cool project and I’ve been seeing a few very pulled in narrow fish around lately so I’m interested in how it turns out.
good on ya harry and bernie !
…I was WONDERING what you had been up to lately !
cheers
ben
i too eagerly await hearing how it goes …what height and weight are you , if you don’t mind me asking , and how thick is that board ?
I finally finished the board. I did a miserable job of glassing it. Started out with a solid blue epoxy lam, but things went bad. I ended up painting the bottom dark blue and added a white stripe on the top.
My brother is lending me a set of MR fins to see how the board works. I still need to add a leash plug incase it doesn’t work. I’m getting too old to be swimming after my board.
looks nice- how wide did it end up?
I did a cutdown narrow fish a few years back, ended up using it as a kneeboard. Mine had keels though. Just loaned it (and some swimfins) out to a friend who is having some shoulder pain and was looking for something he could do w/out paddling…
I didn’t bother to get the dims, but I’ll do that tonight or sometime this week. I know that it’s narrow, probably about 18" wide, and just under 6’ long.
My brother has a no nose fish he had custom made by Jeff Bushman about 10 years ago. That board was a lot of fun, but it was wider. I’m hoping this one works good enough to have fun with.
I plan to try a bunch of different fins, to see which one works best.
