Pura Vida No Pro - Custom Surfboard

www.puravidanopro.com

Check out this website - a pretty cool outreach to the youth in Costa Rica through surfing. There was a local fundraiser here in South Carolina and I donated a custom shape to be raffled off. The winner wanted a 60’s style log - triple stringer. I ordered up a 9’8Y ‘regular’ foam density with cedar stringers (pretty and smells good in the shaping room!) from US blanks. I was pretty stoked be be able to get Clark service in a post Clark world - custom stringers, densities, rocker and the foam is just like Clark. Blanks were a little pricey but service (through Atlantic Surfoam in Melbourne Fl) was top notch! I am going to give a little photo journal of this one so keep posted.

Richard

www.grasshoppersurf.com

Outline. 9’6" 16"Tail 23" Widepoint @ center 19" Nose

Little man gettin’ dirty!

Next generation surfboard builder!

Did some more shaping on this bad boy. All done except for some touch ups and the finish screening.

This is the first triple stringer I have shaped - its was kind of a pain to shape but it looks really nice. Wish I was better at sharpening my block planes!

I use a new microplane sureform on this one - that works really well on the stringers, especially at the rail. Does not cut the foam as aggressively as a regular sureform though. I left the regular blade on my short sureform (to cut down and dig out areas quickly) and the microplane on the longer sureform to smooth things out.

I have some 8oz Volan that I will be glassing this one with! I will update again when I start glassing.

Richard, this is my second attempt to reply, You’ve aged so well!.. danny

The board looks great! T$'s crew has to stoked to say the least!

pbm-mako

lookin good there Grasshopper !!!

Here is an update - did some glassing this weekend.

8oz Volan bottom and 6oz regular/8oz Volan deck cut laps boyeee!

note to self - dont leave lam to cure overnight then cut lap in the morning when using 8oz -

Deck being glassed …

Cutlap from the deck glass…

sweet coat over the lap and hot coat!

thats all for now - next is fin box install and sand - then gloss and polish em up

maybe this will be ready for the ultimate Christmas gift…

That looks great!

Very nice!

Totally Awesome. One of THE best I’ve seen on

Sways. Ultimate craftissimo. Sweet coat? Is that

the lam res. over the pinline to prevent sand-

through trick that I use? Just never heard the

term before.

And again, beauty eh.

Thanx fer yer time…

update - here are some pics of the fin box install - its sanded and glossed so all that is left is to shine her up!

routing…

build a little dam with folded over 2" tape - keeps the resin where you want it!

glossed…

ready for a shine!

Hey Richard…

Beautiful board! Something about that nice clean shape with the clear glass job is just perfect.

Man that is one sweet lookin board

Wow!

thanks for the compliments…this has been a fun one to build…

have a merry christmas!!!

hope santa brings everyone some waves!

polished her up tonight

will post some more finished pics when the proud new owner of this one picks it up.

here is a shot with some others i have been working on…

Very nice work.