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.
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.