These are my two latest progects.
The simmons i got a blank machined and I’ve been glassing, it just needs sanding.
The rabbits foot is my first ever shaped from scratch board. Starting with something easy, NOT.
Let me know what you think.
Ask any questions if you like.
Looks good! Cool that you tried something different.
Dave
rabbi foot rocks.
Cool work, definitely want to hear a ride report.
For the rabbits foot, is that setup for a goofy or regular? Always curious how the asyms are supposed to be setup.
Jason
Long rail into the wave typically, but I put the channel on the short rail to give a little more hold so it may be able to go left. I’m a goofy so I want lots of grab on the inner rail going right…
I want to go in the noosa festival of surfing finless division next March.
Totally bitchen you built your own board specifically to surf in a local contest. Mike
…for a first timer sure you have a good wshop; far better than mine that have been building boards for around 30 years…
what s a rabbit foot?
The rabbits foot looks sick!
its not my work shop. an awesome bloke down the road from work has let me use his i gave him one of my custome downhill longboards as a barter…
here are a few clips of rabbits foot.
If you look at the shaddow down the long chanell side you can see a ripple in it, its not the rail its the actuall floor of the channel. I attacked it yesterday with a long rectangualar sanding block, and then smoothed it out after and i had to smooth the transition between the chine and the short channel rail.
Just to make a smooth transition beween it and that rail channel.
Thanks heaps for the nice comments.
BTW the Noosa festival is heald on a long right point, so i will be trying to surf this thing back hand so the long channel has the deepest part around where the front foot would be and the rounded outer edge on all the rails are supposed create lots of hold…
Anyway its all theory ive picked up from picking shapers brains, and i just tried to make it happen.
Calling it done
Ready to glass, this one tries to shoe the entry concave.
and the next one just shows it off.
Who’s going to glass that ? 
me, and matt from the factory, as i said i started with an easy one;), you should see his finless “bottle opener 2.0” tail.
check his stuff out on instagram.
@thefactorysurfboards
Yes this would typically be set up for a regular footer to goe right.
I will see how it goes on my backhand. If not ill donate it to a charity auction or something.
if anyone has any suggestions on a finless board for backhand surfing of right hand points feel free to make or provide direction…
cheers
Man, I just love everything about this- dunno if it’s an “alternative craft” heat or what, but I hope it’s just your basic HPSB folks taking the generic sewing machine line… and you, on that thing. Backside.
As far as I’m concerned, you’ve already won.
Got any artwork planned?
Thanks a bunch mr Hawg.
from what I’ve seen in the past, most ov the competators in the finless are on Alaias, Seaglass boards, although last year braden weir surfed this thing that was just a slab of timber as the outline and concaves in the bottom of it.
Art work.
i saw this youtube clip a while back where these guys hung a bottle this a drilled out hole in the lid and the bottom cut out on a string filled it with what i can only guess was watered down paint then let it swing over the balnk in ever decreasing arcs. they did it off center and it ended up looking like a tube from the inside.
i want to try that, but im not sure what kind of paint i should use.
im worried that the paint will react with the glass in a bad way…
WHats HPSB, is that high performance short board.
Its specifically a finless division.
Well, my lone-freak fantasy is somewhat deflated. Still- awesome, a “mind machine”!
I’ll bet some people here can help you realize your painting idea, which sounds really cool.
HPSB, yes, that’s the acronym. Good example of a meaningless term that nevertheless, means something.
