JIM HOLIS and I were having fun at work today.
Made this Balsa Wood Board including the blank from scratch.
Jim and I took turns using Casey McCrystals Skill 100 without his knowing.
Life is good!
How do you guy’s post such large pictures?
Swaylocks has limited file sizes?
I have photoshop however no luck with photos on sways?
If you upload to http://www.imageshack.us you can automatically resize the uploaded image to suit your preferences.
Interested to see.
The board was 9’4" x 21 3/4" x 3" 50/50 rails Soild Balsawood with Cedar Stringers.
The balsa was weighted so that the outside pieces were heavier with the inside panels lighest.
I was going to chamber this one however Jim thought we would leave it natural and surf it for the glide.
After it’s glassed we will weight it. It doesn’t feel that heavey now for being solid. In the past I have
chambered them. So it will be cool to check out the trim on this baby?
We made it for fun with no order or purpose. Each week I want us to do something different.
By the end of the week it will be Project Redwood. 2,000 years old and soaking in Cabernet for over a 100 years.
Tomorrow do the final spot glue before templating. These two blanks will be chambered due to the extreme
weight of these beast. 9’6" x 23" x 3 1/4" 50/50 rails 6’3" Malibu style. No Stringers just solid with matching Redwood
Fin.
LESS IS MORE!
Thanks to Aloaf I will post our progress.
I did a 10’6" Wine tank redwood Channel Islands gun, spot glued and ready for the machine it was 110 pounds.
After an extensive chambering, it was a mere 28 pound fine sanded. To tap on it was like a guitar sound board, I had my shaping room stereo blasting Hendrix and the blank was buzzing like a 10’6" woofer speaker.
The blank was so heady with a heavy red wine scent that I had to get out of the slip stream of the band saw while cutting rockers, I couldn’t hold my breath any longer.
My old factory was next to a black liquor store in lovely downtown Cocoa, Fla., the ladies of the day, as the liquor store closed before dark, would often offer me up the various “tricks” that they had up something other than their sleeves.
The wine ravaged, puke punctuated breath from these ladies came to mind immediately when I first cut into this wood.
Making wooden boards has a different feel to it all together.
The stories behind each board? I’m glad to hear you took off that much weight
off the redwood board you made? My blanks are at least 110 pounds if not more?
If I can get a 9’6" to weight in under 25 pounds it’s going surfing!
No matter what the weight is, if it’s not surfed, it’s not a surfboard…
That board turned out really nice SD. Looking forward to seeing how the red wood board comes out.
Nice board It looks like a fun ride
Paul Jensen is correct it’s not a surfboard if it’s not surfed!
Therefore I will ride it. Jim Holis will ride it. I may even get CJ Nelson to ride.
Josh Mohr, Collin McPhillips can ride it. Then I can hang it on the wall and talk story!~
Or burn it for a bonfire?
I don’t think I’d be burning that. It looks too nice for fire wood.
Dave
I’m stoked to see what you guys do with that redwood blank…I was just thinking about
that beast the other day.
That WR cut I got from you is in the bag right now, cleaned it up, tuned the nose and
tail and put 4oz+bamboo+4oz on the deck and 2x4oz on the bottom lapped up to the
bamboo patch edge on the deck…all epoxy.
I’m calling The Middler…it’s for a particular spot up here…now I can paddle battle with
these old goats on their 4" thick Aipa pop outs!
haha
Let’s see some pics!
cleaned it up yesterday afternoon, did the deck last night.
did the bottom this morning.
fill coat, sanding, fin boxes and all done by Saturday.
not much finesse, just had a bad day out at the spot and realized I really
needed this thing in the quiver for days when the waves won’t get the
displacement hull moving and the length/volume will come in handy.
if you’re touching any bamboo, it’s not a noseride.
still have 2 more cut blanks…it’s been great practice on the finishing
process.
going to take that XPS and have the dude cut one of his PG hull templates
in to it…keep it stringerless, use epoxy and some more bamboo in the
right spots…could be goooood.
Your a real busy guy!
Jim and I made a stringerless epoxy today.
6’0" x 20.5" x 2.63" Quad Fish out of 2.5# EPS
Carbon Fiber for the rails I want to yield less than 5.0 bs
Tomorrow I will finish spot gluing the redwood blanks and begin the process.
It’s fun working with all the different materials that are out there.