recycled wood paipo project

General Discussion
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Hello all!

after quite some time of lurking on this forum i finally found the courage to post some of my own creations :smiley:

i got really inspired by the alaia and paipo threads. I’ve have been making plywood paipo’s and alaia’s for some time now, cause i really like the simplicity of these boards and the fact that they go back to the very roots of surfing.

I make them out of scrap plywood that get’s thrown away at the lumberyard (very flexible 3/8 inch plywood), and finish them with linseed-oil bases varnish for environmental reasosn.

Here are my latest projects:

The disc-paipo (about 30 inch in diameter):

The dont worry be happy shark paipo (length about 4 foot):

And the Rocket Shark paipo (length also about 4 foot):

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yew! simple surfboards for happy surfing. good on you mate.

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WOUHIIIIYAAAAA

COOL BOARDS,

I will help you with the ride report PHOTOOOOOS

Hey Chipper, could you get us some wooden fins,

Wood screw system would be fine.

I just love these boards,

Make a statement in the lineup.

Souly

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thanks all! Hopefully i can test a few of them soon and get some pictures. I’ll keep you posted!

Eef

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some more project pictures:

this one is made from 1/4 inch plywood so it has LOADS of flex. The painting is done with oil-based paint and after twee weeks still sticky :smiley: patience patience patience…

The Fish is made from a 5/8 inch piece of wood i found while cycling home from the beach. Same paint, still waiting for it to dry :smiley:

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great to see more recyucling here at sways !

q?:

can you stand up surf them , smally ?

soul’n…

"Wood screw system would be fine. "

do you mean fcs plugs , mate ?

i think the boards may be a smidgeon [aussie measurement" too thin / woody? to put plugs in ??

or would we just put screws through the deck into the base of a [thick foiled] fin , i wonder ?

…how did you do it with the fish , smally …are they glassons ?

cheers

ben

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Great to hear from you Chip!

is surf them on my belly (with swimfins) but i’m sure some of the stand-up surfers have no problem surfing them standing up. Getting into the waves will be the hard part due to the lack of float…

The fins are glue-ons :smiley:

oh and Chip: you NEED to get a computer because i really miss your happy experiments and photo threads.

greetings,

Eef

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Fantastic! I love them, your artwork is brill.

Like you say back to the roots.

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This is the latest one:

i added it to the resources as well

http://www.swaylocks.com/resources/detail_page.cgi?ID=2107

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Send your turtle over here, it’s bloody freezing.

Nice one.

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I started on some biiiiig summer-paipo’s today: The Big Fella and the Big Momma. They mesure 4 ft x 2.6 ft x 0.4 inch and are made from scrap plywood.

I cut out handgrips in them, otherwise you can’t carry them under your arm.

We have pretty slow and small waves here in summer, so i figured i needed big boards :smiley: (and probably big leg-muscles, still working on that one)

Hopefully they can give the longboarders a run for their money :smiley:

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I finished the last layers of varnish for these boards the other day. Not tested yet!

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these alaias and paipos are cool but i dont understand how they are surfable? like i know the polynesians and hawaiians rode planks and used their feet to steer but how are these similar? please explain this to me b/c i’m interested in these and confused… thanks

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Hello Novasurfer,

paipo’s are a bit like what bodyboards are now: they can be turned kind of the same way that bodyboards are.

Alaia’s are a bit different: they are long thin and narrow and trim very well in the pocket. There is a very nice video on youtube made by Nathan Oldfield (Oldy on this forum) that has some alaia riding in it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7T1Io7_Cwk

on Tom Wegeners website there is also loads of info on alaias: http://www.tomwegenersurfboards.com

hope this helps a bit!

This afternoon i’m going to surf my turtleface alaia for the first time. Can’t wait!

greetings,

Eef

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oh alright thanks for the info man. it makes a lot more sense now… do you glass them the same way and all??

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i don’t glass them, but finish them with nature-friendly (linseed-oil based) varnish instead. Maybe i’m going to try to oil the next one and see how that turns out.

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I had some wood left from an alaia i made, so i made a handboard out of it. i’m sealing it with linsead-oil and that is a first time for me!

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good lord!

the ancient hawaiians will be turning in there graves…

bring on the future…

i really love the art work. especially the bear one…

great work…

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I couldn’t resist. Sometimes you just got to… :smiley:

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Finished my wooden handboard the other day. I sealed the wood with a few layers of linseed oil, which seems to work wel. I put a small video of the board on my website. You can check it out here:

http://www.monsterboards.org