Hows it everyone?
I have searched extensively and got some good ideas, and I am continuing to search, but I figured i would throw out a forum topic in case anyone wanted to drop 2 cents or so my way.
I found an old beat up longboard. Not TOO beat up. Its got open wounds etc, but was kept very dry. Most of the damage is in the front foot of the board. You see where I’m going with this. I wanna chop it into something cool. I have a few shortboards and one really good longbaord. Between a semi gun (7’) and my 9’0" I have nothing. I had an 8’0 egg that was my friends that I liked a lot, but would have preffered 7’0 or 7’6. So… What should I chop this down to?
Right away I thought mini simmons, but theres nowhere near enough volume in the tail (Dims below).and the bottom contours wrong.
An 8’0 would be ok. 7’0 would be real cool, but maybe ugly. A 6’6" Takayama scorpion copy would be awesome, but I dont know, the way this board is set up it may not even be close. The scorpions have pulled in tails, but not as pulled in as this. Its got one fin box and I dont think I want to add any more. The glassings ok in the tail… And I prefer futures, so I cant just drop fcs plugs in…
This board has a TON of nose rocker. I know theres a standard way to measure etc… but what i did was put it on the floor and measure the nose to the floor and it was at or over 5 1/2 inches. its got decent tail rocker too. If I chopped it down I would still ahve some rocker left. I could shape some in too…
The bottom seems to be a big single concave through the first 2 and half feet of board to the 7’ mark, then a pretty serious vee through the fin with a flat exit and asquare tail.
The rails are pretty damned soft and full too. Weird combo no? HP LB Rocker with soft rails and heavy vee? Im not sure if it spirals either… Theres some extra glass there that needs to be removed to see the proper concave.
Heres the dims…
from the tail
1" in 5 1/2 wide
2" in 7" wide
4" in 9 in wide
6" in 10 1/2 in wide
1 Foot x 14
2x18 1/2
3x 21
4 x 22 1/2
5 x 23 1/2
6 x 23
7 x 22 1/2
8 x 20
everything after that is irrelevant. So… I had an old jacobs 6’8 egg with heavy vee that was a blast to ride… wider round pin than this though… What can i do with this? I’m not looking to push it through big heavy barrels. I would like to be able to take it out to my favorite LB spot when its chest high and just cruise single fin style, but throw some turns too, maybe duck into tiny barells. I’m in HAwaii but this would be fr town, Lani’ other unnamed chill spots. NOT off the wall, rockpiles etc.
Any and all help is appreciated. I have a .brd file of it I can email if you have aku or boardcad and want to play with it.
MAhalo
