Share your best or worst f**k ups

General Discussion
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Wanted to share this with everyone, we share rhe highs, how about sharing the lows!!!

Just putting the finishing touches to what I think is my nicest board to date, already done the leash plug, flip board, rout out the lokbox slot and oh sh*t ploughed through the leash plug up to the bar!!!

Great, oh well stuff happens, can’t move the box position, so decide to fit boxes, then move leash plug to offcentre location.

Position jig, a seconds distraction and oh sh*t No2, routed the wrong hole in the jig!!!(pic No2)

Good job its a compsand, repair was easy and luckily the unwanted hole is under the deck pad!

Lessons learned from this:

Measure tail thickness properly before deciding on leash plug location.

Label any jigs clearly

DONT ANSWER THE PHONE IN THE MIDDLE OF ANY IMPORTANT OPERATIONS!!!

Anyone else like to share their f**k ups?

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Wow 3 holes? were there any drugs involved?

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most of my bad ones involve knocking finished blanks off the stands. Put a 1.5 inch deep gouge into the deck of a tandem board… knocked one swallowtail off a fish… fun stuff like that.

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Howzit mark, A suggestion, always do the fins systems routing or drilling before doing the leash plug. The fin placement is way more important than the leash plug placement. I'd say the worst lows in my shop have been paint bleeding when laminating a board. Aloha,Kokua
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when you miss placement of a hole

think ,maybe somthing else could be installed in em?

maybe radio recievers?

storage compartments for international travel?

empty containers with ball bearings for rattling noises,

highly entertaining for the custom board order from a friend!

…ambrose…

there are no f**ups

only new oppertunities for the mischievious mind.

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Howzit Brother Brose, Crossing over to another thread, car key holder.Aloha,Kokua

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empty containers with ball bearings foe rattling noises…

its all bearings these days!

there are no f**ups…

only new oppertunities for the mischievious mind.

yup, include me in that camp…any f’up can be turned into a feature…

otoh, im sure someone has a good fire story to share…

hope no one got hurt

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“it was 20 years ago today …” lalala

from …

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[of course, some can be TOO short, and have too many fins…

a failed strip and reshape job from pre-swaylocks, pre-‘shaping101’, pre- having any sort of clue, and pre-teatotaller days !

It WAS a 1983 c 5’9 " hot brewz thruster with a back finbox which had badly delammed and my mate gave it to me…I’d do it DIFFERENTLY these days, that’s for sure! ]

ben

"there are no f**ups

only new oppertunities for the mischievious mind. "

[ambrose m.curry III ]

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well, for some reason the shot won’t show …

it’s the tiny little orange [p.o.s.] board I’m standing next to …on the first page of this “stubbie photo” thread …

http://www.swaylocks.com/forum/gforum.cgi?post=177640;search_string=stubbie%20photo%20thread;#177640

ben

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No, but maybe there should have been!!!

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Hi Kokua

You are definately right with the fin boxes vs leash plug install, thats the way for me from now on, with these compsands, it all needs planning from the off, with the placement of high density foam inserts for boxes and plugs. I had the key holder idea, maybe lam a film canister in one of the holes!

Ambrose’s suggestion of the ball bearings would drive you nuts though!!!

Maybe next time eh?

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Howzit mark, Years ago a friend of mine used to paddle the Napali coast to find rare shells. He had a huge blank skimmed and glassed then installed round PVC containers with screw on lids with rubber o-rings. These containers held his shells and other neccessatives dry and safe.Aloha,Kokua

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i was painting my rail bands and when i flipped the board over it hit the garage door which was up and put a huge dent in the unglassed shape i was like shit. but swaylocks helped me fix it . also another funny one was when i used a heat gun to turn a garbage bag into a air mat. well it worked but the chambers fell apart on me and it was like riding an incoherent bubble. interesting till my little cousins popped it , @$$holes.

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Yeah fuck ups!

Tell you how I learned What NOT to do with my first swaylocks inspired board, which I never posted about…

After years working on “Normal” boards, the Sways seemed so avant-garde, and I was SO into it!!!

It was one of those ones with the two flat EPS sheets glued into a rocker…

In the full backyarder spirit I chose to glue the sheets with builders adhesive. Fine, pressed the rocker with an existing board and sandbags, glassed in ugly ol’ brown boat glue epoxy. Lovely, nice shape, fully frothing over how rad it might ride.

Then I sanded it…

The heat from sanding caused the builders glue between the two sandwiched layers to become soft again, and they came apart!!!

So I had this ballooning bottom with a stringer pulling a McDonalds golden arches reverse double concave!

That I ever tried another EPS Epoxy after that is one of lifes eternal mysteries.

But then, I have’nt told you about my second Poly glass job as a 13 year old grom…

Nobody had told me about not glassing in the sunshine, so, imagine this:-

A stoked kid with a painstakingly shaped and sprayed board, on stands in the backyard on a blazing hot day. Resin in Icecream tub, catalyst in…

And, literally as it poured onto the board it gelled…

A big jelly blob of goop and no hope of salvation.

I furiously chopped that one up into pieces!

Ever since, glassing has been a Heart- in - throat affair for me, even with numerous boards under my belt.

Speedneedle

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always encouraging to hear professionals stuff up to …they are also just human , after all eh ? Thanks for that Josh !

"But then, I have’nt told you about my second Poly glass job as a 13 year old grom…

Nobody had told me about not glassing in the sunshine, so, imagine this:-

A stoked kid with a painstakingly shaped and sprayed board, on stands in the backyard on a blazing hot day. "

mate , no wonder your sprays are good …you’ve been at it a long time eh ?!

[wish you had a shot of that board BEFORE the chainsaw massacre …woulda been fun to see a 13yo’s spray …can you remember what it was, mate ?]

cheers !

ben

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Lucky for me i haven’t had too many surfing fuckups.

It must be a rule for all joshs to spray a board when 13. heres my first spray from last year.

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Heeey

I found the Pic!!!

That debacle glass job must have been board number 3…

The pic is 21 years ago!!!

See the unglassed board on the left:- Thats the one, shortly before that fateful sunny day. I remember the design I had in mind was a very 80’s gradating stripes thingy which I stuffed up horribly and thus just went for that fade/ aerosol slashes.

I’m glad you are enthused that the "Pro’s " can stuff up…

Oddly, the earlier two worked out fine…

Squint hard at the middle board and you can make out the U.S Air force badge, Inspired by Midnight Oil, I think…

And, young Josh…

UNREAL SON GO BOY!!!

Young Josh, I hereby and henceforth knight you Sir Young Josh…

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"Thats the one, shortly before that fateful sunny day. "

…the good thing about living in vicco [besides the waves…“shhhh chip”] …

you can remember the sunny days , even from 20 + years ago .

thanks for that pic , Josh senior !

…young josh d [model 2… ie :“josh” , here at sways!] can draw inspiration from that shot too, eh ?

ben

[attachment] if one of THESE bit you , that could be one of your worst f***ups too, eh ?

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Thanks for that one Josh, I can picture your face as the board started coming apart in front of you, glad you didn’t give up there and then eh!!! Mistakes are what make us human, and also kind of shorten the learning curve too.

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well ive got so many i dont know where to start .

this is probably my most extreme version of (it wasnt supposed to come out that shape story )…

was about 15 years back , while still learning the art of bagging and what a difference pressure made …

had a hotwired blank and its deck off cut to act as a bed …

was putting a skin on the bottom of the board and had the offcut from the deck ,in the bag with it to support it and make sure it kept its shape …

had the vacuum pressure cranked up and went home for the night …

came in the next morning and just about had a heart attack …

there on the bench was the worlds biggest burger ring …

because the vacuum pressure was so strong it colapsed the foam , but at the same time it pulled in on itself from nose to tail as well , so the whole job had curled up so the nose was touching the tail to form a giant ring , so there was a 9’ longboard that was now a 3’ diameter wooden wheel …

of coarse it had set in that posistion as the resin dried , so i wrestled it out of the bag and played with it in the carpark with the other factory crew , we laughed as we rolled it around , kicking it back and forth , one of the groms even tried to climb in and ride it till it folded …

thats one of many …

regards

BERT