hey guys, I know that there are many photos of all of your hollow wooden boards in the archives in various posts but I thought it might be nice to have them all on one post for all to see and admire, not only finished product pics but also any interesting pics taken during the making, I look forward to browsing them while drooling on the keyboard!
cheers
Robbo.
I thought it might be nice to have them all on one post for all to see and admire … also any interesting pics taken during the making, I look forward to browsing them while drooling on the keyboard!
cheers
Robbo.
not sure how this one would ride , but here ya go Robbo …
A hollow foot board…
It’s hard to be the one who posts right after Paul,
as his boards are truly gorgeous …
Here’s mine, it’s a 9’10" longboard gun. Rails are
50/50 pinched and down and hard towards
the tail. Lots of roll on the deck and lots of belly
on the bottom. Structure is made out of Okoume
plywood, strip planking is high density balsa.
Agghh great! Now I’ve got to follow Paul Jensen’s boards and that beautiful hollow balsa.
Mine are a 7’4" hollow botched job (1st board, big learning experience), a 7’ swallow tail hollow oak and the framework for the 6’6" swallow tail I’m building at present.
Jase (MMM)
Ah ha, no pictures, I’ll try again
7’4" botch
7’ swallow tailed hollow oak
6’6" swallow tail framework (note the over entheusiastic weight reduction on the 2nd tail rib)
FBLA, thanks for that “skeleton” shot. I want to comment that you seem to have removed most of the deck support from the ribs… IMHO, they need vertical “posts” to support the deck in compression, rather than the beam style support they will give the way you reduced them. But, whatever works! What is the deck wood and glass schedule?
Hey Charlie,
I know what you’re saying with the ribs (especially the one I slipped on), I figure it should be sufficient though as my son (who the board is for) is skinny as ****. My aim with this board was to keep the weight as low as possible so the internal rails are just a single layer of very light ply, rather than the usual two layers laminated together around a form then cut. So far the frame is less than half the weight of my last one at the same stage, 1.5 lb so far but I am planning on some CF to stiffen it all up a bit.
I’m still looking for the right wood for the skins, I did see some rather pretty, very thin and light birch faced ply but the grain was running the wrong way so I’ll have to keep looking. I was hoping to find some maple faced ply to contrast with some sapele I have left over from my last board. I figure it’s gonna be at least another month before I get to glass this one (Away for a fortnight soon). As usual it will be glassed with poly but I think I will try a single layer of 6 ounce deck and bottom as Dan is so light, we rarely get much to go wild on anyway.
Have you gone the wood route also? Are there any posts of your boards?
Cheers
Jase (MMM)
what the ??? chipfish!!! Too many resin fumes for you lately huh?!
some poor bugger is walking around out there with a small wooden board as a prosthetic leg!
by the way PAUL, thanks for posting ALL your masterpieces at the START of this post!!! your a hard act to follow!!!
nice work by all so far though, look forward to seeing many more
…thought you’d enjoy that Rob !
…in the absence of Hicksy posting shots of his [real hollow wooden surfboard ] , thought I’d inject a bit of Roy and H.G. type relief in there !
[puts a different spin on the term ‘bodysurfing’ , don’t it ?]
And the only pictures in existance of one being ridden…
speaking of wooden hollows, and of special local interest to chipfish and hicksy…I just had dinner with Joe Larkin, my cousin is married to his daughter and Joe is in the states after attending the opening of an exhibit at the museum of design in London where several of his board were featured…I saw a recent replica he shaped of one of his “Okanohue” hollow boards that he was shaping in the late 50’s, using a wooden frame and marine plywood due to the unavailability of balsa in Austalia at that time…a solid wood replica of one of the first boards Duke Kahanamoku took to australia on his first trip and left there…and a modern classic version of one of his 1966 mals, sweet volan cloth, nice wood stringer and nose / tailblock work, very refined pinched 50/50 rails ( I need to work on getting one of these…compares favorably to recent classics from Tudor, Cooperfish, Tyler, etc)…for more info see Pacific Longboarder Vol. 7 # 1…got pics, chip?
Hey Jase,
Better take some off the other side otherwise she’ll lean to the left…
OK tell me what the deal is with the nose, cut it a bit short or a new innovation in design?
Hey Hix
the thing going on there is, not as it might look (a mistake) but a piece of cherry either side of the stringer at the front so that there is a bit of extra material to screw my vent into after it’s skinned. There is going to be some bits of foam added at the back so that I can install some fin plugs aswell.
The photos of you with the hollow look like youre having a blast.
wow dubstar !
did you pick his brains ?
that guy is a legend …gave M.P. a chance to shape "back in the day " !!
I have a very good article on Joe in one of the longboard mags …I think it IS Pacific Longboarder , or Australian Longboarding , come to think of it …it shows the stubbie M.P. type M.O.T.E. board , among other classic wood boards .
How often do you get to see Joe ?
ben
some awesome boards there guys, very inspiring stuff!
there must be more of you out there though, come on show off your hard work!
is that a “smith” ? that would sure give you a leg up on the other guys.
throw in an arm and thats how much our petrol is costing these days…
gotta run … i mean… uh thanks for that chip
Here is mine, now is more than 1 year old…polyester made, no delamination problems yet. Took about 4 months to complete, following Jensen’s directions religiously. Now planning a 6’8’’ tony staples egg… due to my lack of time, maybe in 6 months I’ll post some pics of the frame.
Jack
wow … that first board looks great ! but doesn’t the second one take on a lot of water ?
