And I’m digging that “WOODLOVE Hand Plane Oil” on your site 
Hey garret, you got it right…she’s a weighty craft but weight in this case = momentum…all about glide…and couldn’t resist the branding for the oil…makes me smile real wide every time I rub it in…
Cheers
Rich
Www.thirdshade.com
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Me with the first every board I built (left…xps, driftwood keels) comparing it with the xps/balsa railed board I made for a friend.
The left yellow board. I’m assuming it was a yellow xps blank? Or is that a spray? Maybe a white xps blank that yellowed over time?
Regardless of the color all of the last four boards look great!
The Orange Matter from rodndtube is prolly my fav though. Although the bottom contour on that S&S Checkered RPM looks flawless/mechanical 
Thanks for the questions garrettfrye. I hope all the other readers feel free to comment and ask questions. The more of you that do comment and question the more interesting the thread. Its an honour to have rodntube post his boards. I’d suggest a google search on … austin paipo boards … for some eye opening paipo info. Enjoy!
I enjoy my boards much like everyone else does with their’s. It is usually an endless process of tweaking, experimentation and enjoyment, although I have largely settled into a shape that has only been tweaked into two basic boards – one for weaker East Coast USA surf (a little thicker and wider) and the other for punchier waves (narrower and thinner, but we are talking only a 1/4 to 1/2 in widths and thicknesses!). It has been a blessing to have a shaper such as Austin Saunders – especially since I can not shape or glass by any stretch of the imagination.
Because of airline baggage challenges, especially relating to waveriding craft, I would love to see the technology for a good paipo bisect.
They are both pink xps, board on the left has a lemon yellow tint. The other is painted in red acrylic before glassing.
My board (left) goes like a dog, probably due to the fact the fins are about an inch thick and the foil is backwards! But that is from a time when I didn’t know any better. It doesn’t really get surfed now, I just keep it as its the first one.
The red board flys though, i’m definately going to have to make myself a new paipo soon.
Not the best of pics, red boards first outing last summer.
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That’s awesome. I forgot about tinting them. I have some blue xps that I may shape into a stringer-less paipo. Was thinking about an opaque white tint. I live on the east coast and we rarely have waves capable of breaking a stringerless board. So that part should be okay. I’m interested to see how the flex feels when riding it. I’ve been reading the xps delam thread and was wondering if you’ve had any delams on either board. If not, how’d you glass them?
Do you want to define the criteria for the paipo bisect idea?
Do you want readers to come up with ideas?
Have you got anyone in mind to make a prototype?
I have to say the obvious that everyone is thinking …
Are you thinking of a “rod and tube” method? Because thats how long boards have been previously turned into travel boards.
I saw a guy on the Australian version of “The New Inventors” tv show about a year ago that had a travel surfboard . … he could be a good person for the job?
Copy pasted the following from the site.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rxc5YaKTrbM&feature=player_embedded
Pierre Costez on a Piapo Takes on a spongers approach
Modifies a board that is roughly 50x20x2 inches so that it fits into a standard airline checked bag. Airlines currently limit checked bags to 62 linear inches before all kinds of additional fees kick-in. The luggage bag would need at least to allow at least 2 inches of padding on each side to prevent dings and provide sufficient height for the board to be stacked with internal protection, wetsuit, towels, swim fins and other normal paipo surfing equipment.
The board needs to survive a wide range of surf conditions and be able to withstand unintended impacts without losing its integrity. Impacts while being used are the usual sort… a slam againt a sandbar, wipeouts in strong waves, impact with a reef.
I would love readers, designers, board builders to come up with ideas that could be translated into prototypes.
I have requested two board builders to give it some thought but have not gained positive traction as of yet.
That is the method most of us are familiar with but what I am asking for is the desinger, engineer, builder to meet a performance spec, not dictate how that is done.
Nice concept: http://www.abc.net.au/tv/newinventors/txt/s2538185.htm In looking at where the forward and aft ends join together is appeared in the video that those sections were not fiberglassed which would would lead to water absorption.
Something I made when i was despirate for a project. made it out of POS board (my 1st reshape) that was providing much neded insulatory services in the attic.
My 4yo saw this, he was like DAD…IS THAT MY SURFBOARD** 8D**
Well son…yes, yes it is.
I tried riding it, but with no fins (on my feet) it was no use.
still learning how to do posts, will try again…
I give up, just do it like this
rodndtube wrote:
Modifies a board that is roughly 50x20x2 inches so that it fits into a standard airline checked bag. Airlines currently limit checked bags to 62 linear inches before all kinds of additional fees kick-in.
malaroo questions
Does the board have to fold or pull apart? Sounds like 50x20x2 will fit as it is.
Do you know how wide the bags are? Obviously wide enough, nut are they substaially wider?
Do boogie boarders use the standard airline checked bag?
rodndtube wrote:
The board needs to survive a wide range of surf conditions and be able to withstand unintended impacts without losing its integrity.
malaroo questions
Does that rule out surfboard construction, foam, fibreglass?
Is boogie board constrtuction best? (not repairable)
rodndtube wrote:
That is the method most of us are familiar with but what I am asking for is the desinger, engineer, builder to meet a performance spec, not dictate how that is done.
malaroo questions
So the board to minimize its size and go back together, simply and safely and strongly. (hit a reef and not worry about getting speared by rods and tubes) Obviously light weight like a normal board.
Surfoils, have you got any ideas? Anyone else?
Heres some malaroo thoughts
Methods on minimizing
1 fold
options of fold
1a) hinges (screws parts … yuk)
1b) a substance that folds (¿???)
1c) ?
2 parts that go together
2a) a rigid full length bottom, top parts clip on?
(2a1/might as well be a board if its full length, 2a2/at least its thinner in a bag, 2a3/top bits will come off in big surf)
3 cut in half length ways
3a) rigid wall across middle, screw on angle like FCS fins that hold it together
(3a1/wont line up on correct angle, regarless of how good screw and wall system)
(3a2/needs an overlapping section, on the bottom[for safety] for alingment direction, makes it heavy and fiddly)
4 back to the drawing board!
How do you do that greyed out malaroo wrote: stuff?
You know the kids going to rip on that … and you wont get it back!
Like the duck dive … should I say Dolphin dive, go along the bottom regardlees of whats happening up top, You could probably catch the waves from uder the lineup, first breathe in the tube … Different!
Thats a very fast looking weapon you’ve got there …
I've just posted five photos of a bi-sect style paipo on the paipo site. The board is based on one of John Galera's & Jason Oliver's desrves the credit for the bi-sect design:
Bob
Malaroo, this is what Im working on, a craft made of a minimal frame and a stretched hull skin.
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Its not finished but with a flexible hull it only needs a frame to complete the design and that frame could be collapsable.
Surfoils
We all watch in anticipation. Its like we’ve swithched to the SciFi channel!