Something new for me…made plenty of fins, but never a handplane. Basswood, redwood, walnut, and mahogany. Mostly leftovers from other projects or offcuts that wouldn’t work for boards. Might have to make one for myself one of these days!
Beautiful design and wood selection .!!!
Built to ride…
6’9"…
7’2" x 22" x 2 3/4" Redwood over XPS.
Paul - Tell me you just did the annual workshop tidy-up please…I’m ashamed.
The Chalice - 6’6 x 19 double wing six channel, pawlunia/balsa/divynicell combo.
JD
How did you get the channels into the wood?
Just veneer with vac onto the divinycell-core?
Or are the channels made of massive wood?
Work in progress. Paulownia and visorwood. Pretty stoked on this one, too bad it’s not mine to keep…
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Very nice work Haavard!
Kind regards,
surfding
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Lovely bookmatched Paulownia Havaard.
I have a new batch from Geoff Moase, who posts here as “Dovetail”. I did’nt request bookmatched planks, so I lucked out with this pair …Visorwood sounds interesting too.
Speednedle This is very cool what you have done here. Nice work. Very nice.
Quanta,
More pics, please.
