Single Fin Woody

General Discussion
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From my own fish with a large Solid Balsa stringer remained enough to shape another board.

I wanted the board to go to a good person: good surfer, good friend who may know how lucky he would be.

Well, I have that friend.

He wanted a little single fin board: 5’10" x 19" x 2"3/8.

Perfect program for that piece of wood.

I bought a blank with no stringer, cut in the middle from surfoam, the french foam maker.

So far, the board is done 95%, I just have a few more minutes to work on the nose, tail and rails.

Stringer.

Stringer AND foam.

Stringer, foam AND glueing.

On the stand.

The outline before shaping.

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lob,

Nice looking board. Congrats!

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looks lovely lob. good to see you made the most of that beautiful piece of balsa.

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nice!

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bitchin.

…ambrose…

I’ve gotten in over my head

with that much excess stcking out after glue up

when I get anxious to hog

it down aand not put

all that yummy wood on the floor

I use a saw

then I risk nicking the foam and often do

trimming it down

to rocker profile

at least the bottom prior to glue is a bitchin deal

that closing o’ the tollerance makes for a clean job. and accurate matching of the glue up side o side

aavoiding too thin shape after truing up.

my major concern is tailoring

my technique to accomodate

my restless and impulsive executons

with dull saws and a big rush to completion

that coupled with an active imagination

as to how to use big scraps

makes for a special madness.

as to this board ya got here ,

Bitchin,

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Howzit Brose, Seems to me the easiest way would be after the blank is cut in half you could just lay the foam on edge on the wood and outline it and then use a band saw to cut it to close tolerance.Aloha,Kokua

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Umm, gonna chamber the stringer? Looks like a lot of wood, may be a little heavier than your customer wants, certainly strong, though. Not that stringers are the be-all and end-all of board strength. Apparently you don’t much believe in flex (neither do I).

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Quote:

1 - Umm, gonna chamber the stringer?

2 - may be a little heavier than your customer wants, certainly strong, though.

3 - Apparently you don’t much believe in flex (neither do I).

Well…

1 - Solid balsa, not chambered.

2 - I have my own fish made that same way. Moer weight means more momentum as well. It can be a good thing for certain boards. Certainely not for a performance shortboard. But for a mellow little single, I don’t feel afraid. The “customer” is rather a friend in fact. I didnot want to let such a balsa piece go to a complete stranger.

He knows my fish and the weight of it.

I guess anyway that when you order such a board, weight comes second.

3 - The flex issue… well, on my fish, I cant figure there is a lack of flex. In fact there isn’t any but the board is still really fun and lively.

The balsa stringer will give more than just no-flex / more weight.

Something to do with the spirit of that project and the gift i can provide a friend :wink:

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1.weight is hot in offshorres

  1. singles glide ,unlike the multi fin toe-ed inners

  2. balsa flexes! less than a glass spoon or a 1/4’’ foam tail

but the flex spring back memoryin balsa … is no shabby element

4.thin balsa is less likely to break than thin foam

5.hollow balsa stringers make more problems than weigh reduction solves

7.weight weight weight reduction

has been a fixation for quite some time

the problems it solved created a whole set of new problems

that contemporary fetishes choose to overlook

primary of these is being able to manuver

a given shape w/out learning where the sweet spot happens to be

and sometimes never learn .ahhh the eternalized poor technique.

…ambrose…

  • lets just not talk about 6.
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good job lob.

…ambrose…

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The shape is over.

Just a few very little things to fine tune here and there.

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oh that looks sweet mate. clean lines. awesome.

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Bonjour Mister Lob!

Unfortunatly your pictures in the above post seem to have disappeared, I did however find some on your website, is the board in question on your page : http://www.barrelsurfboards.com/encours.php ??

As usual, your “projets en cours” is a delight to see!

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5.hollow balsa stringers make more problems than weigh reduction solves

…ambrose…

  • lets just not talk about 6.

Hey LOB very nice is that stringer 2" wide or more?? I see you have a bit of a wood fetish like me…I like the egg shape very clean very curvey very sexxy

Q’s for ambrose what problems dose a hollow stringer create?? (no. five). I have a bit of left over kiri that i was going to try and do hollow chambered no glass egg out of.

cheers

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Surfer Dave => not yet in the “en cours” section. Soon to come. And more nice projects to come: twinzers, quad fishes, quad shortboard, bonzer5…

The Photo section has improved also :wink:

Kiricore => Stringer is 7.1cm (2"3/4+). Hopefully I’ll be able to grab more wood soon. :slight_smile:

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soooooooooooooo… friggin’…hot…

daddy likes.

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Sweet site but my french aint up to scratch(any english version?)

Where In France are you? Thinking of taking a trip down this time next year and would be nice to be picking up a board along the way.

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i started working on an english spoken version.

I have 3 pages done so far… not much hey ? :wink:

I’m close to Bordeaux

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…Lob,

whats glue did you used?

thanx

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Very nice,

It looks fantastic, good job.