I hotwired a blank out of 2# EPS foam and glued in a balsa stringer. Shaped myself a new board 8’ x 23” x 3”. I got busy with other things and never glassed the board. Dave at work has been asking me to build him a hollow wood surfboard. I’m not really set up for that and would have to buy quite a few new tools to make a wooden board. One day Resinhead contacts me. He’s got a good deal on some beech wood veneer. So I get the veneer and some warp cloth and I’m ready to make a faux wood board. I invited Dave over to the house ,showed him the shaped blank and the wood. I explained the building process and let him pick out a tail block. We made a deal and I set out to build a wood surfboard. Next I drove up to Surf4fins house. In typical So Cal style it took me 1 ½ hours to drive 40 miles. Surf4fins helped me vacuum bag the veneer onto the shaped blank and I helped him glass a surfboard. When I got the board back to my place I noticed some small spots that did not glue down good. I grabbed the super glue but decided to do a test on some scrap foam first... Bad idea…Super glue melts EPS foam... Once the wood was cleaned up I air brushed the rails. The color is Burnt Sienna. Look close and you will see a shadow pin line where I masked off the wood. The deck and bottom are hand laminated with 6 oz warp cloth and Resin Research CE resin. The overlap gives me 12 oz of cloth on the rails. Tail block is real Redwood. Fin boxes and center fin are from Probox/FibreGlas Fin Co. I made the side fins out of old glass on fins. She looks a little over finned right now but we can make adjustments after some test rides. That black pin line on the deck is air brushed onto the hot coat. That gave me lots of problems when gloss coating. I knew the pinline was going to be a big hassle but it was worth the extra sanding and patch work to get it right.
Enjoy your new surfboard Dave!
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