With the Chinese year of the Pig dawning, it’s an ideal time for wave hogs to get into PIg boards, so here’s mine, the POWER PIG:
After admiring the classic pig longboards, I remembered another pig longboard species seen only rarely. . . the overblown lazor zap !. . my friend Marcus had such a machine in Raglan, and it was a blast. The design has a shortboard rocker ( flat tail rocker with plenty of nose lift) and a widepoint back planshape . . . not something I would usually do (separating the rocker apex from the widepoint) but I calculate that it’s going to be good . . . . good for a starfin, tunnel setup or single. . . .
Shown below is the deck, which is laminated from 2 layers of 3mm Paulownia ( The brown stain sands off later leaving brown pinlines at the plank joins) shorter planks mean that a diagonal deck is the go:
The resident surf video photographer and Dragon Lady demands a crescent tail for functional reasons, the half planshape shows a squaretail. . … we are negotiating !
Hicksy that nose is still going to pack a fair weight, but you are right, it will be somewhat less. . . there’s still going to be a pendulum swing to the nose, but I like that. . . no hurry to turn, let the board do the work . . .
Thickness is 2.5 inches
Right now I just have the deck panel glued up flat, am planning to do one panel per day.
Paul Jensen’s masking taped joint method is proving to be really perfect for laminating these thin slats
Awesome start!!! I just love the look of those wide hips back with a narrow nose. Heres a pic of an ole Greg Noll board that has a really cool pigish outline. What are your rocker dimensions going to be?
Thanks, That’s a classic looking pig, mine’s a bit different in that it isn’t for noseriding, I’m following the McCoy/Lazor zap way of pigging it so will have about 6 inches of late nose lift and a very flat tail, the flat tail will go way forward. It would be nice to have a crack at a version of your classic noseridng pig as well, I had to flip a coin to decide which way to go.
(above) Arrange all the wood strips top-side up on a large table…With good quality masking tape…Start from the center of the board and use the tape to “tie” one strip to the next…Put tape pieces on perpendicularly from one strip to the next…About every foot…
Good quality tape has some stretch, use it to your advantage…It works great…You’ll figure out how much tension to use in a short while…
(above) After the perpendicular tape strips are all on. Tape over all the wood seams lengthwise…The reason for this is you don’t want epoxy draining through, and gluing your deck / bottom to your work table …The subsequent clean-up / sanding is a hassle…I learned this the hard way…You’ll easily go through a full roll of tape per side…Tape, like talk, is cheap…
Interesting Paul, good reference dims for a classic pig after I get through the Super Pig, we don’t see many of your foam boards here, are you still making them?
