Too chunky?

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Building my second board, my first was a 6’11" round pin thruster, works amazing, not the prettiest board in the world, but I’m not caring too much after surfing it.  The Rusty Dwart outline and a 5’8" fish I tried a few weeks back were my inspiration for this board, right now, it’s 5’11"x21"x2 15/16", bout 3 1/2" nose rocker and 2 1/2" tail rocker at the moment, is that too much foam?  I’m 6’1", 180lbs, been surfing a year, I’m finding it a lot easier to surf shorter boards, and am wondering if this will be a cork if I leave these dims.  Gonna do 5 sets of FCS plugs so I can try different fin setups, primarily a quad, it has a slight single concave and a little V in the tail, and downturned rails.  More pics are at http://fivestevens.net/surfing/chunk/  I’ve thinned out the nose a little since taking this photo, and the purple stringer was all they had in the seconds blank inventory, not my choice!

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A space ended up in the link above, it’s http://fivestevens.net/surfing/chunk/

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Im 5'9'' 175lbs, and i surf a 6'2'' x 22 x 3 twin keel. Ridiculous amount of volume ( flat deck, wide nose and tail ), but its sooo much fun. Mine has a heavy glass job so i think it stops it feeling corky. If you're going for a light glass job, it might feel corky, but if you put a heavy glass job, it shouldn't feel too corky.

 

I think it'll be a fun board either way!

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Planning on 6oz on the bottom, and 6oz on top with a 5oz kevlar deck and fin patch.

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To my eyes the back end looks OK.  I see a lot of boards with a squared off tailblock left thick right to the end. 

IMO the nose might look better if you took perhaps 1" off the bottom in the last few inches.  The end of the nose just looks a bit squared off.  

I'm just speaking for aesthetics and those are always somewhat subjective.  It would likely ride OK either way.  Little details that actually don't matter much on the ride often make or break a shape at first glance. 

If it were mine, I'd go with taking off nose thickness from the bottom and giving it a bit of flip... maybe scrape off a bit of stringer from the top in that section about 1"-6" back.

Thin flipped noses always seem to have a more finished appearance.

Just my .02.  Take it with a grain of salt.... The overall shape has really clean lines, especially for only your second board!

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Beak it!

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Thanks for the encouragement and advice, I thinned the nose out some more, looks pretty good I think, just gotta save some $$ to buy the glass and a few supplies and I’ll be ready to glass it.

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Finished it up, surfed it for the first time today, works awesome,
paddles great, manueverable, everything I was hoping it would
be…except it’s pink, I ended up saving the money for the materials
selling junk from the garage, then my wife got a $500 ticket for
rolling a red light, so yeah, had to compromise, two fins instead of
four, glass deck instead of the kevlar I was planning on, and fins
ganked off my gun in the rafters (FCS G-AM).

Was planning on red, but the
shop only had tints, no pigments, dude said just add some more and
it’ll opaque it, yeah ok, so it’s pink now, dumped the resin, swiped
the squeegie, no stopping at that point guess I should’ve tested it,
lesson one.  Turned out much better than my first board, first time
cutlap, went nice and smooth except I cut some slits on the nose and
tail curve to ease the laminating, the tint shows every error very
well, it’ll remind me for the next board, lesson two.  Beaked it, had to look up what the hell that even meant.  Finished it off
320 wet sanding, no gloss coat, I like the non-shiny finish anyway. 

Wasn’t sure how the twin fins were going to work out, found lots of info for positioning on fish, nothing on squash tails, settled on 7" from the tail, 1.5" from the rail, 5* cant, toe is 3" from the nose, not a lot of toe at all.  Tracked and held well, turned awesome, really responsive, takes input a little differently from all my thruster boards, but it was easy to adapt, I’m sold.  Was a little self conscious walking a pink board through the parking lot to the beach, but after riding it, I’ll do it any day.

http://fivestevens.net/surfing/chunk/