I want some concave under the front foot and a bit of vee behind the fins, Is it possible to get the bottom of a compsand board to morph into a vee? Could it be done like this? - you get your concave with concave deck and carbon fibre bonded to inside of bottom skin as per diagram. Rails stop at pod and the tail block is made out of something flexy/springy so your rails can flex in the tail more - you sit your rail fins on carbon ovals attach to the rail. When you crank a bottom turn upward pressure on inside rail and rail fin bends rail upward to create vee. Attaching the base of the fins to the rails with the carbon transfers more upward pressure to the rail. When you are really loading up the board you’re getting lift under you front foot from concave but your tail is holding in due to the induced vee. So would this work? Would it be worth it?, Would there be any negative effects? ie loss of positive feel in tail
Pinhead
its not really a vee its more of a roll , plus you have your foot that the board bends around some as well , you can even get it to the point where you can decide just how hard you jam the back foot in and get your board to linger in the lip a little longer because youve created the Mc coy loaded dome and got a region of low pressure to suck you to the face for a second …the front foot area will automatically concave when you load your weight into it , 2 reasons , your deck carries to the rail and the rails are being forced down harder , the softer bottom will push up , the other more pronounced way is the concave deck , when load is applied from the deck the shape determines that it will want to morph into a concave …
please note , when running a centre stringer with a light glass job , the opposite happens , thats why curves have to be shaped in to compensate for the curves being created when you load it , only problem is your stuck with those curves when your not needing them …
hey pinhead , looks like you got a crash coarse in glassing and sanding coming up …
regards
BERT
Yeah, I had this top guy doing it all for me but he’s been poached.
Oooh I wonder if he’s handsome!
it was the only possible way i could think of to get you to buy one …
hey josh , dont bring a wetsuit , the water up here is warm enough to poach you …
thats what you meant wasnt it pinhead ??
its ok , im sure we can still look after you …
regards
BERT
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the water up here is warm enough to poach you
Yep thats going to be a bit of a change - water temp going from 14 to 21. Still, easier than going the other way.
