Finally finished this one. I made it from dense grey XPS, soft EPS foam and a balsa stringer. I glued up balsa wood and made a stringer copying my 6’0 Griffin 5 fin fish. I glued up the XPS and then cut rocker slices. I originally thought about making a fish, then I thought maybe a round tail, then I thought maybe an assym. I ended up with a round tail, 6-2 x 20.75 x 2.5. I used the Griffin outline, but then I used a round tail outline. The wide point is forward of center, like a fish. Single concave to double out the tail. I used flax and 4oz on the deck, 2x 4oz on the bottom with the last set of proboxes I have.
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Top board. Amazing work with this kind of build. When i think how much i struggle with only two glue lines…
Thanks Lemat. I think this will be the last one. Lots of labor and too many things I have to deal with on these. I’m going to work with the real blanks I have if I make another board this year.
I don’t even know if I can ride it, I will be getting hip replacement surgery next month. I haven’t been able to surf much since last October, and only surfed 2 times in January and once in February. Going to need to do a lot of rehab and swimming after surgery.
Good luck with the surgery.
One question:
If i glue foam like that ( stringerless) can i use a hotwire to cut trough the foam or will the glue be an issue?
cheers and good waves.
I try to cut through pu glue, don’t cut like foam…
but does it cut?
no risk of seting anything on fire?
is it safe to test with a old wire?
cheers and good waves.
Swimming is what I have heard. For a variety of rehab and recovery from injury the best . Good luck with it. Pretty common these days. Know a guy who had three. He had a problem with one and had it removed and replaced. This was when they first started doing a lot of them. I am thinking he got his first one in ‘98 or so. It was amazing how fast he recovered and was surfing in no time. They are so routine these days. Follow the doctors orders for recovery. Some patients try to do too much too soon. Another “something from nothing” amazing board. You did all that glue up of all those strips and still put a nice nose and tail block on? Cool!
Working on a 6’4" channel bottom fish and a 5’10" diamond tail groveler. Both retro-inspired boards with a heavier glassing job are built to last since I’m trying to sell them on consignment to a shop. Bit different from the high-performance shortboards I build, but it’s because I’m trying to cater to older guys looking for boards… since they tend to have more money for these sorts of things than kids my age. But after this, I’m making a custom board for a customer, a larger version (6’0") of a model I call the “Rabid”, one of my favorite boards for the east coast where I’m from. Performance oriented, decent rocker but less than a traditional shortboard for more speed, overall just a fun board that you can surf almost every day. Don’t listen to the liters, the rails are squares but once shaped, and the deck is domed, it’ll sit around 30L.
Yes it cut but harder than foam against so it deviate wire = not a nice cut
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thank you.
Thanks, I don’t know if the glue would be an issue. I haven’t tried using a hot wire after I glue up foam.
My wife did double hip replacement in 2018. She was back in her zumba class in 6 weeks. I think the key is to go to rehab and do all the things they tell you to do at home between sessions.
My brother has had both of his knees replaced ( 10 years apart ), but didn’t do the rehab at home. He still hasn’t been surfing at the beach since the last one about 2 years ago, but he goes to a standing wave and rides that.
I think my wife will be all over me at home making sure I do the exercises. She wants me to be able to travel.
I plan to swim when I can.
Putting a Channel Island “Flyer” back together. A complete snap. Done out in the front yard. Pacific City toilet flush beach break. Going to put it back together like it was going to be ridden. Then shape a copy for the guy that snapped it. He surfs these waves with more class and guts than they deserve. I stabbed it last night with some really thick resin. Going to “splint”, fill, sand and blend(fair), then paint to match foam. Four oz etc. I don’t want it falling apart when I pick it up to examine some aspect of it in my bay. My main concern is always the rocker on a snap. It’s easier to copy a board in one piece, than two. Never learn to cut and paste or drag. Don’t even know what that means. The old Sways would let you click and attach a photo from your library. That was easy. So there will be no pics of this project.
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OK. If that does the trick; I’ll get some pics as I go.
A ryan lovelace pedestrian ship inspired board, im calling it the little red rocket as a tongue in cheek homage.
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Resinhead— Red makes you look fast! So fast that people don’t notice how fat you are. Gets me thinking I need to do myself a red board. That is a nice little board. Some 15 year old kid weighing 150 could rip it up on that. Nice work.