funny enough , i had a surf with a 16yo grom yesterday
his board caught my eye
he had reshaped [cutdown] his brother’s 6’8 rusty …
into what looked like a 5’8 kneeboard ??
i realised then that i had video’d him last week with it under his arm , as it was the assy
metricality of it all [plus the psychedelic sprayjob he and his mate had d
one to it] that caught my video eye !
so we swapped stories of surfboard butchery as we waited for waves .
a FUN session , as i also got talking to a french surfer [“…yes i am french why else would i have this OUTRAGEOUS accent , you silly englishman ??”] …unfortunately he` was too young to be familiar with monty python , so he looked at me as if i was a lunatic hahahahhhaaaa
Somehow I’ve managed to acquire a bunch of hollow carbon fins.
By selectively cutting off the tips of 2 and the base of another I end up with fins for a symmetrically foiled 2+1 set up. The original fin as shown is 9".
If symmetrical foils work for Skip Frye and Larry Gephart on their twin keels, maybe they’re OK for sidebites?
Working on a wobble board/balance trainer, saw one at the surf show, great fun, that’ll br £100, but its just a basket ball and same 20mm ply, ball £4 ply free, I’ll be making my own thank you very much.
Also picked up a washed up/abbandoned board at my local beach a couple of weeks back and plan on giving a new life, the have the technology we can rebuild you, make you faster…stronger… the bionic popout. but its my sunday projest so will take time.
going to pick up a blank at the weekend, haven’t planned anything yet so I’ll see what takes my fancy. maby pick up some inlay fabric and some more tints aswell, maybe some more pens, some tape, maybe some fin pannels.
Just done a ding repair workshop, it went down well, I wrote a guide to ding repair I gave away, I was goign to put it up in the resources but the pdf is 82MB any one got any ideas how I can get it out there. Mike could I post you the disc???
This little board has been reshaped from an old 70’s backyard job. It’s a bit of an experiment in regard to the spray. I’m having a 8’ thruster shaped and I wanted to do a tiger stripe. But I didn’t want to go to the extent of doing a traditional style cut lap resin job on a modern shape. So I thought I would see how a sprayed one would go. The base colour was applied then I dipped wool in paint and applied the stripes.platty.
I used the Lowe’s foam method and PU glued the blanks together on a rocker table, but when I tried to bag the CF rails with the balsa skins, the rocker table and bag didn’t provide enough pressure around the rails to keep the CF flat against the foam. Bummer. I’ve got ripples along the rails from the bag where it transitioned from the bag to the rocker table in the bag. Looks like this one is a scrap. Good thing I used “second” CF material, so it didn’t cost all that much.
Great thread, I dont know why but I absolutely love the outline of your #002!!! Makes me wanna shape one myself! Looks like lots of fun to surf that little stub
Cheapo left over spray paint job on my nugget inspired shape. Was going to give up on this board, but i figure i may as well finish it ( it started out as a 7’5’’ minimal blank, but is now 6’5’’ ). It has just over 3’’ nose rocker, so i dont know how it will go, but, i’ll find out i guess.
