What tools do I use ?

General Discussion
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A friend of mine gave me a blank. He cut it and skinned it. What tools could I use to finish shaping it. I can get my hands on a Dewalt planer. If I so choose to, what else could I use finish it? Any help would be great.

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Have a search on the site for tools, 25000 references there…

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yeah I found a grip o on tools . . . key words shaping tools or do a search for the surfboard construction document

Hey are you the same lippy in the surfermag forum? I lurk there alot but don’t post . . . looking for needles in the haystack for good surfing knowledge . . .

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Not necessarily in order:

Door Plane

Block Plane

Curved Block Plane

Low Angle Hobby Plane

Spoke Shave

80 grit sanding screen

100 grit sanding screen

24 in long sanding block

soft foam pad sanding block

semi hard sanding pad block

Belt sander

disk grinder

variable speed sander

cordless drill

forsner bits

surform cheese grader

100 grit sand paper

80 grit sand paper

220 wet sand paper

400 grit wet sand paper

600 grit sand paper

polish compound

paint brushes

acetone

fiberglass

rail marking tool

masking tape

paper

calipers

rail shaping tool

small surform

pinline tape

pigment

or

You can probably get by with some 50 grit glued to a chunk of 2x4, and some 80 & 100 grit screens on some soft foam. Get the soft foam from your mom’s couch, just take a razor blade and cut a big chunk out, then flip the pillow over…she’ll never notice. And if she does, blame in on one of your friends.

If you have never used a planer before, and your buddy has semi shaped the board…stay away from the planer, unless someone who knows how to use it is watching you the first time. Not that tricky, but you can get into a mess in a hurry if you do a few, oops, oh Shi%s. Especially if the board is already planed to thickness.

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" Get the soft foam from your mom’s couch, just take a razor blade and cut a big chunk out, then flip the pillow over…she’ll never notice. And if she does, blame it on one of your friends. "

…one for the resources , right there !!!

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Oh man Resinhead, that actually made me laugh out loud at work…Thanks!