It’s 5+5 oz up front / full deck. And the patches are 4 oz each.
It’s a heavy glassing with this kind of patches. But on this kind of board I wanted some extra weight. (2lb eps blank). And I Iike my boards to last. So I don’t mind.
The bottom is 4+4 as well
Pretty much the same glassing shedule as the old one. And I liked the feeling of that.
Finished and waiting for the next surf holiday.
Paddlestar Galactica 7’8 x 20"7/8 x 3"1/4
It’s 2lbs blockcut EPS + epoxy glassing. Bottom is a bit of vee throughout, with a bit of spiral vee / shallow double concaves in the last 1/3 of the board. Vee behind the fins.
Moderate nose rocker (4"7/8) and good amount of tailrocker with a bit of flip (2"7/8).
I like it.
all the best
That will be a lot of fun. Nice job.
Looks great! Very nica colour work. Board looks very fast and due to length and height (volume) and the relative low rockers it should justifiy its name… 
Flippin beautiful.
Thank you for the kind comments.
Here´s a picture with the old one.
Sorry for the blurred rockershot.
Funny thing is, the new has the same thickness (different foil though) and has more volume. But it hides it quite good. Doesn´t look like a bigger board than the old one.
The old one should be in the ballpark of 47l and the new one somewhere in the ballpark of 55l.
(I always take samples of the densitiy of my foam and my stringerwood. I weigh the shaped blanks and get a feasable estimation of volume from that.)
The pictures show the added tail rocker / acceleration and the reduced swing weight in the nosetip. I shifted more of the volume closer to the chest area on the new one.
I hope with this modifications the longer 7’8 turns as good as the old 7’5.
…hello; both have nice outlines.
The gloss coat is epoxy too?
“V” is better to fade out behind the center fin.
Normally in Europe the houses are not so big (except in the country side) but seems that yours is due to that room only to have that enormous HIFI.
I really like music too; also I studied music and played in bands. I have a Yamaha hifi stereo.
Hello Reverb.
It´s 100% epoxy (pinlines and gloss, too).
On the bottom: My description was bad / to short and more about where the concaves are…
I meant the very shallow double concaves in that vee are just in front of the fins and fade out completely where the rear quads are. From the rear quads on there is vee only (no spiral vee) and it fades out to zero at the tailtip. It´s not a ton of vee at all, very subtle bottom contours on the whole board.
I rember a lot of you guys saying fade out the vee at the end/behind the fin, it is faster. That´s why I did it.
I´ve been to Nazare last week and went to the board exhibition. There are maybe 30 paddle guns on display (and tow in boards, but im not interested in those).
I´ve taken a very very close look to all bottoms and rails. The full on guns all had extreme vee behind the fins. I was really surprised. Must have been 1/2" on most boards.
But those monster guns are of course a different kind of board and made for totally different waves. I guess it´s to help getting those big boards up on rail.
The house is not super big. I´ve drafted the house and built a good part of it myself.
The upper floor is just one big open spaced room (living room+kitchen) with a high sloping ceiling.
The room is apr. 26ft x 33ft and the ceiling is sloping from 7ft to 18ft height.
I have an old picture, which shows a bit of the ceiling/height. And a recent picture (but it doesn´t show much of the room).
The pictures show the living room, which apr. is half the space of the upper floor area. The rest of the room / the kitchen is not in the pictures (right side of the old fisheye picture).
I love music. Mostly blues, jazz, singer songwriter, handmade music and such. I don´t listen to electronic music a lot.
The whole stereo is DIY (speakers, amps, turntable, tonearm and so on).
It´s not about playing loud, though it may look like that. But I like my music to sound like a good live gig in a small location. Direct, punchy, honest. That´s what it´s made for.
The speakers you see in the pictures are playing down to 70Hz. There are two bigger subs (hidden in the next room) covering 30-70Hz.
Building the big horns is what got me into shaping boards. My surf buddies said “Shaping horns like this doesn´t look so different to shaping boards, you should try buidling boards.”
The big horns are XPS core, covered with mortar and glasfibre mesh and then glassed over with resin and glas cloth. Each one of the big ones is 250lbs.
The smaller ones on top (high/mid coax) are casted concrete (120 lbs each).
Very cool stuff, thx for sharng. The boards are beautiful too.
…the V in those big guns is due as you say to turn the board because your back foot is so forward in such big board and design; plus those waves are never perfect; moves plenty of volume and are not glassy so no matter at the end.
A super V can be shaped in a dedicated specific board with plenty of area to surf small waves; mostly based on the Mc Tavish s early ones.
–I asked about the gloss because some say that epoxy cannot shine like polyester…
–great space that you have there; contemporary cozy. I do not have enough space to carry big speakers.
Last year I battled to buy a great plot here but in the end one of the owners decided not to sell it.
Building a nice house is super expensive here; not impossible but near; hence most rent one or build a not so good or designed one in not so good locations.
Now I am rebuilding the kitchen. Here the construction is done with bricks, cement; gypsum etc. Doing the electricity system all new in all the house; doing all the ceilings with wood and all the walls finish (stucco)
–What about Rock? dozens of styles but can be strident? I like fat; mid range; crunchy, creamy sound when is rock.
Thanks for the explanation.
I never managed to get it to shine like polyester. But I only do fake gloss finish. Which means I leave the gloss as it is and only scrape/polish the tapeline on the rail.
It usually comes out quite good / glossy (like in the picture iof that channel twin) . But I seldom do glossy boards anymore (1 out of the last 10 maybe), I like sanded finish better.
This board will get a sanded finish, too. I mostly sand to 400grit wet. I just like the feeling of the sanded finish better. Especially with winter gloves.
I already sanded the whole board down with 240 grit. 320 and 400 wet will follow maybe tomorrow.
Even when I leave it as a gloss finish, the boards get a bit dull over time from sand, boardsocks and such. It´s simply not as hard as polyester.
Wow, sound like a good project you have there.
Ah, of course. I forgot that. In fact I got a wide spread music taste. There is also some electronic music I like a lot.
The only music I never developed an appreciation for is kind of “house and techno and dancefloor” music (don´t know what to call it).
And yes, you are right. Some music and especially rock/punk/metal can sometimes be a bit strident.
I have music, that I like to listen to on my bad car stereo (stock) or in the shaping bay. But sometimes I can´t stand it on my home stereo.
Those speakers are horribly honest and that makes it hard sometimes.
Thank you.
Where is here? 
Nice stuff Mi. Good old “tube sets”.
You have done such a lovely job, and really shown the potential of Eps.
I also love your sound system, I. Love music, anything from reggae to classic!
Anyway, how did your board ride???
Simply NOT TRUE. By 1958/1959, the classic WP forward, streamlined big wave gun design, was firmly established, and in common use on the NS. In late 1959, influenced by Jim Fisher, I built and rode a 9’ 10’’ x 21’’ balsa Pintail Gun very similar to the 10’ 3’’ pintail I’m riding in my avatar photo.
Thank you Billy.
I have only ridden the yellow board in small waves in the northsea. All I can say is, the added tailrocker seems to work out. Felt nice and responsive. But no proper waves yet.
I should be on a camper van trip through Basque Country and Northern Spain right now. But Covid changed everything.
Nobody knows when travelling will be possible again.
So…I guess my plans to test out my recently built boards will have to wait till winter 2020 or even 2021 (which will be Cornwall again).
Little Zingerella is also waiting to take her first swim.
7.0 Zinger (all credits to ACE) inspired board with an optional small trailer fin.
Supposed to be kind of an allrounder for me. I love bonzers and I love twins, so it was about time for a Zinger kind of fin setup.
Well fingers crossed that the opportunity comes sooner rather than later. We had a few bigger days in Cornwall this winter, but the end of 2019 was really good compared to January February.
Me and a friend were out at Newquay Harbour and we looked at each other and laughed, was about double over head. I was on a 6’4 and questioning my life choices!
I note you have a channels twin too, I’m very interested in this shape at the moment, having run keels in my midlength it was incredibly good
Irony is lost on the Ignorant. Some people got it, but the one it was directed at wasn’t one of 'em.
