Put on your sunday best, Herbie is watching.
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Saturday, February 6, 2010
Boatyard Magic
I needed to install a finbox in Jonny's new spoon for travel and fin playing purposes, so we got creative. about 5 minutes worth of scrounging around the boat yard I came across a pile of scrap Core Cell, a high density foam used in boats and sailboards usually...after about 20 minutes of shaping it against the doorway with a surform, I set in angled blocks against the finbox (which was not installed yet, just propped in there); and let it cure:
The next morning I came back, unstrapped the foam which was now resined in place, shaped it all tidy and flowing up onto the box; then covered the finbox in tape, set it back in there and glassed a shell over the top of it, which once cured provided my finbox with support and a cavity to be sunk into...tadaaaaa:
The finbox will act like a small spine for the tail of the board to twist around, not affecting the flex of the board much more than a glassed in fin would.
Friday, February 5, 2010
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Albers' Duckula
Kyle Albers: Design.
RLovelAce: Shape.
Potential: Ridonculous
CheckTha: Deck flatness
and
Disgruntled small man behind Albers.
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Revenge is a 6'5 Pintail Hull
6'5" x 21" x 2 7/8" for hollow waves...After the past few nights of super negative tide, I can happily say she goes wonderfully in the tube; silky smooth!
Still sussing out the fin setup, so far it's gone best as a single with the fin pictured moved back about 1" from that spot. Feeling like a wide-based, more raked fin with a long flexy tip will be the call in the end but there's more experimenting to be done.
Monday, February 1, 2010
Mondayism
8'4 Hull and beyond...
This to me is the essence of a custom surfboard. Ed emailed me and mentioned that he builds his own boards and experiments with lots of 8'+ shapes; simmons style twins with very wide tails and parallel outlines. He asked if I would brainstorm and work a bit of hull magic into that basic idea in a long parallel outline with a wide and soft tail.
In all honesty when I stepped into the shaping room with this blank I didn't 100% know what was going to come out the other end...when I'm asked to do an experiment or work out a project I usually just start drawing templates until the right one comes along and flows in all the right places...this one did that quickly even though the -idea- of it was a bit odd sounding.
anyways, once I get a template down, I shape the rest of the board to match those curves...my boards rotate around the idea that no curve is out of place, and flows naturally with no forced bends or changes as it goes into the next.
The side boxes are for keels, by the way...
Don't plan too much...you may end up missing out on something interesting.
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