GORDON WOODS

Bottom glossed  & polished.

Ready to go surfing.

GORDON WOODS EGG

I recently aquired this little beauty.

It's 7' 6"

As you can see the bottom is in pretty bad shape.

With a pretty bad gash on the deck.

This is going to take some time.

But I will up date when ever work gets done.

The plan is to rebuild the bottom.

Layup and set a new fin.

 Pigment coat to the cutlap line and pinline.

Leave the deck and rails original.

Not sure about that gash on the deck.

KEEN DAVIS

Another restoration for 2010.

This is a one owner board.

The board is owned by the father one of my regular clients.

When this one is done his mothers old mal is comming in

for a restoration.

SURF SYDNEY AN EXHIBITION

It must be a couple of years ago now.

 I was contacted by Gary Crockett who is curator

with the Historic Houses Trust of NSW.

He was puting together an exhibition on surfing

in the 50's 60's and 70's.
I had thought from time to time how it was coming along.
Then the other day I stumbled across his blog.
Here is a link to his blog.
http://surfcitysydney.wordpress.com/

GORDON WOODS

Fin set up and tacked.

Ready to set.

Set and trimmed.

GLASSING 101

I've been helping a friends son glass his first board.

I must have been explaining somthing.

I seem to have their attention.

Lapping the bottom lam.

I was so involved

I fogot to take photos until we were doing the laps.

Day two. Deck lam.

Got some earlier shots.

Starting the deck lam.

Wetting out.

Filler coating.

UV resin.

It gives one the time, to take time.

BARRY BENNETT POCKET ROCKET

Fin set and trimmed.

Glossed fin.

Masked and ready for pigment.

Tape pulled.

When I was grinding the board

ready for the new fin.

I exposed a hidden production number and length.

SKY KNEEBOARD

Shaped by McTavish.

BARRY BENNETT POCKET ROCKET

Shaped by Wayne Burton.

8'2"

1/2" high density foam stringer

with resin pinline glue up either side.

Well worth restoring.

But it is only in for repairs.

CENTRAL COAST SURF DESIGNS

Hand drawn logo.

7' 6" 70's single fin.

Shaped by my good mate Bill Cilia.

Pre Nirvana.
This board is going to be restored in the new year.

FRESHLY FOILED FINS

A bit of detailing by hand

and they'll be ready to set.

GORDON WOODS

The fin appears to be the original.

But it has been cut down.

A new fin panel has been layed up and is curing.

CHICKEN & VEG?

She's a bit old.

Could'nt do it anyway.

TRIPPLE TREAT

Stacked.

Unstacked.

L to R

Keen Davis, Dale & Gordon Woods.

SELF PORTRAITS

My partner Kay likes to take self portraits.

This was taken a few years ago now at Port Maquarie.
Not sure if she will approve.
I think it is a great shot.

WINDSWEPT COAST

A COUPLE OF RAINBOWS

RON GUN FINISHED

Glossed and polished.

Ready to go home.

Check out

www.davidplattsurfboardrestorations.blogspot.com/

for a full description soon.

SECTION CONNECTOR FINISHED.

Well you can get some idea how long the board is.

It is resting on the barge board not the cladding.

I was hoping to get it in the water today.

The swell is on the rise and at 3' at my

local on a mid tide I thought it may be a bit big

for the maiden voyage.

NEW SECTION CONNECTOR (sort of)

This board has gone through a few changes over the last couple of years.

The first was adding some extra kick in the tail.

This was to try and slow it down and make it noseride better.

Problem was it slowed it down to much.

So the board got shelved.

The next change had the tail cut off

and the square tail was replaced with a bell pin.

This worked well, but it was still too fast.

Time for some major surgery.

I've been keen on section connectors for a while now.

But not willing to fork out the cash to build one from scratch.

So why not cut up the guinea pig.

This board was 9'6"

When finished it will measure in at 11'6"

It was cut in half at the wide point.

Then the two halves were clamped into the jig I use for repairing snaps.

The rocker was adjusted as best I could.

Normally this jig and the bottom are facing up not down.

So the rocker is quite easy to set by pulling down on one end of the jig.

I needed the jig on the bottom to support the blocks of foam.

Shaped and ready for some glass.

The rocker is pretty good.

The plan shape needs a little tweeking.

Nothing a little bog and fairing can't fix.