GORDON WOODS EGG

Freshly glossed deck.

DALE V-BOTTOM UPDATE

Glossed on Friday.

Wet and dry and polish next friday.

Hopefully.

GORDON WOODS EGG

Things are progressing.

The second bottom lam was done last weekend.

The fin has been set.

It's a Safe Set copy.

Set 14" up.

The bottom has been filler coated.

A bit of camber there.

New logo to hide that large gash in the deck lamed.

The deck has been sanded ready for gloss.

DILLON POCKET ROCKET

I swapped a 70's San Juan single fin

for this Scott Dillon pocket rocket. 

The deck is good.

The bottom needs work.

I've got a spare

Safe Set fin box lying around

that will slot straight into that hole.

GORDIE

A mate calls up the other day

to ask if I can some repairs on an old log he had just bought.

I ask what is it, and he says its a Gordie

10' of beauty.

Beautiful outline.

Beautiful rails, pinched and well tapered at the ends.

Beautiful rocker.

We are test riding this weekend.

Beauty!!

GORDON WOODS EGG

I was recently made aware that

Damon Gribble at DigiArt Imaging

has logos from days gone by on file.

 Damon told me that he is in the process of scanning a couple

of folders full of original logos from Jim the printer. 

  

ONE LEGGED BY ANDREW MOONEY

I recently fitted some plugs into the deck of one of Andrews boards

 so he could mount a camera.

Here are the results.
Check out Andrews blog.
http://aydotmooney.blogspot.com/

One Legged Mooney from Moonrat on Vimeo.

DALE UPDATE

Unfortunately there is a large ding on the rail.

At some stage it had been filled with car bog and glassed.

This had to go.

The area was cleaned up and a mould was made.

A&B foam was mixed and poured.

The new foam has been sanded below flush.

This will be built up with glass, sanded flush and then capped. 

GORDON WOODS EGG UPDATE

A little while back I acquired this Gordon Woods.

See older posts for more images.

The bottom had some pretty severe foam shrinkage

and needed filling along with the normal dents and dings

acquired over time.

Rather than fill the individual lows and try and sand

them, without sanding down the surrounding foam.

A bog screed was pulled over the whole bottom.

Then sanded fair. 

The rails, nose and tail were also filled where needed.

This board had a yellow tint glass job.

You wouldn't think so by looking at it now.

But there are areas on the deck and under the original fin

 that are definitely yellow.

The original plan was to rebuild the bottom

then do a pigment job to the cut lap line.

But as happens on occasion with these

kinds of jobs, plans can change as the job progresses.

As has happened here.

 The rails really needed some work and some extra glass.

So a pigment glass job around the rails onto the deck

 seemed the logical way to go.

Two layers of 4oz.

One on one to go.

THE 'FALCON' AND 'THE BLUEBIRD'

Glossed and ready for wet and dry

and polish.

DALE V- BOTTOM

I'm not sure what was painted on this board.

But there appears to have been an attempt to remove it at some point.

What ever it is, it sanded off quiet easily.

It also protected the board

from UV attack.

CLOUD BREAK? COTTON WOOL FINS?

I was sitting down having my pre breckie heart starter (coffee) yesterday morning.

Thinking about what boards to work on, and listening to 702 as we do every morning.
When this cloud formation floats by.  

JUST ADDED TO THE LIST

8'6" Dale V-bottom.

9'3" Peter Clarke stringerless.

When I first saw the logo on this board

I thought it was a Norm Casey.

It turns out that Peter Clarke

took over the business from Norm Casey in 1965.

Info via http://www.surfresearch.com.au/mp.html

7228 & 7227

The board 7228 on the left is one of mine.

It is 8' x 24"

The board 7227 on the right is going to be restored.

It is 9'3" x 24"

Both of these boards were built at Gordon Woods surfboards

and they have consecutive production numbers.

So these boards could have been shaped, possibly only hours apart.

But they look worlds and months apart.

The board on the right is a V- bottom without the V.

Everything about it says V- bottom, but the bottom is cambered.

I think it is safe to say it was influenced by the V- bottom.

Now the board on the left is post V- bottom but pre Tracker.

It has a cambered bottom and a flatter rocker.

This shape could have been influenced by the boards
 Midget Farrelly and Wayne Lynch

were getting into in 68.
I think what I'm trying to say here is
history has given us a time line that we know is accurate.
But every now and then boards appear that confuse things a little.
Getting back to the numbers.

Who would of thought that two boards built in 67/68, 

could survive that long.

And then, end up side by side 42 years later.

All be it for a short time.

Mc GRIGOR

The extra rail lams have been added.
The fin has been reset.
Filler coated and sanded.
This pic shows the gloss coat being pulled out.

CENTRAL COAST SURF DESIGNS

Back in December I was asked to restore this old

Central Coast Surf Designs pintail.

Shaped by my mate Bill Cilia.

I sanded the bottom on Friday afternoon. 

Its amazing the difference a piece of 40grit

sandpaper spinning at 1500 rpm makes.

PIG DOG

I had been up the coast for a surfing trip with a mate.

As we merged out onto the highway on our way home 

these guys go by.

Check out the goggles the dog is wearing.

Mc GRIGOR UPDATE

As you can see.

It is ready for some glass.

One layer of 6oz.

The plan is to add a couple of 4oz lams

to build up the rails and replace the rail glass

that was removed.

This board is a rider.

The owner is not one for making them look pretty.

What you see is what you get as far as he is concerned.

But it will be glossed and polished.

Mc GRIGOR SINGLE FIN

I've been so flatout with ding repairs of late.

The restorations have been put on the back burner.

Today I started on this old Mc Grigor.

The deck is ok, but the bottom is pretty sad.

So the plan is to strip the glass of the bottom.

Clean it up and reglass.

So I stripped the glass around the cutlap line.

There are lumps and bumps everywhere.

Those white spots are old repairs

which were left behind as the glass was stripped off.

I was hoping to be able to work within the cutlap line.

But this is not going to be the case.

The rails are pretty beat up

and the foam needs to be shaved down a fair bit.

So I removed the glass to expose the rail radius.

This has allowed me to sand the bottom flat

and redo the rails.

DAVID CHIDGEY

Back in October last year

I started the restoration on this Chidgey.

All the bottom stressies and dings have been prepped

and glass cut.

All glassed.

A new nose was fitted and glassed.

All the repairs were sanded and the

bottom gloss coat applied.

The deck pinline was re done and the deck has been glossed.