A BOARD WITH A LIGHTNING BOLD ON IT UPDATE

Bottom glossed.



SIMON ANDERSON RESTORATION UPDATE

Getting there.

Finally got to glass the bottom today.

All the holes, cracks, delams etc

have been taken care of and sanded.

Deck glass and fillers tomorrow.

Then the fins.

TEMPLATED BOARDS

L to R

9'1" Gordon Woods.

9'6" Gordon Woods.

9'4" step nose Shane.

L to R

6'6" hull. (a composite of 2 templates from book)

7'6" Gordon Woods.

5'7" Steve Lis quad fish. (template from book)

8'2" Keyo Plastic Machine.

TEMPLATES

I might only shape one or two boards a year.

But when a board comes in for some restoration work

and it is a special looking shape, I'll pull a template off it.

Some of the templates above are taken from

James Kinstle's book

Surfboard Design and Construction.

http://jfmillbiz.home.comcast.net/swaylocks/Surfboard_Design_and_Construction_1977.pdf

My current ride,

a  9'6" pig was put together using some of these templates

and a few others not shown.

I might own the templates

but I don't own the designs.

If anyone wants a copy I am more than happy 

to make a copy and pass it on.

I'll post images of the boards shortly.

These boards are from the late 60's and 70's.

They are becoming rarer and rarer.

So I think we need to document as much as we can.

This is why I also document all the dimensions etc,

 of all the pre 70's boards I restore.

Photos are taken of everything.   

  

FOAM HANDPLANE UPDATE

Bottom lam down.

Red pigment stripe and dot.

With blue tint.

Laps cut.

Its hard enough doing this on a full sized board.

Let alone something 13" long.

Finished.

The legrope plugs are a great idea,

but not mine.

Inspiration came from

enjoy handplanes

My original plan was to use FCS plugs.

Wet and dry finish.

The strap is the double sided Velcro.

TC "YASI"

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You have to feel for the people living in Queensland.

First the floods.

And now this monster bearing down on the coast

between Cairns and Innisfail.

BODYSURFING FUN

We've jumped on the hand plane band wagon.

Goes round comes around.

I can remember making these things

back in the late 60's as a kid.

The one on the left is cedar.

The one on the right is foam ready for glass.

Stay posted for updates.

First oil coats.

More oil.

HOLIDAY PROJECT

My partner Kay recons I need a Christmas Holiday project.

So here is this years project.

Back in 2004 I downloaded a PDF via Swaylocks.

It was an out of print book called

Surfboard Design and Construction.

http://jfmillbiz.home.comcast.net/swaylocks/Surfboard_Design_and_Construction_1977.pdf

It has some good info on surfboard evolution,

surfboard dynamics, design etc.

It also has some designs to build.

This is the third board I have build

 from the designs in this book.

It is a bit of a hybrid of two of the designs

and a curve from a Keyo Plastic Machine

I restored last year.

The nose to the wide point was taken from the

6'6" Teardrop in the 2nd image.

The tail was taken from the 6'8" egg.

Unfortunately I could not get the two templates to blend.

So I had to use a longer curve which I found in the Keyo.

The blank was salvaged from an 80's McTavish mal 

that was found on a tip on the far north coast by a friend of ours.

It was beyond restoration. Most of the glass had delamed

and the foam had shrunken between the outer stringers.

So it measures in at 6'6"

20.72" wide @ 2'6" from nose.

The nose is 17.60"

The tail is 15.10"

Not sure what the thickness is.

It is about 2.5"

It has a slightly cambered bottom

with a tucked under edge

blending just forward of the fin.

With a subtle S deck and a flat rocker.

This book is American.

The measurements are a bit confusing.

It uses inches and decimal inches.

So if you want to use the numbers you will need to convert the

decimals to mm or the nearest 16th or 8th etc.

Most of the decimal fractions convert to 64ths"

A bit of colour.

Some glass.

Double 4oz on the deck.

Single 4oz on the bottom. 

10" box.

Glossed.

Gloss sanded to 600 wet and dry.

Waxed and ready to go.

THE SPIDER AND THE WASP

I've seen these guys flying off

with a live spider in their grasps.

But I think this guy may have bitten off

more than it could chew.

The spider was dead when I found them.

All of its eight legs had been removed.

By the wasp I expect.

I think the spider was to heavy

for the wasp to take flight.

So it was walking around on the deck

with the spider in its grasp.

ALMOST FINISHED

Five days to go.

This image was taken at the end of last week,

so some of these boards are now gone.

But there is still a bit to get through.

Then its three weeks of surfing, sleeping in,eating,

and maybe the odd trip to the dark side.

SUP  OSITORY

I'll say no more.

That's if my hands last the distance.

A BOARD WITH A LIGHTNING BOLT ON IT

I've been working on this board

for a while now.

But I have neglected to post any images.

The deck is in pretty good condition,

apart from a dodgy leg rope plug instalation.

The bottom and rails haven't been so lucky.

So the first thing to do was to sand

and glass the rails.

Now the dings and lows can be repaired

without worrying about sanding through.

The original pinlines on the deck are now protected.

Cutting the lap.

The deck lap.

HARTLEY HI- RIDER UPDATE

A new fin has been made and set.

The bottom has been sanded ready for glossing.

TWO MORE

Two more to restore.

A Bluebird built at Bennetts.

And a Piping Hot twin fin.

REALLY COOL LAMS

If your are into a bit of colour in your lams.

Have a lookhere.

They are works of art.

For hanging on the nose.

Not the wall.

MC COY TWIN FIN

Just in for a restoration.

Those fins look like walrus tusks.

A bit of lateral thinking here.

Leg ropes have come along way

since this prototype.

HARTLEY HI-RIDER

The nose and tail on this board were in bad shape.

Rather than try and repair them.

It was easier to cut them off and replace them

with cedar blocks.

Primed and ready to glass.

SHAVINGS

I've been making some cedar

nose and tail blocks

for a board that I am restoring.

It is a special a sound, a razor sharp plane makes,

when cutting through soft timber.

BACK TO FRONT

I've retired on of my logs.

I'm not quite sure what to do with it.

My options are.

Sell it.

Strip it and shape another.

Or do nothing and have it getting in the way.

While it was getting in the way the other day,

I was looking at it and I had a light bulb moment.

What if I stick a fin on the nose I thought!

Rocker looks ok.

Not sure if I can be bothered.

At the end of the day

there is still no camber in the bottom

and it is back to front.

Might be easier to sell it 

or just let it get in the way. 

A COUPLE OF OLD LOGS