That looks better, just need to blend it all together in the final shaping.
Fine tuning the curves
Looks a bit better when you see all those laminates show up.
Clean her all up and knock a bit of wood off with the plane.
Gluing all the bits together
Planning the angles and mapping out the cut.
Cedar and Paulownia tail block
10 footer all ready for sorting the rails.
Single concave to double concave V bottom with glass on Paulownia fins.
A very nice first effort. Dave will be bringing this up with him from Victoria for the Wooden Board Day so you will be able to check it out.
Getting near the end of a big building project is always exciting
Nose block ready to knock into shape.
Tail block and rails ready for finishing.
10ft 8" Paulownia and Redwood SUP with bamboo paddle.
Now the fun part . Troy builds a number of craft a year and you can check him out at :
Tail block going on Cedar , Paulownia and Cedar again.
Build out the nose as I can't bend the 6mm rail band build outs right around the nose.
The Fish is all but there as well. The Butt Crack needs work.
Nose blocks on and shaped.
Looking good and ready. I have trimmed the rail bands and faired them to the flow of the deck roll and bottom shape ready to start shaping the rails.
Looks good all trimmed and rough shaped.
Awaiting the next step , but close now.
Yes it has been busy laminating railbands on the fish and the log each morning and then again at night.
6mm Paulownia cut to the rocker of the board and lots of tape to pull it into line.
It looks a bit of a mess with all the extra glue, but she will be right.
The fish nearly done...
The 10 footer was a bit easier as I could glue a strip on each side at once as they don't meet.
Last set on .
Now into it with the hand plane to knock off the extra timber.
The cheap electric is all you need to buzz this lot off.
Coming together and starting to clean up. All good.
Trimmed the extra length off ready for a tail block. At this stage you get a good feel for the final look of things. Still plenty to do but this is the exciting part.
Just got these great shots of Nathans latest project. A twin keel fish for Jasper in Victoria. All Paulownia and Western Red Cedar , 5ft 10" x 20" 7/8 x 2" 3/4 , flat bottom to a deep single concave out through the fins.
He has another little hybrid on the go as well. " A 5ft 6" Bob Simmons crossed with a Daniel Thomson jet Tail." He hopes to have that ready for August the 8th. It is great to see such a nice board built in beautiful timbers.
Great to see the boys in Europe are getting organised and having their own wooden board builders get together in Holland. I wish them all the best and look forward to reports.
Paulownia is a fast growing tree that is idea for surfboards.It's light , strong and waterproof in salt water. Ideal for surfboards.
Nice little lump there to start with.
This is the setup of a portable saw mill.
You just set up over the log and whittle away at the log in slices.
The centre of a Paulownia tree is interesting as it has a hollow core just like a piece of bamboo. It even has segments even though they have no effect in the grain pattern of the timber.
Not a bad outcome.
Roger Hall from New Zealand just loves to build wooden boards that showcase his skills and once he gets started he is a driven man on a mission.He has been a great supporter of mine with the Fish Fry and The Wooden Board Day. So I asked a good friend and his blogger Mike to send me a few pictures and words of his latest project.
" Getting a txt message from my friend Roger Hall at 5.00am about a covert raid on locally grown Agave storks is not unusual, in fact it is all part of the fun ride that I have been on with Roger for nearly a decade."
" Roger, my good friend, great surfer and amazing shaper has been on the hunt for all and any species of timber that he can get his hands on was rather stoked when Phil a long-time friend and Ruakaka local visited the Surfline Custom Surfboards factory with three Cabbage tree trunks recently, so with a stash of timber and the Wooden Boards Day in Currumbin AU just around the corner Roger got thinking."
"A chambered Cabbage Tree timber gun with Agave feature beams on each side ?, yip that sounds a good idea !', and so weeks later after milling, drying, gluing, splitting, chambering and re-gluing Roger has a fully shaped wooden big wave charger.
"Sadly this year I will not be at the Wooden Boards Day to help Roger showcase this board and a few little surprises he has up his sleeve but there is no doubt in my mind, that this craft, not unlike the others he has displayed at previous events will have jaws dropping.
Mike will be unable to come over for the Wooden Board Day as he is about to become a dad again , so busy times ahead for him and his family.
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