Tony's board finished and road tested.

Ride report - " Surfed for about 2 hours off the shops at Lennox in 1 - 2ft clean beachbreaks. didn't leak (very important), paddles pretty well, good volume, caught heaps of waves, took a while to get used the nose riding rocker, not as loose as I expected after riding the pintail yesterday however moving the fin up may fix that, trims nice and gets good momentum. Suspect that it will be at home in small point waves, would like it to be a bit more agile so will keep playing with fins until I get it feeling like I can change direction when I want. 10" greenough fin looks at home"

www.tonycrimminstimbersurfboards.blogspot.com

Getting the two boards ready to final shape

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.

Dave's first board

Dave's first board is 6'4" x 21" x 2 5/8" with EPS core, Paulownia rails and bottom with Tasmanian Blackwood veneer deck.


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.

http://davedsurfs.blogspot.com

Troy builds another SUP

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 :
www.talkingfishsurfboards.com

Slowly getting there.

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.

Two boards at once means busy mornings and nights.

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.
More soon.

Nathan Grey builds a nice board.

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.

Nathan is down in Sydney , if you want to check him out :
www.nathanielgrey.com.au/boards

Wooden Board Day in Europe 2010

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.

Plenty of surfboards in this stick

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.