The pull of vacuum

 It is  quite amazing how much curve you can pull with the vacuum bagging process. This is a 3mm skin of Paulownia on the bottom of a board I worked on over the weekend.

 This is the tail of a 4ft 8" x 17" Slimmons on the way.

4ft 4" x 22" Simmons in the bag. 3 in a day gives me plenty to work on in the coming weeks laminating rails.

Finless fun...

Good Woodz from Bryce Young on Vimeo.

The modern Hot Curl by Roger Hall

Build it from scrap

Experiment No. 3 - Scrap Surf from Shwood Eyewear on Vimeo.

Foam and wood

 New Zealand shaper Roger Hall is a master at whatever he puts his hand to. His current passion is revisiting the Hot Curl model and ramping it up with more than a modern twist.

 These boards are finless and the wood adds the weight to help hold the tail into the power of the wave.

 As you can see it is a pretty solid lump of wood , but not just one piece. Roger loves to laminate and mix up the timbers he uses.

 Not only is it very hard to work with wood and foam together due to the differences in densities but he has so many different timbers that vary as well to make it even harder. And this is all hanging off the end of the foam. A true test of anyones skills. But as you can see not only is it a great design with the flowing lines of the board enhanced by the beautiful timber.

 Hands of the master.

 Form and function

 Who do you know that would cut and glue up 7 stringers and foam like this. I have seen him do 13.

Great shots from Mike C. Lets hope Roger can make it to the Wooden board day this year.

Mixing it up.

 From James at : kirisurfcraft.blogspot.com.au   " Here is my latest board - I've called it the Flounder.

The Flounder is one strange fish. Should be a blast to ride though.

The Flounder is inspired by Tom and John Wegener. It is a combination of my parabolic alaia, my traditional alaia and mini simmons hybrid. Here is the Flounder and its cousin the Alaia Hybrid. Both about to be branded and oiled."

Looks like some interesting craft with lots going on and great to see James experimenting. Will wait to hear how they go. Alaia's are not easy to ride and this is surely mixing it up. Nice one James.

Berlin build by Jan Dressler

 This is a board that Jan Dressler built in his apartment in the middle of Berlin. This is a wave SUP that is Paulownia vacuum bagged over EPS and lanolin finish. " This July the board will travel with me to Sylt a small island on the boarder of Germany and Denmark. "

" Here you can see a slight sort of dent in the rail. This happened very early when I was trying to get a clean outline out of a vertically glued up blank. As I hadn't found a supplier for 3000mm plus EPS blanks of the right density I glued up 1000x500x100mm pieces. The naturally harder glue lines crossing the foam  outline made impossible for me to keep it flawless while shaping."

 "Here's another example in the very tail section. (Pls note the Elu planer. It is a marvelous alternative to the notorious Skill 100 for much less money and 240V. Similarly rare though."

 Bagging the deck.

 Nice touch with a small ebony tail block

" Grant please meet Anita. She's my first one and designed as a paddleable blend between a flatwater cruiser, a floating taning plattform and a '65 Riva Super Florida. The hollow non laminated Strip and Feather construction is quite leaky but everybody loves her.

Jan and I had been in touch on and off throughout last year and at Christmas he came out to Australia with his wife and twin 5 year old boys. They travelled from Melbourne to the Gold Coast in a camper van. I met up with them for a day surfing in Byron Bay and then they stayed with us here on the Gold Coast before heading out of Australia. Jan works in the film and television industry and loves his surfing.

Jame's 6ft 6" simmons

 James Mason from Adelaide South Australia got hold of me a while ago to see if I could help him with a board. So I designed him a 6ft 6" simmons and got it hot wired out of VH EPS for him. Then I glued the first rail band on and had the board cut on the AKU machine. Packed it up and sent it to him. James then vacuumed the skins on and laminated the rails before shaping them.

This is the result. A great looking board for a big guy to have fun on.

"Got it in the water this morning ,very surprised at how easy it was to catch waves on a board that is nearly three feet shorter than anything else I have ridden.
The biggest surprise of all was that I could get up and turn the bloody thing! I was concerned that I wouldn’t be able to ride it at all."

6ft 6" x 24" x 3"  62 lt

Plenty to look at...

Hi guys,
 sorry I haven't been posting as much as I sometimes do, but have been busy with work. But there are  plenty of pages to sift through before this one. Thanks for all your interest and support. If you have a project or a something to share send it to me.

Busy man

 Geoff Moase from Dovetail Wooden Surfboards here on the Gold Coast has busy building a new range of boards.

 Geoff is also our go to man for Paulownia here on the Gold Coast. He can mill it to what ever you need to build a board. As you can see he knows his stuff and can guide you with his experience.

 This is his son Jack a keen surfer as well as learning the trade.

dovetailwoodensurfboards.blogspot.com

http://paulowniatimbersales.com.au/