JB from France shares his two latest projects

 These are a couple of boards from JB who lives in Pays Basque ( South West of France)

" I just wanted to share the 2 wooden boards I made. Both are made from Paulownia.
The first one, is a 5.5 feet hollow alaia. I sealed it with epoxy because I was not really sure of the joints between the panels."

This Alaia is built along the lines of Roy Stuarts method with the lattice frame construction.

"The second one is a 6 feet unglassed; it is a kind of Takayama scorpion.

Thank you for your blog Grant. Seeing so many nice boards made me want to build my own hollow wooden surfboard."

JB

 This building process and method is along the lines of what Tom Wegener does.

Nice looking board JB , thanks for sharing your projects.

The wooden body board

Here is a great project undertaken by Torsten - aka "The Wooden Buddha"

click on the link and he takes you though his whole prcess of building and the techniques he uses to produce a fun project.

Click here - thewoodbuddha.blogspot.com.au/2014/01/building-wood-boogie-board.

Greg's new projects

 Greg Wheeldon , just sent me these shots of one of his latest projects .... "I have been busy in the workshop.  Attached are some images of an 8’ Mal just finished.

I have titled it the “Off Cut Series”, as I had some off cuts of paulownia lying around, and I wanted make up a board from these pieces.  I have taped off and stained the paulownia in two colours to add interest, and inset some strips to separate the colours.

Pretty nice result.

I have stuck with wooden board tradition and made a fish-bone frame, with 6mm paulownia skins, and glass-on fin.  Plywood and cork rails add a darker coloured rail.  The inter-layer in the ply is a white pine, so you get these parallel white  lines running down the rails.  I added a triple inner-stringer to the back half, under your feet, to add strength to the deck.

I used a wood preserver epoxy resin, which is impregnated with anti-fungal and wood preserves.  It is as thin as water, and soaks into the paulownia and western red cedar, but still gives a full gloss finish.  A light sand between coats, and no glass matt, it gives a good gloss finish, but is very thin and light.  The finished board weighs about 6KGs, which is light for an 8 footer.

I will bring this one, plus a couple of others down to the Wooden Board Day in August."

I hope you are in the shed building boards

I hope you are all in the shed building boards or planning to for this years Wooden Board Day on Sunday the 3rd of August at Currumbin Alley. If you have a project underway or are about to start one , send some pics and details of whgat you are up to and share it here for others to check out.

Dumble Surfboards move to New Zealand

"Dumble Surfboards are designed and hand crafted by Simon Dumble who grew up on the beaches of New Zealand, Simon created his first board, a 12' long board, when he was just 16. It has always been a dream of his to combine his fine woodworking skills with his love of surfing. After moving to Alberta, Canada, where the winters are long and the ocean very far away, Simon created his second board. The next summer, he jumped in the car, grabbed the thickest wet suit he could find and took it for a test drive in Tofino, British Columbia. The result of that roady is now Dumble Surfboards."

 Simon has now seen the light and moved back to New Zealand to Ohope and started building hollow wooden boards again.

He builds them start to finish himself , so if you are after a nice looking board you should get hold of him :

www.dumblesurfboards.com   -   www.facebook.com/dumbleboards

www.pinterest.com/dumblesurfboard

Expressions of interst sought.

The Old Mal Australia is seeking any expression of interest in holding a Timber Watercraft Rally with Surf Craft – Canoes / Kayaks – Boats or anything Nautical.

Proposed venue Brooms Head, NSW.

Proposed date July 26th.

Proposed format, surf display – still water paddle display followed after lunch with a Show & Shine.

If there is any person keen to participate please contact Daffy 0414 876 874,

Or daffyshortnsport@hotmail.com

Nathan's hollow Balsa Simmons

 It has been a long time between boards for Nathan Grey from Sydney, but here is his latest creation.

"It is built from some really light weight balsa, board weighs in under 3kg’s. I glass it with entropy resin, 4oz bottom, and 4 + 4oz 2/3rd deck patch. The finish coat is a satin auto acrylic spray, nice fast finish and does not get scratched up easy.
Dimensions are 5,6”- 20,3/4”-2,3/8”, bottom shape is subtle hull entry blending into a single concave that runs between the fins, with a bevelled rail.
All I need now, is some surf."