Unique wooden boards

Darren MacDonald build some very different surfboards " One of a kind surfboards at play with the nature of the wood from which they emerge. Dugout - hand shaped and chambered hollow. Carved from cedar salvaged on BC's West coast."
 Here are some of his unique boards.

 Dugout canted foil · low rocker · single concave · chined step rails · swallow tail · FCS twin fin

Adze carved and burnt deck raises grain for grip · slight dugout canted foil · step rails at round tail · belly to concave to vee · 8″ single fin box

Check out more at : www.metasurf.ca

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."