6ft 6" single fin

This is a board I finished some time ago and have hung onto as I like the look of it. 3mm Paulownia over a Core Fusion EPS blank which are more than rare now. The best EPS balnks we had on the Australian market for sure. Light weight and hard. The board has a 4oz glass job top and bottom , so it is pretty bullet proof but still light enough.

11foot wooden Alley Glider

  

4ft 8" x 18 1/4" x 2 1/4" side cut "Libra"

 A fun little experiment and something different.

Too small for me silly

Glider progress

 Lots of tape and a long way from one end to the other on an 11 footer.

 Last rail band going on

 The little block plane got pretty warm cleaning up the rail bands.

Sweet outline set off by the 3mm Cedar pinline

Bagging the 11 foot glider

 Getting this set up on the bench. I have the blocks in place and screwed to the table to hold the rocker and the 12 foot bag layed out on top ready to take the board.

 I have decided to use some fibre glass fly screen mesh between the EPS and 5mm deck skin to see if it will give a little added support of my 6ft 3" 120 kg sitting on the board in this spot even thogh I will be glassing the finished board.

Bottom glued and 3mm skin in place. Time to start spreading the polyurethane glue.

You don't need alot of glue todo the job. You can see in the foreground how with the humidity it is starting to foam up.

All sealed up in the bag for 2 hours. Big job, big board.

5ft 10" x 21" x 2 1/2" @ 36 Litres Hydro V

 Single to double to V out through the tail

 The rounded hull shoulders on each side of the nose give way to a large concave but then blends into a chine that runs down each side. This captures the concaves and thins out the rail thickness as well before tapering into the V.

9ft Alley Slider in the final stages.

 The rails all cleaned up and ready to start shaping

It is a long way up and down the shaping bay with the handplane when it comes to shaping rails on a longboard. Starting to take shape.

5ft simmons for Christian in Coffs Harbour

 EPS core staright off the machine out on the lawn to cut off the rails

 Rails off and all squarded up, ready to have 3mm of paulownia wrapped around.

 Skins getting bagged on

 All encapsulated in wood and trimmed up ready for laminating the rails on

Rail bands going on

 2 more to go , that will be 3 x 5mm each

 Rail bands all done , just the nose and tail blocks

A fair bit of cleaning up to do with the hand plane before heading to the shaping bay.

A bit of time cleaning up with the hand plane and we are looking more like it.

The top side all cleaned up.

All squared up and then ready to start shaping the rails.

Starting to flow down that rail