9 foot performance longboard for Dave Ogle

A simple way to scribe the rails and cut them off

 End grain Paulownia makes it easy to bend around a tight tail and steam helps get it round the nose.

3mm rail band on not a lot of foam.

End grain timber makes it easy to wrap around a tight tail.

Very sharp and a great weight to slice along those rail bands.

6mm wrapped round the outside and trimmed down.

Rocker bed set up ,blank on top and 5mm skin cut and ready.

I normally bag the top and bottom skins on together but this board has a lot of nose to tail rocker and deck roll which means the 5mm has a lot of bending and pressure on it to pull down. So I steamed along the rails and in the middle which softend it up lots.

So as you can see it pulled it down and we now have one very soild unit

4mm bottom skin on

 Nice concave and rail chine

Looking good. All ready for Dave to pick up and laminate the rails on over Christmas. He will finish it with Lanolin.

As you can see he did a pretty nice job

5ft 10" keel fish

 A slightly modified Hydro V bottom with chines and a concave deck. US Blanks EPS and 1/8" Paulownia stringer. Nice  foam and shapes well. I have a set of wooden keels for it.

5ft 10" x 22" x 2 1/4" 35 litres

Concave deck

 The chines show up well here and line up with the leading edge of the fins

Thanks to family and good mates

A great 60th birthday present from some great Family and friends.

7 foot 6" pintail edge board inspired by George Greenough

 A new project is always exciting to get started on.And this one has a few challenges ahead.

 7ft 6" edge board in EPS

 

I made a mini simmons and fish with these bottom contours a few years back, now and there seems to a new interest in them.

 Concave deck

Lots going on. Single to double to V and the hard edge holding it all together as a narrower planing area under a wider deck area.

Carbon added to the underside where the wood won't bend

All trimmed up

Going to be a nice contrast with the wood.

 Looking good

Get those first rail bands on.

4mm deck skin going on

Hugging all the contours

 

New board for John Winship

John Winship loves his collection of hand shaped Skip Frye boards. But with a restriction of 9ft to take on the plane to the Mentawais in a couple of weeks he needed to scale one down. He showed me his 9ft 8" and we set about measuring it up and getting a file together. So we settled on a 8ft 10" with truster setup and fin boxes.

It was a mad scramble to get a blank and get it cut. But it all came together and I finished it off in the shaping bay under John's watchful eye.

 All ready for Mo to get into the glassing to meet a tight timeline.

 You won't miss John in the lineup.