Just in time for Santa

This board is based on a late 50's pig style. It has a cloth inlay on the underside of the deck and same detail on the fin. Tail block is checkered cork and ply with Australian Banksia either side. Rails are laminated cork strips, both top & bottom decks are softwood ply. Nose block detail is a combination of soft & hardwood ply with a Australian Banksia insert. The board is a touch over 9'4".    

Pacific Palms Sunset

It's Been Along Time......................................................

Quite some time has past since my last posting. Work and Uni have taken up a lot of my time. August and September allowed me to make some progress on a wooden board project and a weekend away to Pacific Palms with my lovely wife (surfboards included)

Terrigal Rock Platform

Some of The Blue Bay Locals..................nuf said!

The 2011 Magoo Longboard Classic, Cabbage Tree Bay - Norah Head

Easter Weekend @ Narrandera 2011

The Finished Foot Print

Endless Corridor

While my foot print longboard is at Sandy's getting glassed, I thought I would share some photos......

Pre Glassing

Shaping & Sanding

Ready for assembly & glass

Cork rails are all glued and ready to be trimmed and shaped. The tail & nose blocks will be glued after the rails are shaped. The fin is ready and foot print air vent ready. Weekend here I come...........

The last cork strip has been glued & set. This side of the board is now finished and it will be flipped over. The laminating process to be copied on the opposite rail.

S/S Air Vent & Glass Fin Blank

The air vent on the left. Counter sunk holes around the outside for fixing to the board, and the vent hole is in the middle. A nut is welded on the back to allow the bung to be screwed in the vent hole. The glass fin is semi finished. It will be glassed to the board using rovings and then finished polished integral with the rest of the board.

Laminating The Cork Rails

This is the frame work I glued together and posted some time back as the first board for 2011. I am now up to the stage of laminating the rails. The cork sheet is 1200mm wide and cut into strips 80mm wide x 3150mm long. A total of 8x 6mm strips will be laminated per side. This equals a cross section of 80x48mm of solid cork stock for shaping the rails. This is a long process as the laminating of each strip only takes 15min, the glue takes 12-15hrs to dry hard.

Random Hooters

Narranderra Easter Car Show 2010

Camping Ground Customline

Smiths Lake Rainbow

First wooden longboard for 2011

I'm unsure at this stage on how to finish this longboard. But with all the frame work & deck skins glued up at least I have a good blank canvas to work from.

Boomerang Beach. June 2010 weekend away

Blue Bay, Australia Day. 8:15am, humidity haze like I have never seen before. From the car-park you couldn't see the water!