Yes. I recently tried rock hopping with my light wind ply board. No hopping happened, just crunching underfoot. Ugly. A new board was on the cards anyway. Shortly after that my mid range board suffered a "split" near the tip thanks to aircraft baggage handlers. Thankfully this board still worked fine on Tuesday in the crankin SE we had though. Gotta go, vac pump needs finishing and need to laminate the core for my new boards.

Would I go back to a production board? No thanks. Wouldn't give me half the joy of riding my own. Cheers, Warren

caz said...

hey nuker how do you build the vac pump?
i have an old fridge to sacrifice for the cause..

caz

Theres a "how to" part on it articles.
Here we go seabreeze.com.au/Members/Content/Articles/Windsurfing/How-to-build-your-own-vacuum-pump-for-under-50_1293413.aspx

Choady said...

Where abouts is a good site can you find the gouge on the net to make your own board?

Looks like fun and something I could have a crack at whilst waiting for some wind

Especially seeing the frequency of losing my boards..........

Hey Choady,

I made a plywood board last winter and got a lot of info from a co. called Racing Finish in the UK. The web address used to be www.racingfinish.co.uk but the link seems to be dead. Anyway, I bought a step-by-step guide on making a board from them in pdf format. If you know of a way of receiving large files (65MB) let me know and I can send it to you.

Hey Nuker,

Good luck with the vac bag!
Have a mate who's working on one of those, seems like a mission to get sorted! Would love to give it a go tho. Are you putting concave in your board?

As for ideas for making my board, I think I read an article on here one day that just spoke about someone cutting a shape out of a 'marine grade ply' - that's not marine ply but close enough, and cheaper - Cut out my shape, curved it using 2 different methods for my first board and this one.
1: Strapping the board to the work bench, wet it then steamed it with an iron - worked ok, iron was kinda effed....
2: soaking the whole board in a bath, then putting the 2 tips under a piece of wood, whole heap of weight in the middle till it had enough rocker, left it to air dry and hey presto!

Couple of coats of a polyurethane and I'm done!

Where's the wind?

does anyone know where can i get a hold of abs rail and the same core material that is used in modern boards.

cheers