Nice one looks good hope it doesn't delam on you.Good work

Looks noice, so we will be expecting a report soon on how it go's then?

If anything if it dosnt go good on the water you good always hang it up on the wall it looks great . TOP job i want one . Might have too give it a go myself and i dont now anything about surfboard curves but if it looked 1/16 like what you have made who would care . Sweeeet job hope it rides well for ya .

at least if its a bum surfboard it will make a kick ass table or wall decoration! I'd love to give it a go. Bring it along next Thursday night. I need a smaller board for bigger days but that is a bit wide for me.

peanuticus said...

at least if its a bum surfboard it will make a kick ass table or wall decoration! I'd love to give it a go. Bring it along next Thursday night. I need a smaller board for bigger days but that is a bit wide for me.

Will do Pete. It's 5'5" x 19 1/4". Should be fun in small surf.

KIT33R said...

EB said...

Nice one looks good hope it doesn't delam on you.Good work

No fireglass on it, if that's what you mean. Paulownia is a very light waterproof timber used in boat building. I only added varnish to the raw timber. Will soon see how it holds up to the test of time.

No I was talking about the lamination of the boards.Anyhow looks great.

What a piece of crap. Total waste of effort. Chuck it out in the garbage.







But don't do it until Tuesday. I can't drive down to Sydney before then to rip it from your garbage pile

Fantastic job mate. It looks sensational. Well done.

What a top effort Mr G, absolutely awesome job.

Maybe now you want to sell the Shinn huh?

Good on'ya mate.

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wave knave said...

is that some kind of mutant fire-breathing caterpillar in that picture... interesting.

We've got a lot of weird artwork around the house. My wife's late mum was a well known artist, so we've been fortunate over the years to have in our collection many of her works. As to the "mutant fire-breathing caterpillar", I'm not sure what it is but boobs and bums feature heavily in many pieces

KIT33R said...



It's heavier than a foam fibreglass board but still not too heavy. I guess that's why they use foam

Actually, one of my biggest complaints in trying to use standard surfboards for kiting is that they're TOO light. A super-light epoxy or fibreglass board sits high in the water, has very low mass and while it may turn easily, it gives you a bouncy, unstable feeling when your're riding it. You want the board to cut through the water, not sit on top of it.

I had a tuflite (epoxy) board a few years ago that was 6'2", super light and you would have thought to be a great kiteboard, but it felt terrible. After I got rid of it I replaced it with a Slingshot SST--same dimensions but a completely different board. The extra weight of the SST made it cut through the water better, it didn't bounce around and just felt all around far better than the tuflite board.

So, the fact that this wooden board is a bit heavier is actually an advantage and a benefit for a kiteboard.

Shapers who design big-wave surfboards and tow-in surfboards use similar construction techniques to ADD weight to boards (lead weights in the centre of the board) to add mass and give you better planing ability and more momentum. The LAST thing you want on a 20ft+ wave is to be bouncing around on a super-light board.

looking forward to seeing it tonight.