Some picks of a foam core woodstrip surf shape board i am building at the moment.Bought the board at a garage sale for $5, had been snapped in half and very roughly rejoined and a base fitted as a coffee table.If nothing else i wanted to salvage the stringer to use as a template for another project, hollow wooden board (chambered)With the stringer removed i joined the two halves back together and started shaping it down.
With the shaping done i glued on a cedar nose and tail block, got the rail laminates cut and started building up the rails. Scrounged up a variety of timber and started glueig up pannels at 7mm thick,did the bottom in three panels and top in two then put them through the thicknesser and took them down to 4mm bottom and 5mm top and joined them together.
Rails have been sanded to deck contour,no actaul rail shaping until top and bottom decks are glued on,deck recessed and 3mm inserts glued in at foot strap locations.This is the bottom trimmed ready to glue,disaster with the top when i was clamping it down to mark for trimming and it started to let go on one of the joins,had to separate it and re-glue. Think i will mist some water onto it next time i go to mark it to see if it makes it more pliable,the urethane glue i am using is activated with moisture so it shouldnt hurt.Bottom to go on today and hopefully the top tomorrow, then the fun begins with rail shaping
clamps still have the tags... did you keep the receipt?
Yep, but i'm not going back. When i was driving home the penny dropped that 26 x2 wasnt what i paid (cheap as shi!s),grabed one out the bag and the price tag was $1.50, didnt think much about it until i was cutting the tags off,2 of the 26 were marked at $1.50 and the rest $2.00. the checkout chick scanned the wrong/right one.
Disaster has struck twise in one day, split the top deck again after spraying it with a mist of water and trying to set it up overnight to pre-bend some shape into it. Will tape the top of it heavily with masking tape next time before i try and bend it to the deck shape
That polyurothane glue is the stuff, I wish I new about it when I tried to laminate balsa strips to a surfboard deck - I tried to use poly foam which over expanded and destroyed the top.
If you are using the poly glue to stick the strips together for the top deck I would rather use waterproof pva wood glue or epoxy as you try to stick the deck down it would most likely split with the poly glue - which it sound s like it has. I used pva glue to stick the strips of balsa together and the wood gave way before the glue.
Nice job, now I am thinking of how I can revive my stuff up.
Decks are on and tidied up around the edges,a bit of a bevel done but heaps of work left to finish the rail shaping, pretty damn STOKED with the way its looking Weight at this stage 6 kg.
The bad news is, got a wedding next weekend so not much is going to happen for a couple of weeks, i bet its windy as well. Will give me a chance to get a fiew thing organised though, fins, fibreglass etc.
That is looking awesome. You have done a great wood selection. Even if you don't ride it, you now have an even better coffee table.
At the start of the project i conceded that at some point it may become a piece of furniture,not worth the expence of seeing it glassed and functional as a useable board............but having got it to this stage i am commited to seeing it finished. Glassing and fins to go hav'nt even ordered them yet.
Awesome pirrad - looks beautiful. I'm all inspired now. I have an old 6'4" at home that I almost took to the dump on the weekend that I may keep to build one of these.
hav'nt even ordered them yet.
