Aloha Jim,
I've been privileged to see a few of your restoration projects, over the years. I was not only impressed, I was ASTOUNDED!!! Things I would have thrown away, you turned into functional art. I'll be watching this project, for absolute sure.
Got both rails replaced, gave them an initial plane down to near thickness
Built a sled for my plunge router, didn't want the router base falling between the guides.
The first plank to get routed was any where from 3-1/8" to 3-3/8" wide. Do I screwed down the outside guide and set my adjustable square at 3-3/8" to align 2nd guide evenly.
The routing went much better that I was expecting, here's a new view
Hey Jim,.
A worthy project.
Most folk won't understand.
I mean Matt K's mind...
Balsa? Would this board be prior to the relationship with Joe Quigg?
Nice of you to preserve a bit of history.
Bravo!
this may be the same board...
Well, it was said to me it is a Kivlin, but when I butted my Velzy / Jacobs Malibu Chip template up against it from the tail, 75% of the board fit exactly, only the curve of the nose is different and some of that could be the many repairs it had incurred over the last 68 or so years.
Edit
I'll quit on this....
Jim already said.
"The Chip was an offshoot from Quigg, who worked with Simmons until they had a falling out, the Quigg versions had the single concave bottom, but broke away from the slab sided template. The tails stayed wide in the beginning, but the outline had gotten curve through out it, by the time Velzy and Jacobs began building the design, the tails started being pulled in and the wide point moved forward."
http://www.swaylocks.com/forums/malibu-chip-info
Side note,
I think it was Buffalo who commented on the "crew from Malibu"
spinning out and bouncing around on " those wide tailed Simmons"
He took eception to Matt's board with it's pulled in tail.
Aloha!
The above surfboard, being waxed by Matt Kivlin, not only looks short, but scales out at eight feet or less. No question in my mind, Kivlin was a real forward thinker.
Almost finished with the Kivlin when I get the emergency call to look at a chambered balsa that popped on the roof of the car on a steamy day.
A board by the worlds greatest builder.
The shaping was bad and the chambering was F'ing pathetic and the client paid 3 grand.
Got the Kivlin / Quigg / Velzy / Jacobs, I was told Kivlin, but my Velzy / Jacobs Chip template fit exactly to 75% of tail to ahead of center.
Inlayed all the bad with new and flattened the glue seams, turned rails, sanded it out
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