The fin is just a tiny little guy. It was tacked on with some metal pins!
Those ''metal pins'' are in fact two finishing nails, after being tapped into the wood of the fin, had the heads cut off with cutting pliers. The cut nails are then aligned with the centerline of the board, and then shoved through the botton lam, so the rope and glass can be added, without losing the alignment of the fin. This was the technique taught to me by Ronald Patterson, when he was glassing for Wayne Land (Burland Surfboards) in 1958.
I might get hammered here, but I was thinking of just cleaning up the rotten nose. This would keep the outline and overall design the same but at 10'0 instead of 10'6. The benefit would be no new wood scarfed in.
Do NOT reshape this board, I have done frame offs for Kivlin, Quigg's. Velzy's.
it is a slow and deliberate job of the rebuilds, but a good job is a job worth doing
I saw Jim's finished work on those boards first hand. Simply OUTSTANDING, in every sense of the word. Please follow his advice, and his example. You will not regret the experience.
The bottom 2 photos are the same board, a Kivlin brought to me by Rorce Cansler and a Paul Naude.
The poor survivor had suffered abuse by many hands over the years, it had been badly repaired using auto body Bondo, Plaster of Paris and surfboard foam.
Termites had done a fair amount of damage also, I had bass wood straight edges I screwed into the wood and ran my plunge router with a template collar to remove rotted and damaged balsa down to a 3/8" slot that I would hand fit 25 year old balsa as a new skin, I repeated this on subsequent planks until I had removed and replaced nearly all the wood..
it sits center place in Sun Diego board sports in Carlsbad.
I might get hammered here, but I was thinking of just cleaning up the rotten nose. This would keep the outline and overall design the same but at 10'0 instead of 10'6. The benefit would be no new wood scarfed in.
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Do NOT reshape this board, I have done frame offs for Kivlin, Quigg's. Velzy's.
it is a slow and deliberate job of the rebuilds, but a good job is a job worth doing
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The bottom 2 photos are the same board, a Kivlin brought to me by Rorce Cansler and a Paul Naude.
The poor survivor had suffered abuse by many hands over the years, it had been badly repaired using auto body Bondo, Plaster of Paris and surfboard foam.
Termites had done a fair amount of damage also, I had bass wood straight edges I screwed into the wood and ran my plunge router with a template collar to remove rotted and damaged balsa down to a 3/8" slot that I would hand fit 25 year old balsa as a new skin, I repeated this on subsequent planks until I had removed and replaced nearly all the wood..
it sits center place in Sun Diego board sports in Carlsbad.
a previous Kivlin rebuild went for 37,000$
Those boards were nasty Jim. You breathed live back into them and carried them on in history.
That which can be assorted without evidence was read in an illegal magazine.
yes
getting a woodie....
pure porn...
anybody got some old growth
figured balsa contacts
to encourage this
impressionable laddie?
if not just buy a length from[frost\?
and use the leffovas to make a hand or body
tool....ambrose...
what grand fortune
to be involved in
this Noble quest.
CONGRADULATIONS...
ambrose M. curry III
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