Hi everyone,
I thought i could get this started much earlier but… Well SBC is not over yet so here is my littme contribution.
The plan was to make a simple and possibly “funny” board for small to medium waves -> I made a roundish template 5’10 * 20’ 1/2" * 2’ 5/8", quite thick and wide board, in order to support me ^^.
Finally got a free WE so…
Welcome in my tool-storage shaping-shack:
After some planning, I obtained something I liked:
Time for some surform and 40 grit sanding screen to get evrything leveled:
My bottom “design” is flat from nose to mid, a double concave starting in the last third of the board with max depth around the fins and finishing into V at the tail.
I hope it’ll give the board a bit more manoeuvrability in medium waves and I wasn’t sure a flat to V bottom would be usefull on a small board like this one.
You can give me some advices here or critics cause bottom contour is not easy to get right… or even to understand (cf. spiral-V thread).
Rail are 50-50 @ first third, the a bit down in the mid part to boxy @ tail. I think it’s quite classic even if my realization is not as nice as it was upposed to be in my head.
Fine sanding is 180 sanding screen.
For glassing, I wanted a light green bottom and clear top.
I use art dry pigments as base color that I mix with a small amount of resin to create a “resin-based” paste I can directly use in my lam resin.
To avoid lumps as much as possible, i filter the pigment + resin using very thin nylon fabric before putting it in a jar to storage.
The yellow one is done, green is prep’d for filtration.
One pigments are ready, it’s time to swich the room into glassing-mode:
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glassing stands
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top lights
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plastic sheet on the floor
Tape on top for the cutlap… Layer of 6 oz and it’s a go:
I made 6 oz bot and 2* 4 oz top. The results is not that bad for a 2nd one. I get a bit more confident on the glassing part but it’s definitly the most difficult !
I made the hotcoat sunday’s afternoon. Probably sanding tonight …
See you soon for updates.
Z.
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