Stubby questions

thanks, I'm just kinda winging the color as I go, hopefully end up with something that looks cheeful, picked the logo for a little retro flavor.  One more layer of 4 oz. clear on the deck to come, I'll add the lam then.  Then a little touch of red and white when I do the pinlines.  Love color, just can't seem to do a plain vanilla surfboard.

Thanks to all the helpful feedback I have the quad fins layed out where I'm pretty comfortable with it, won't know for sure until I get it out in the water, even then there is stuff that can be tweaked.

As far as the center fin, I'm kinda unsure.  If I go with a F.U. box, I can't get far enough back to match your suggestion for 5th fin.  I don't have a thruster center box in black to match the others, so I have to order one (they are not as deep and so I could get the 5th fin back there with a thruster box), or else put the F.U. box in and go single / sidebites rather than thruster, and 5th fin further up if I even try it.  I completely missed the thruster revolution, so its all new to me.  But I like quads too so far.  Problem is my two quad boards are a bit too much foam for me now that momma has me on a diet, haha!  Don't know if I should sell them or keep em until I get older, and fat again.  As we age we don't know how many sessions we got left in us, so just take each one as a blessing, eh?

Congrats on the new rider, I guess we'll be seeing pics / video of him too soon?  Love the stuff you post up, junior sure can crank that board around.

BTW, regarding work.  I sent you a text message awhile back, never got a response.  Did you get it?  Sorry to hear you're working so much, but gotta pay them bills.  Hope you get some play time soon!  My work is out of town, lots of travel, so it eats up my time without paying much, but its steady for now and in this economy I'm glad to have it, not complaining!  Well, maybe just a little :-)

more pics - deck glassed with final 4 oz.

For a good week or more, most all of the last two pages, its just been the two of us, so there is clearly not any general interest in discussing the stubby build.  So I moved it over to the errors and bugs club, then I don't have to feel bad every time I keep bumping it up with new pics or comments :-)

Anyway, here are the fin boxes set in resin - I normally mask around them, didn't think of it this time until after I got started, oh well.  I don't worry about the extra cant from my V bottom, it just is what it is.

I'm holding off for now on the center box, think I'll order a center plug to match, so I can go thruster or thang.  I could put an F.U. box in, but I just don't see this being a single with the wide tail.  I have other singles that will sometimes spin out on late takeoffs cuz the fin releases when the wave gets sucky.  Probably eliminate the problem with sidebites, but then the quad fins don't really seem properly placed for single sidebites.  Anyway, maybe I'll change my mind and add the single F.U. box, you did say that was your suggestion.  I figure as long as I don't do anything, my options are still open, LOL.

mattwho wrote:

...We all know I can't ride a 9 ft'r these days so...

If ever there was a legitimate reason to SUP this is it!  Seriously.

cbg wrote:

too big of a board to really garner much of my input, but i'm just a long-time lurker anyway.  still, i wanted to communicate that you two aren't the only ones looking.  

once the thread went to bugs and errors and below the radar, it was safe to comment.  isn't it ironic that B&E is a respite from the madness in general discussion?  it's like you had to go to jail in order to meet some decent folks.

nice looking work, as always.

-cbg

Thanks cbg, nice to hear from you!  I'm kinda glad to hear you say that, about size, cuz I keep thinking this thing is too small for me to ride, then I hear comments like yours, and I'm reminded its not really small after all, just might take a little adjustment for me :-)  Ah to be young and nimble again!  Sometimes when I pop up I feel totally spastic, just another of the joys of aging my friend.

Anyway, I do kinda like the atmosphere down here in E&B, more laid back I think.  I used to post more detailed pictures of my build process, but lately I find myself thinking I don't want to have to explain why I do it this way, or defend myself, so I just skip over to the process completed pics, haha.  The pros have a certain mindset, but a self-taught backyarder has another.

Leash plug in, both sides hotcoated.  I used a cheater coat on the hotcoat, no fisheye problems like I sometimes get.  "Reinforced hotcoat" per Cooper's video entry into master craftsman competition.

My plan now is to sand the poop out of it from 60 grit to 220 wet, then pinline it, then 220 once more, and final coat.

Resin pinlines done.  Few problems due to: A) cheap tape (my fault) and B) rushing things (my fault again). So the red line not so crisp. Anyway, done now, good enough!

 Ready for final coat, hopefully will come out clean and not require much sanding / polishing.