Building the 6'6" Gang Buster. Roy Stuarts Parallel Profile construction method.

Here in this thread my goal is to share my wood working with anyone who cares to look. I am open to advice and suggestions from anyone with a solid understanding of surfboard shaping. I will share the entire build process as best as I can. I hope my work can give others some ideas on building a surfboard from wood.

 

Thats our friend Daniel Tosh holding the baby horse..
Im not using any veneer on this board its all solid wood construction. Made with clear vertical grain western red cedar. (the otherwise useless scraps from my furniture shop).. My goal with the concave is to first practice a laminating technique to see how easily I can do it and secondly I believe that the concave will work nicely with a harder rail shape such as an 80/20 down rail. it will be a continuous concave through the whole board length. Also only a slight concave maybe 1/8th inch deep, really depends how the lamination goes. any thoughts on rail shape with concave tho? like I said in the opening post Id love to hear some thoughts from people. I am merely a novice surfboard builder and know very little, I just want to make myself a quiver. THanks

 

in the picture you can see my rocker jig. thats what I will be laminating the 4 layers on. 4 layers being the deck first, then the two internal panels followed by the bottom. the rocker jig basically shows the shape of the rocker that the board will have after all the layers are laminated together.

 

The deck and the first frame and block panel are laminated. The concave appears to have gone in nicely after the first round of molding.

 

Pasting a heavy layer of west system epoxy. I mixed the epoxy with micro fibers to thicken and also some wood flour I extracted from the drum sander vacum collector.

 

I gave this one a definitive name because I intend to replicate it and I want something that is unique but still identifiable to be mine. Roy gives his boards cool names which I think adds to the unique and rare element. Any piece of art needs a name or distinctive title I guess..

Im most certainly not opposed to the fish bone framing method of surfboards, thats what I started with and they have proven to be a great way of making boards, like Grain surfboard for example, I love those things and they're proven to rip! I am experimenting with the torsion box out of curiosity I can't say for sure if I think its better. I like the torsion box flexibility tho, thats for sure. The torsion box has its limits perhaps in that the nose and tail can't taper in thickness but Im not sure if that really matters.. so far I don't think it does for the type of surfer I am.

the rails appear thick in the image but you need to remember that I will be trimming out the plan shape, thus eliminating a good portion of the rail blocking seen in the image. I expect the board after resin coating to weigh around 30 lbs.. I hope no more. I will post its weight after I get to that point of the build. Im excited to find out.
I will be using a 4" stainless steel boat fitting for the vent, similar to what Roy puts in his boards.

 

3/4" or concave in the middle tapering out towards the tail and nose.

 

Haha right. If someone wanted to take if off my hands id feel good about 1,500 considering the time and cost of materials I have into it so far. But I'm making these for myself so dollar value isn't important.