Hollow wooden surfboard

Clemsonsurf after Sandy post some updates with your glassing? I made a few longboard design sketches thanks to this thread. It'll be a nice winter project.

 

Resin Research is the stuff most hws builders use. i've glassed with polyester with success.

 

Just a heads up for future wood board builds we carry wood kits from a california builder. The guys at Grain sell great kits too and a nice bunch of guys.

Clemsonsurf, how do you like riding your wood build?

~Brian
www.greenlightsurfsupply.com
Shape Your Surfing Experience

 

SOLD! Does it come with a free orange prison jumpsuit and white astronaut helmet?

 

Out of curiousity, had you ridden any wooden boards before?. Ive never ridden anything but poly and EPS boards, and except for twice at Grain Surfboards demos in some fun sized waves The extra weight was definately noticable, jumping off a poly board right onto same sized Grain board.

About the nose rocker - when you trim it out does its feel like its pushing some water under your front foot?

 

Yea... by the looks of it, you're describing exactly what one might expect regarding that nose rocker. You can actually get away with some added nose rocker if you keep it up near the tip... some "flip" is ok, and it works well on those short, flat, wide shapes.

Still a beauty, though... nice work.

 

Interesting. It does seem to have a good bit of continuous nose rocker in the front 18-24 inches.
As wide as the tail is, and looking like its pretty flat rockered back there, i would think shifting your weight to your back foot thats planted right over those fins and that big flat rear end would produce a nice burst of speed once your line is set.

Nice job by the way.

 

Just read through this whole thread again and it's inspiring me to get going on my build. I've been sitting on some paulonia and red cedar all winter and I think it's time to get started. Nice work ClemsonSurf!

 

Making a light HWS is a real challenge. I've been using 1/8" plywood but it needs to be reinforced inside and outside. At the time of my first board, the unavailability of e-glass made me glass the board with chopped strand mat, which is a PITA to work with and you need yo sand a lot to end with a decent surface. It was heavy but indestructible. After that, I glassed 2 board with the proper fiberglass and they didn't came as light as I supposed. Think the weight is in the inner structure and on rails (solid plywood - Jensen style). Venting is always a problem, but now you can buy goretex vents which simplify things a lot. For the last 2 boards I filled them with canned insulation foam, and no vent at all. Next time I'll do the same, with no inner reinforcing, a lighter structure (with cross members every 6", maybe 4" to support the deck)and hollow rails, to see if this helps. If I can get 1 lb per foot of lenght, I'll be satisfied.

 

That was good. Definitely...

 

Looks pretty good. What should the final weight be?

 

Looks great! When will it be finished?

 

Is there a touch of hip in the outline? And what is the tail width? On really wide tails, I like to go in from the rail a bit more than "normal" tails. I also like no more than 1 1/4" between the leading edge of the rears, and the trailing edge of the fronts, with the rears set about 1/8" more in from the rail than the fronts. This is for single foiled fins.

What are the fin layout numbers you're thinking about?

 

Is this all plywood construction?

Look'n good!