You might not want what the machines are producing.

Will show a finished pic next week.

Just spent some time with a local shaper today talking about boards in general. We then got onto old boards, as he had a few round the factory. I love my old single fin Cordingley, although I've never ridden it. I'm looking into the possibility of having it copied using todays materials, as I don't want to damage this board. It was made between 74-77 a Greg Lawrenson beauty and it's older than me.

Oliver the boy's are going to kill you posting pic's of a SUP on there site,good luck buddy!

mac

PS,nice board!

doggie said...

I was down in Yallingup on the weekend and caught the Yalls Malls comp & they had a SUP comp on, thrilling then went and surfed awsome Lefties with a mate, best ever!! Not on a sup!!!
Its ok 62 we are all friends here just dont get in the way OLi

LOL...

COngrats on the 100th post mate

KEARNSY said...

doggie said...

I was down in Yallingup on the weekend and caught the Yalls Malls comp & they had a SUP comp on, thrilling then went and surfed awsome Lefties with a mate, best ever!! Not on a sup!!!
Its ok 62 we are all friends here just dont get in the way OLi

LOL...

COngrats on the 100th post mate

Thanks Kearnsy, its taken a lot of my employers time lol

doggie said...

cRAZY Canuk said...

62mac said...

Oliver the boy's are going to kill you posting pic's of a SUP on there site,good luck buddy!

mac

PS,nice board!

Nah we wont, maim maybe but never kill.

Thinking of building one in feb when I'm out of the sling and we've moved to a place where i'll have a garage.

cRaZy if you get a house with a decent garage your gonna have to build your self a shaping bay and get serious mate

Nah, just a glassing room. I can get shortboards machine cut for $50, sooo much easier, cleaner and faster (takes 'em 20 min to cut down a blank, and me 20 min of hand sanding). I know it's not traditional but it cuts 1 or 2 days off the build, plus I don't have the patience to hand shape a board or ruining a blank .

doggie said...
Is that how you did your last board? & your kite board the carbon fiber one, is that a stringerless EPS core? Thinkin of makin one sorta the same but for surf, what are your thoughts?

There both done that way (the kiteboard was a free blank from a shaper as the EPS didn't expand right), the kiteboard is stringerless EPS with 400gms of carbon on each side (100 @ 0°,90°,45°,-45°) you wouldn't need that much cloth for a standard surfboard though. The surfboard is blue foam with a standard ply stringer and 400gms on the top and 200 on the bottom.

If you've seen any of the fibre flex boards there stringerless EPS with carbon unis down the rail. You can also get EPS with parabolic stringers (that's for the next one) there just 1/8" ply 1.5-2 inches in from the rail (you can even get the rail foam in a different color, uber cool).

Can't really give you a good idea about it because I haven't had the chance to ride the kiteboard yet (that and I'm a mad scientist and my work isn't gospel). I'd think that if you ran the same in carbon as you would glass it might be a bit stiff but that could make up for not having the stringer. Pco might have some better thoughts on it if you ask him nicely.

DL said...

cRAZY Canuk said...
Pco might have some better thoughts on it if you ask him nicely.

As might Dave from Treehouse. As far as I am aware, he glues up his own blanks from blue EPS.

The problem you might have is getting a slab of EPS thick enough to get the rocker you need for a board. Because it is extruded, it comes in a flat slab without the built in rocker you get in a blown blank.

You can use the shapers stuff ( www.shapers.com.au , they computer shape for you as well if you want) but it's less expensive to glue up your own. Found a place to buy blocks a while ago but I'm not sure if I kept the link, just need to run a hot wire through'em to cut the rocker in.

Just confirmed my order & paid deposit for a Treehouse single fin 6,3 x 19 1/2 x 2 1/2 fin box with red rails & black pin. I cant wait!!!

Keep forgeting that you are armless atm, full carbon fiber mite be too stiff for surf.
Carbon ontop with glass on the bottom?

porka said...

doggie said...

Just confirmed my order & paid deposit for a Treehouse single fin 6,3 x 19 1/2 x 2 1/2 fin box with red rails & black pin. I cant wait!!!

Sweet. Make sure you put up a pic when it's done.
I surfed with Dave in MR and he was on one of his singles. Looked fun. I got a photo from the water. I'll try and find it...

Cheers porka, did Daves single have green rails? Yea will do not till early Feb tho, god I cant wait!!

Treehouse article in Frothers mag:

frothers.com.au/images/frothersmag/Issue3/frothersmag_issue3_sml.pdf

Doggie,

Yeah I think it had green rails. Pics are still being extracted from old-school 35mm film...

Here are a couple of picks of the finished boards and proud owner.



This is a mal with artwork to match a tattoo.

A copy of a Brazilian board that was falling apart under the owners feet.

Oh and a 10'3" SUP.

Cheers for the pick Porka, I didnt end up going through with it as i lost my job just b4 xmas and had to save the money unfortunatly. But the news is good Ive just scored a new job with good money so it may be on the cards soon with a bit of luck!!