Offcuts Board 4

Continuing on with the marathon chambered build.. up to about 6 months now I suppose.

I've never built a board like this and I must say it was a refreshing change to be shaping freely without fear of shaping into fresh air - a different experience altogether from hollow or foam-core construction.

Ive used sacrificial MDF spacers in this build. These will be replaced by a 3mm cedar stringer glued to the face of each chambered section.

The transverse grain makes these sections kinda fragile, especially those tapered ends so all movements are in slo-mo.

This cedar is also a bit fragile so I laminated with epoxy and some 4oz fabric..

..and traced my sections with a bit of overhang.

Then I cut them out and epoxied each one to its mate.

All the bits

Bit by bit

One each arvo.

Nearly finished.

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WOOD SURFBOARD DAY 2014

Sorry I, once again, forgot to take many photos of this year's Woodie Day and most of them I accidently used a weird filter thingo.

Sergi checks out one of the many high quality boards on the grass at The Alley.

I would have loved to get around to meet more of these builders but time got away.

Two professional looking SUPs which I believe were brought all the way down from Mackay.

Two reeeally nice boards, including a clinker channel bottom by Paul from POG surfboards on the Sunny Coast. Andrew Wells of Grown Surfboards runs a wooden eye over them.

Kim Staples should look pretty chuffed. This photo really doesn't do the finish justice. A really classic pro looking board. 

Another beautiful board by a builder I never got to say gday to.

Foam-core Hot-Curl by Charl B (Dorff boards) who's always got a new idea itching away in his head.

A lot of recycled timber in this one.

This board was built by my mate AV who loves to surf anything different. This was his first wooden board and was built from scratch with pencil and rule..no computer aid at all.

All hand made fins too.

and a nice inlaid logo.

Scotty Dickson from the Sunny Coast with a beautiful chambered board. Super clean lines are a dead giveaway to his pro cabinet making background.

Another pro looking job by a mystery builder.

And a classic by Gold Coast board builder and Wooden Surfboard day organiser Grant Newby, aka Big Fish.

A good day was had by all.

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Paulownia Offcuts Board 3

Finally got a couple of spare hours to continue shaping this Paulownia fish which I have designed to use up all my short pieces which would normally go in the skip bin.

I mark some bands around the rails to give me a guide.

I dont strictly adhere to them. They just let me know if things are getting out of control. I don't mind too much if my life gets out of control, but like to keep my rails in order.

 New planer knives are a must when carving across the grain like this

 and being mindful of the "angle of attack" when traversing those acute little ends.

Take the second band off and the deckroll starts to develop.

It's at about this point where all technicality and intricate calculation goes out the window for me and I start to..........wing it!

Fortunately, 35 years of coaxing wood to do things it doesn't necessarily want to do has made the belt sander, planer and other tools feel almost like the palm of my hand is shaping the material away.

 I don't go too nuts shaping the nose as I still have to pull this blank apart to chamber it out and I don't want to have very fine ends to deal with. I'll shape the nose last thing.

 I keep taking "bands" off the deck until I'm satisfied with the deckroll.

I just use my eye and a straightedge to keep everything symmetrical.

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Paulownia offcuts board 2

I'm really enjoying this build but am being disciplined and am doing it as an after hours project so it's a bit of a drawn-out story.

So I draw the outline

Then I'll slice it into 45mm thingamees.

'Saw didn't quite make the depth which kinda made things easier.

I flipped the blank and cut from the other side with a jigsaw which, when given its head, just followed the cut.

Then draw the profile on each thingamee. 

Don't forget to number the thingamees.

Den scwoo tugevva wiv scwoos.

Mdf spacers will be replaced with some nice cedar stwingers between thingamees.

Bwank.

Cut outline

All ready for shaping.

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