Whipped up a new 9"3" x 23x3 rssmalasmoo pig carbon and 4oz lay up got a 10" messiah for Christmas to dip in it Froth
OBCT
Awesome! Some of our greatest achievements in surfboard design are a result of imagination! I hope this is truly an awesome riding board or you, there would be nothing better than the feeling of creating a board that works ( And is symmetrical )
I tried shaping a board a couple of times years ago, and each time i tried to ride mine they were dog's LOL!! But they were really ugly, dodgy and in no way symmetrical. What you have there looks great OB!
Well bugger me sideways with a stick, it works
First the bad news, the reason I built it is because I wanted to see if board thickness is a substitute for board length because I want to surf sub 10ft, and still get early entry. A mate recently bought a Walden mega magic at 4" thick and he's happy with it but I didn't want to spend over a $1000 to find out for myself.
After riding this one, I'm convinced length will give a better result in terms of wave catching ability.
I went to a break I never go to where I knew no one I know would see me, it was a very fast and short beachy with a sand bank ready to pounce if you did not bail in time. Just on the paddle out I thought I'd made a big mistake, it felt like I was teetering on top, I doubted I could even pop up safely. I finally managed to get up the guts to take off on a good sized left, I know it was a good size because a couple of SB hooted me as I was going across the face. No radical bottom turns, just an angled take off, straight ride and ease out over the lip well before things got interesting. I survived.
Paddled a bit further north looking for a right and when I finally got one, I got a face to work on, did not shuffle backwards, just extended my right foot, pushed hard, lent back and waited for the disaster. Nothing happened other than a big sweeping backhand, recovered and went across the face with an adequate degree of speed.
It does seem as if it moves water under it very quickly considering it's 24 wide and 4 thick.
Soon after that I got out and drove up to a point break with a tiny 1 foot wave, once again, it proved to be not great, but at least acceptable at catching waves and when given anything remotely like a face, it wanted to shed water quickly and turn sharply.
As expected, it treated any visit to the nose with distain and promptly sank into the abyss .
I may put my so-called all rounder in the rack and keep this one and the hot log in the car for a while to see it I can get anything else out of it.
Na, but you might wanna get checked out if a post about surfboards in a surfing forum makes you think of dick?
Forgive me I've just ordered a new board..
Think my sunset board FB square tail with splayed stringers and add wheels,yes my man Brett is making me a skateboard.
Interesting finish radman, I was thinking of doing something similar, but only to hide my poor glassing.
looks like you did the filler coat with a black pigment, sanded it back, and then put on another filler coat on with blue pigment Before sanding back again. Where did the white come from?
New boardzzzzz hopefully this is the correct thread I wouldn't want to hi-jack and all
Heading down to Byron to pick up one on Friday or Saturday the other is a week away.
I'd post my artwork up here but some would just laugh and I couldn't blame them for
my grade one sketch
McHenry there you go mate I can pick up your McCoy this week or it can wait until the
following.
JB, mite get to meet you Friday if your unlucky