Mitch and I have been working on this board for a while now. Here’s a cool little video of him hotcoating the bottom.

I’ve done a bunch today with my stealth fishy: last lamination on board and fins. glassed on fins and hot coat. All that’s left is the leash plug and some minor fillers but only after I test it tomorrow morning. Mitch was sanding his Vdub during the whole process.

Did some tail work today along with making some fins that are tad bit too small. Might make this a quad.

The SCO logo is finally within the fin. I added the final layers and started foiling the fin. I added the metal bits and jammed it into my hull just to see how it looks. I think I’ll do some more foiling tomorrow to make it look neater.

This will be the first legit wetsuit I’ve ever made and I’m ridiculously chuffed!

Where to put the embroidered patch…

Tom said I ought to put another sleeve on my  wetsuit just to really see how it fits.

I just need to to make the back of the knees and lumbar fit and the suit is sorted.

So I’m finally going to do a legit post. I found a rowing machine, Phil broke the seat off, we turned it into a rail. Sadly we haven’t seshuaned it yet since the weather has been quite unfriendly to skaters.

Here are the materials: Rowing exercise machine, wood, and more wood.

A different angle.

Sco Man got a bit boardslid.

Joe squeezing some contact adhesive.

Rail is set.

Sprayed for style points.

I think red and light blue and black were all that we had.

Added a few staches.

Rear end.

The other side.

I made another deck today. This time I used poplar wood. It was pretty thick so I planed it down a couple of times. Not the flexiest of boards but it’s made for cruising. This is probably my cleanest board yet.

The default four stripes that rep SCO! Took out the dark blue and replaced it with a light brown.

Not sure how I’m going to grip the top yet.

Since I stole Matt’s griptape yesterday when I was making my skateboard deck, he made me build him a deck. I’m super stoked with the outline and the graphic on the bottom.

Sorry for the blue drips.

Angular tail.

Awesome colour palette.

Matt seems to be pretty stoked with his new board.

Turning.

Turning.

Slide.

Matt show his skills.

My board was just chilling in the grass while all this happened.

This cardboard box is where most of the deck construction happened.

Since Mitch started his deck today I moved over to this station.

I skinned the blank, shaped the board and glassed the bottom. Pretty stoked with the shape, not with the glass job but it’s all good.

Bottom.

Tail.

Tail Viewed From Top.

Blended.

Blended Bottom.

Glassing Time.

The start of failure. Taken By Caroline.

Going low. Taken By Caroline.

Curing but not really since you need some UV.

Welcome to Mitch’s very clean and organized shaping bay.

Today I finally started to work on the foam. I’m pretty happy with the outline of the board. It’s too late to plane off the crust since it’s 9pm and the electric planer is so loud. I’ll have a go tomorrow.

The blank was 7’9 so I took off 9 inches from the nose and tail combined.

Mitch hiding under my blank.

Laptop set up so I can listen to some shaping muzac.

Flipping foam.

Mowing foam.

The final outline.

The tail.

The hands on construction of any surfboard usually starts with making a template. This one is mine.  7 feet long, 23 inches wide, it’s gonna be a sick board.

Board number 3.

Here’s more pics of our construction:

These days everybody is riding or making an Alaia so Mitch and I are gonna give it a go! Got the pine from Home Depot, made the templates on Illustrator, let the fun begin!

Tomorrow we’ll cut the boards out after our sesh, then I’m off to Vegas for the weekend.