Wooden mini progress and other surfboards!

 Coming along on this. Didn't get much done this past week except gluing in the two side planks again.

 I also glued in extra small strips along the top side of the spine and ribs to provide more gluing surface, but not much weight.

 Here I am fitting in the center strip and dry-fitting it first. I got this glued in right after this picture.

And in other news, last night my brother and I glassed the bottom of his board (right), and Neal and I glassed his board today (left). Mike is super pumped, Neal is super pumped, and I am super pumped. Always fun to glass boards, especialy when they come out nice and neat. For Mike's board, we mixed up the blue resin and black resin, then spread out each blue line, then came back, and filled in the gaps with the black resin. It came out much cleaner than expected! For Neal's board, he had this fabric he liked, so we layed that down as a strip across the front third area, as seen. It came out awesome too! pumped!

Gloomy, windy, rainy day

and I'm psyched!

So I doubled up the top part of each rib by adding on a sliver of plywood that runs along the top of each rib. This allows for more gluing surface for the top planks, and doesn't add any weight really. Above is a picture of this, but it's kinda hard to see the extra sliver - look for the shadow jump. I read this off Tree2Sea-not my idea.

I've gotten the top three middle planks/skins glued on now! I was able to splice a board with good grain pattern/colors and then put them mirrored on each side of the middle board. Psyched on how that came out. I've seen a few other companies who mill their own wood do this mirror effect too, so again, not my idea.


View of the third plank being glued/clamped in place. I use clamps when i can, but have to tie down the clamping boards due to lack of enough clamps.

From the other side

The first plank (center) went on fine, but the second plank I was having some issues, notably with this plastic wrap i was using as tie downs since I don't have enough clamps. I notched out each clamp down board (seen above) so that the tie down stays in place. But the notches kinda backfired, as they provided an edge to help the plastic rip when being stressed and pulled really tight! I had my face right down next to it once when one plastic wrap broke and the board sprung up and got me in the chin. I stopped using the plastic wrap right after that and a couple of cuss words and am now using some rope/twine that has yet to break (fingers crossed)