Shaping the Board

Skinned it with the Bosch 3365 and seemed to work. Although you can't really tell by the mess, the Bosch 3365 had a little bag attachment for the shavings and seemed to keep it a little more contained in my work area.

The single blade on the planer seemed to take chunks out of the board while skinning. Not sure if this is typical, but I am assuming not. Having only one blade instead of two made pretty rough cuts on the blank. But once I got pass the hard skin, it was as smooth as a babies butt.

Glad I went with the Bosch 3365. It was cheap and seems to do the job. Made a few modifications to it... I epoxied the foot's 45 degree grooves, removed the set down rest contraption and filed the notches on the knob to make the depth cuts smoother to turn.

The Template Cut-Out

Now, time to clean the outline.


Trabajo Trabajo!!

The Tools

These are some of the tools I am using...

I hand made the shaping block with some foam glued to it, a shaping paddle, caliper, a poormans shaping square made out of left over plexi glass and a shaping pad made out of an Oracle knee pad. And the usual tools I purchased from the store.

Don't know why Oracle was giving out knee pads for a promotional pieces!?!? I guess us techie nerds are always down on their knees fixing people's computers.

Oh yah, not shown here is the planer I purchased. I actually went with the cheapo Bosch 3365 3-1/4" Planer with only one blade. Actually got a deal from Home Depot because the box was all beat up. Hopefully it works!

Drawing the Template

This is the custom template I just made using a pegboard without the holes for my Displacement Hull project. I decided to make the nose a little more rounded, kinda like a longboard. The template turned out to be a little wide so I had to bring it in a little when outlining. I think it will work alright though.



So after tracing my template, I decided to draw out a diamond tail to see what that would look like instead of the pin tail. Can't decide!!!!

Anyway, I ultimately went with the diamond tail.

Getting My Blank

Pleased to say that I finally got my blank from the Factory (aka Bashams). It's a US Blanks 7-3A. Chuck over at Bashams was very helpful and set aside this one for me. Sweeeeet.

BoardSide Displacement Hull Surfboard Project

For a couple of years now, I have been wanting to shape/build my own surfboard. So finally decided to dedicate some time and get started on the project. Lately I have been riding a 7' displacement hull and am absolutely amazed by how it paddles, handles and rides. Soooo, although I don't think it is the best board to build as the first one, I decided that this is what I wanted to go with. I am probably setting myself up for failure. Hee Hee.