Surfboards Archive

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    Mini gun

    This is a polyurethane core mini gun just under 6’8″. It is the first board that we made from a comercial polyurethane blank. What a pleasure that was to work…

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    XPS Fun Board

    This board is a fun shape made from XPS foam. It is a home made blank made from pink insulation foam. I painted it white with epoxy appliance paint to…

  • This was the first foam board that we completed. Its core is EPS foam and it is glassed with three layers of 4oz on top and two on bottom. Epoxy...

    EPS Foam Thruster

    This was the first foam board that we completed. Its core is EPS foam and it is glassed with three layers of 4oz on top and two on bottom. Epoxy…

  • This was an experimental build to test out a variation of the parallel profile method using a type of wood that is cheap and plentiful. The experiment was a success...

    Short board PP

    This was an experimental build to test out a variation of the parallel profile method using a type of wood that is cheap and plentiful. The experiment was a success…

  • Summer’s finally here and I’m desperate to get this bad boy in the water! I didn’t stop long enough to get any new pics up but the repair is going...

    Mini Pintail – Re-shaping Rails

    Summer’s finally here and I’m desperate to get this bad boy in the water! I didn’t stop long enough to get any new pics up but the repair is going…

  • Well it’s been a long winter and now its time to start wrapping up all of those projects I’ve been neglecting. So back to work on this one and DISASTER!!!...

    Mini Pintail – Damage Control!!

    Well it’s been a long winter and now its time to start wrapping up all of those projects I’ve been neglecting. So back to work on this one and DISASTER!!!…

  • Short board PP – Done!

    Once the epoxy set up on the fins, I sanded down the excess and then laid a sheet of fiberglass over each one for reinforcement. I won’t use fiberglass on…

  • I just realized that I never created a page for this board. It’s a variation of a Hawaiian Paipo more commonly know in these parts as a body board or...

    Big Jon’s Paipo

    I just realized that I never created a page for this board. It’s a variation of a Hawaiian Paipo more commonly know in these parts as a body board or…

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    Short board PP – Mounting fins

    Today I mounted the fins on this board. I set the toe in to two inches ahead of the tip and cut  the mounting grooves with my dremmel tool. I set about…

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    Mini Pintail – Back to work!

    It’s been a while since I’ve done any work on this board. Today I started to get things moving again. I started off by spending some time setting up the…

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    Bonus Board – Fins

    I’ve been busy making fins for all of the boards that I have in progress and this is one of them. The concept of this board has been “scrap wood…

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    Short board PP – Fins

    Started working on some fins. I’m using the same lath wood that I used on the rest of this board to make fins. I glued the slats together with thickened…