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Beanpole wrote:I wear disposable gloves.......then always manage to grab something after I take them off.....and use acetone to get it off.

Thtat's a bad idea, the acetone will make you absorb the epoxy.

Yeah, to be pedantic though midlength is a length, range, so semi guns, mini mals, and hulls etc etc are all subsets of 'midlength' if in the size range which I presume is 7 to 9 feet?

Mid lengths are only mini-mals if they are shaped like mals, and many are not.

After 5 years of touring and being ridden it snapped at Ocean Beach San Fransisco, we also lost a fin at Pipeline, which was replaced. Not bad for an unglassed wooden board which is only 2.25 inches thick and 13 feet long. Anyway the board has been rebuilt by Brad Tucker in California. In fact we ar...

The first couple of waves, it's been a very long time but the board feels good. More waves needed.

https://youtu.be/0K6XYMS3Efo

Rail feels good, width is no issue, and tail width is normal.

Here's one, the 66-838 asymmetrical ten footer with incut and displacement tail: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-g6cif7-Bahk/VWFgsrFhEBI/AAAAAAAAU3w/UE9Cxyb8TrE/s600/66-836-asymmetrical-surfboard.jpg http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9SEz9FeleWA/VWFgsknE9eI/AAAAAAAAU3s/bnZ0cD6nO7E/s600/66-838-gun-surfboard-by-Roy...

Here's another one, same length width and thickness ( 8 by 25 by 1.75 ) as the blue board but this time with the wide point forward: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-UWJwJIi1KT8/VWFeO2WvSeI/AAAAAAAAU3Q/OwsSTov8iI8/s600/Best-surfboard.jpg http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-10CuKs--bWA/VWFeO23YToI/AAAAAAAAU3U/bfUpSrQ...

Not for you by the sound of it.

Generally surfboard design analysis is acceptable if:

a) It makes no sense, thereby lessening the need to think.
b) Is well publicised by respected media outlets.
c) Has 'patent pending' on the same page.
d) Includes dinky diagrams.
e )Doesn't rock anyone's boat.

The vast majority of surfers worldwide are perfectly happy on fat in the middle boards. They must be all wrong. An illogical deduction ( yes I realise that it's a sarcastic comment) and FYI boards have tended towards a more parallel (or less tapered ) profile in recent years. It's just a way of pro...

Hi Steve, the thickness distribution/profile

kayu wrote:Here ya go Roy....it's wood....it has a PP....plenty of nose lift ...it's pre '94.........and it has a rubber dodgem car bolted to the deck....very similar to a Future Salmon....

... except that it isn't a surfboard.

you have been using this tactic for many years roy why you do not just post some pics say a few words, but no its all about everyone is wrong roy roy roy roy? You are not very observant Huie, I mentioned parallel profile on this thread merely as an expression of agreement with a post about lowering...

Lots of tiny fins does make some sense, i'm not going there though, not this week anyway.

for farcks sake roy give it a break vol reduction was on many shapers minds in the sixty's ( when you were in short pants i would guess) with so much else going on it was an ongoing process, but i will tell you this an 1.75 thick with fat ends would be laughed at then, ''as it is today'' volume pla...

Here are the first rides on the board... dropping 3 to 6 feet in length for the first time in about 15 years I wasn't sure if I could go back down in length but part of the brain starts to recall can't wait to get some more waves on it and dial in... catch is this one's off to Bali with someone else...

steve shearer wrote:

Roy_Stewart wrote:Here's one:

How big is that one Roy? Board looks sweet as.

Thanks Steve, she's an 8 footer, 44 litres at 1.75" thick, low rocker, fast and smooth.

A nose like this just works better than a thin point, I'm not going to tell you why but George Greenough knows one of the reasons so go and ask him.