New fish

[Davros]

Thanks guys, hmmm might just get some floor sanding grade rough paper on the sanding disk, whack on the drill and start ploughing. Wish me luck.

[diggerdickson]

beerfan, took car to mechanic today as fan belt needed replacing, 630 bucks later and dont think I will be getting anything for my hobby in quite a while

[Beerfan]

Davros, dont use a drill with sanding attachment, it will give you lumps mate, honestly. I would jsut use the sureform, and just put up with a thicker than normal board. Get the bottom flat ( 35mm x 75mm pine in a length that is wider than your board with sandpaper glued to the bottom, preferably one long sheet ), then use the surform to rough out rails ( mark them out, even if only roughly ), then blend with shaping screen/guaze ( shapersaustralia/ surfblanks ). Then fine sand with a soft piece of foam with 180 grit. Then ya ready to glass. That's very rough, but for your first will give you an idea of the process.



Digger, you shouldnt've opted for the gold plated fan belt!!!. 630 for a fan belt? Does it run through the cylinder head? hahah. Bloody cars!!

[Davros]

Thanks Beerfan appreciate

[Quangers]

beerfan, took car to mechanic today as fan belt needed replacing, 630 bucks later and dont think I will be getting anything for my hobby in quite a while

Sure it wasn't a timing belt?

[diggerdickson]

ended up being fan belt, timing belt, airconditioning belt, and a few other things

[diggerdickson]

hey beerfan, just cut in my first deep 6 channel on a broken board to give it a go and pratice, it went good, just need a few more broken boards to pratice on before I hack into a new blank. A six channel will soon be mine, give me a year and I will have one made

[Trev]

ended up being fan belt, timing belt, airconditioning belt, and a few other things

Holy duckshit Batman!
But, yeah. If it's got 100,000 klms up (or 90,000 for the Hyundais), that's about right.
The timing belt's where all the labour is. It's sensible to replace the others because they come off to get at the timing belt.

[Davros]

Davros, dont use a drill with sanding attachment, it will give you lumps mate, honestly. I would jsut use the sureform, and just put up with a thicker than normal board. Get the bottom flat ( 35mm x 75mm pine in a length that is wider than your board with sandpaper glued to the bottom, preferably one long sheet ), then use the surform to rough out rails ( mark them out, even if only roughly ), then blend with shaping screen/guaze ( shapersaustralia/ surfblanks ). Then fine sand with a soft piece of foam with 180 grit. Then ya ready to glass. That's very rough, but for your first will give you an idea of the process.



Digger, you shouldnt've opted for the gold plated fan belt!!!. 630 for a fan belt? Does it run through the cylinder head? hahah. Bloody cars!!

Thanks for the tips..I actually followed them and during the process of completing the board i realise the mistakes i would have made. I shaped the board with a saw, sureform, 3 grades of sandpaper, an upside down ironing board for shaping racks and a long neck with sand paper around it to finish my nose and a hired router from Kennards. I used a good blank Surfblanks Red (super white and strong). Manged to get a single to double concave into a it and routed the fins without to much issue and f*ck me its not a bad looking. Had a mate of mate of a bloke in the local surfshop glass it (4oz x 2 on top 1 x 4 oz bottom). And even got a few nice board who made it in the car park and I was more embarrassed than proud (I dont think they were being sacrastic and super whiteness with sweet 7.5 fin out the back looks ok, so glad they didnt look to close). Its a 6'4 x 21 x 2 3/4 thump tail, 2+1 with a Flex fin in back for 1-4 ft waves (70's Eggy based design but pulled the nose in a bit).Best of all it goes really well because I expected a dog and a half. Very rewarding.

[diggerdickson]

Im so stoked for you davros, cant wait to see some pics mate. So what plans have you got for your next build mate

[Davros]

Mate I reckon shaping the board was easier than loading up a photo. Will have a crack.

Thinking fat quad next for end spring/summer...

[Beerfan]

Awesome davros!, make sure you put pics up too.

[Davros]

Finished on Rug

[diggerdickson]

nice mate, very very nice

[Beerfan]

Hell yeah its nice!!

[Davros]

Thanks guys - saw a planer at Bunnings for around 100 and will be buying next time to save on time, shoulders, hand cramps, chipped stringers, swearing, crying, praying etc.....

Forgot to mention I included a slight hip in the tail around side bites and is bit of a fun combo with the area of the thump tail and the flex fin. Could have spent more time thinning the nose but thats for next time.

Thanks again for the advice guys, saved me a lot of heart ache I reckon. Whack up your new boards when you get em sorted and any additional tips for those learning to accumulate dust.