My new project

[diggerdickson]

completed flames on one side, turned out well but its a bit messy and not perfect will post pitures soon and hope I can get some advice from people on how to correct it, Iv e got a idea but will share that once pitures are up

[diggerdickson]

Ive been thinking, maybe there is a paint pen I can use on the flames before glassing, and just freehand with black around the flames to clean up, will go to a specialist paint shop to ask, still have to get stuff to spray over the pint before I glass, here are the pitures of the flames that has been resized by dan for me

[diggerdickson]

Im now thinking of my next build even though Im waiting to organise to glass the first two boards and test out, waiting on fin for my sons board and hopefully will be done for marks board testing day, its a wait and see.

Finished the flames on the other side after seeking some advice and will post pitures soon.

[tiger]

Diggs, I always use tape edge to do flames rather than cut them out with a blade. 3 and 6mm 233 tape is good for this. No bleed, nice smooth flowing curves.

Just fix it up at the end with a black permanent marker or posca on the filler. But this requires a steady hand, although you can lightly sand it off if you make an error. You'll just create more problems trying to fix it on the foam.

[diggerdickson]

Diggs, I always use tape edge to do flames rather than cut them out with a blade. 3 and 6mm 233 tape is good for this. No bleed, nice smooth flowing curves.

Just fix it up at the end with a black permanent marker or posca on the filler. But this requires a steady hand, although you can lightly sand it off if you make an error. You'll just create more problems trying to fix it on the foam.

Thanks tiger, think I will leave it, It will stay as a permant reminder how much I hate flames

[diggerdickson]

job done, you will notice one side is different from the other as I stuffed the template and had to free draw the other side, not exact but close enough for me and my lad. I dont think I will ever do flames again Not until I make another board for my little lad

[Cpt.Caveman]

Digger, that is smokin!

[pridmore]

Hey Quangers, whats been happening ?

[Quangers]

Hey Quangers, whats been happening ?

Not much mate, enjoying too much holiday spirit and not surfing enough...surf's been shiitte
Been keepin a close eye on your Simmons and finless thread though. You gonna send one of those down this way as a traveller?
How have you been? You still in Yamba?

[pridmore]

yeah, I'll be sending one down to you for sure, it'll most likely be a dim-SIM mate, better not hijack the thread, and GO SURFING ...haha...

[Quangers]

Yeah fair enough, Digger's doing a fcuking great job - bloody perfectionist and it shows in the results.

[diggerdickson]

Yeah fair enough, Digger's doing a fcuking great job - bloody perfectionist and it shows in the results.

cheers quangers, its so addictive making boards and with the help Im getting I dont feel like Im just floating in a river without a paddle. I just wish I started 10 years ago. Mark you can hijack the thread as much as you want mate, your the one who inspired me to start shaping anyway

[diggerdickson]

mmmmm, Ive learnt heaps, a stack load, no more spraying agian in this sort of humidity ever again, and I do mean ever. No more using that blue tape crap ever again, note to self, DO NOT SPRAY WITHOUT THE PROPER TAPE YOU IDIOT, ABSOLUTE IDIOT, NEVER AGAIN. i THINK i SAID EVER AGAIN DIDNT I.

must get better stuff than garbage bags to tape up boards with so I dont get overspray where I dont want it.

I want to get some tubing and make portable glassing stands as I am going to glass in future and I must get ready Time to get the shed ready, stuff the mower, it can stay outside in the rain

Time to save for a compressor, I have heaps of ideas for sprays but I cant do them with cheap spray cans from a auto shop. MMMMM, damn it. Money Money Money, its all so damn much but so much fun.

I have taken such a large learning curve its not funny. Concaves aint easy, no matter what people say, to get them smooth, no bumps. I did a single on tims board and today checked it out agian and smoothed it out some more, trying to blend it out better towards the rails and also no bumps in the board, not easy, need good eyes plus a good feel of the board if you know what I mean. Dont know if I got a good feel for it till we test ride the thing. I hope I got it right, its like waiting to find out if Ive won the lottery and its keeping me awake at night in anticipation at times.

I once went to bible college and spent 5 years there, you know, one thing I relised that after 5 years of study I knew nothing and had so much to learn. Ive done only 3 boards, havent glassed any yet, havent tested any, learnt stack loads and I relise that no matter when I started, wether 20 years ago or now I will never know enough and on this trip I will continue learning till I no longer can pick up a planner, its the best college in the world. YEEEEEEE HAAAAAAAAAAA.

[Beerfan]

Glassing it soon digger??

[diggerdickson]

not in this weather, everything flooded, looking at doing something with glassing stands this weekend, will fit that in somewhere between surfs. After that holidays with family then will organize with mate some stuff to do the glassing. So looks like early feb now or late january, but will be glassing as soon as we are able to with the weather

[diggerdickson]

Saw surfdnbeers board today, it looks the goods mate, great spray too, you should post some pics and ride reports mate, you were surfing it at noosa that day and it looked like it was going really well. Mark gave you some good feedback as well hey.

[pridmore]

glassed yet ? come on mate, you said I could try the first one you did.......

[diggerdickson]

glassed yet ? come on mate, you said I could try the first one you did.......

I have purchased 10 litre resin, got the stuff to make it uv, got some catalyst as well, just gotta get stands now and glass and some other stuff to get properly set up, should be 2 weeks at most before I can start glassing my sons board. Tim has already got his and dont know what is happening there, if he wants he can get some resin off me.

I have plans for two more boards and will be also ordering two blanks very soon. One for a school friend of mine and one to donate to my kids school so they can raffle it off. I have a compressor and some air guns and Im nearly ready to start making as many as i can afford, having so much fun but getting set up initally is a little bit diffucult. So many dreams of what I want to do and make, just takes time and patience.