Another Setback

Over Christmas I have damaged my back, ive been laid up since the 25th and have not been able to shape at all.  The frustrating part of this is all I have to do for gareths board now is to screen the rails, final sand, spray paint white, then all done.  After that its glassing time, I hope one day soon to get back to it, sorry gareth.

too tired

Its so hard to find time to finish the little tasks on this blank, im just to tired to try to attack it tonight, I know what i have to do, Ive gone done tonight again and looked at the blank just to check it out and imagine my next step, visualize my task and visualize myself doing it.  Now its time for bed.

next few days

tommorow night I really hope to get the rails completed on gareths board, cant stop thinking about them and the fin lay up, cant wait till I can find some time to get this done, getting harder to find the time.

first rail band on gareths board

Today I completed the first rail band on my close mates board, it came up a treat, same angle all the way along, no bumps, no dips, just beautiful, I could have got a slightly better line at the top of the deck for the rail band but overall cant be happier, the next rail band will be completed tommorow and if I get time will do bottom rail band and then roll the bands over and screen next weekend, then  organize glass, fin plugs, paint.  Hey mate she is getting there and looking the goods at the moment.

On the 18th I couldnt sleep till I completed the 2nd rail band, so waited till everyone in bed and asleep, slipped down stairs and cut in the second rail band.  Now all that needs doing is the bottom rail band then roll the top rail band down, then blend her all in and its done, yeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwww, I love shaping gareth, such a buzz

More on Gareths board

Checked out the blank last night and noticed a few bumps under the better lighting on the deck, need to smooth that out.  I think this board I will keep now, test out the concave on her and the rails.  A bit of r&d work on her and make gareth a better one straight away.  Its taking a long time to make this one but the next will be done very quickly.  Gareth your board will be done soon, it will come out better if I road test this one and then do some slight adjustments to her to get you a real craker mate.

the fup fairy

Love this little logo, Im going to use it between the fins on certian boards for fun

Just a little play in the bay

Today I went down to my bay, rechecked the sides of the blank, ran a square over them to make sure they were square, moved some foam on the deck and played with the deck line, generally fussed around with it.  Very enjoyable and relaxing, how lucky am I to have this hobby just waiting for me when I get the chance.

I put a very slight single concave from just passed the middle of the board to the deepest point in front of the fins leading out to flat at around the back fin of a thruster.  To do this I set the depth to 1ml and run the planer down the board, changing the depth as I went then moving it back to zero to fade it out.  Its a very shallow concave but will do the trick with it.

More work needed on the deck yet and rails need to be cut in yet, just going slowly and carefully.

Rest Time

Its been a while since I have done anything on gareths boards now, Ive mainly been going down every night before bed and just staring at it and thinking on the next step.  I have a plan of action now and hopefully this weekend if I find time I will finish the blank and look to shape the rails next weekend.

It will certainly be interesting to see how she comes out, the outline is so nice, the blank is awesome to work on and I think I will have a flat bottom this time.  still undecided on this. but it just looks so right the rocker that I sorta dont want to touch the bottom with concaves.

Two weeks ago I set up my air guns properly and look forward to starting to use them again, I want to muck around with some different colour paints as well.

Hopefully this coming monday I will have more to tell