Paulownia Mini - Simmons 5'6" Slideshow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK2b3JUauNY&feature=youtu.be

Building a hollow unglassed wooden fish surfboard using paulownia with ...

Moods of Wollumbin Slideshow

http://vimeo.com/81480700

Hollow Wooden Egg Slideshow

If the video doesn't work - here's the link  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLyqZPFwZgE&feature=youtu.be

 

This is a hollow wooden egg  6' 10" x 20 3/4". I used a bit of western red cedar , a bit of huon pine & good ol' paulownia . Glassed it with kinetix epoxy & gave it a poly finish coat & polish. Weight came in at 6.1 kgs. Its got a 12" finbox as well as side plugs.

 

 

Raw Fish - 5' 9" x 21"

How goes it cyber surfers? This is a story about a fish I'm building ( my first). After watching the movie "One California Day" & seeing Joe Curran & Joel Tudor ripping on their fishes , I thought it might be time to give one a try - so why not build my own out of wood. After doing a bit of research on the net I came up with a design - pretty similar to Jim Banks's planshapes - but with a mccoy dome or convex bottom - most people go with concaves or flat bottoms - but I know the dome works on all the boards I've made - so cant see why it wont work on a fish. It was origionally going to be just a twinnie with keels - but quads get a big wrap - so I'm going to use 4 fin plugs & try it as a twinnie & a quaddie - why not experiment?

The timber used for skins & ribs is 6 mm Paulownia. I like to go with a 5mm plywood spine for a bit of extra strength. Ribs are 6 inches apart.  The board is going to be finished with tung & orange oil. Glue used Titebond 111

DIMENSIONS :
5 ft 9 inch X 21 inch X 2 3/4 inch


       Heres some pix

                          Chine strips secured with sewing pins inserted using multi grips

                                           Frame clamped to rocker table during assembly

                      Frame secured to a second rocker table with bottom facing up - ready
                                                      for bottom skins to be glued on

     

                                          First bottom strip 145 mm wide X 6mm thick

This is the tail end - that block of wood attached to the spine is only temporarily in place to help hold the skin to the spine when gluing - It will be cut off when I jigsaw the fish tail outline

A Couple of Earlier Boards

Heres a few links to some earlier boards which I did build threads for on Tree to Sea.

They explain in more detail the building methods I've tried.

http://www.grainsurf.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=2831    This is my first attempt - A chambered  one

http://www.grainsurf.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=3585    This is my next one - a HWS mini - nugget 

2 New Woodies

Heres a few pix of my latest boards which I've been working on in tandem for the last few months.
Both are the same design & dimensions modelled on McCoy's designs.

Both boards are  FOR SALE . If your interested send me an email to discuss price .

STATS
6ft 4 inch x 20 inch  x 3 inch
17inch tail
13 1/2 inch nose
Wide point - 3 inches behind halfway
Bottom - 4mm convex
Fins -  one board has glassed on thruster setup
Other board has 10 inch fin box & side fin plugs

TIMBERS USED
Skins -  5mm paulownia,  silky oak , red cedar , huon pine
Ribs -6mm paulownia
Spine - 5mm marine ply
Parquet mandalas - huon, silky, black wattle, camphour, paulownia & red cedar
Fins - Tasmanian Sassafras  - Huon pine , red cedar - epoxy coated
Finish- kinetix epoxy lam & fill coat - polyester finish coat -wet sanded to 2500 grit , buff & polish
Inside of board -  sealed with varnish