I decided to stop looking at the templated blank sitting in the corner of the garage (just waiting to get hit by something) and to start shaping. I used the cordless Makita and just held the vacuum hose on the debris ejection port. I got the bottom work done and took just a little off the top. After that, I broke out the rough surform and tried to fair in the blank.
I got it to about 80% today. The next big step will be to get the rails tweaked and the nose entry cut in. This board is going to be a hair under 4'9" and hopefully thicker than 3.75" - that means thickness retention and a lot of work to round off the rails.
I saw a homemade tool that Kazuma uses to get consistency in his rails - I bought some sheet metal and I'm going to try and replicate it this week.
And here's my stopping point today - I'll call it 80% shaped.
I put the track reinforcement block in the space where it will go - fits just right. I'm going to go steeper on the rail walls at the tail - sort of FFB Rubix like (just much simpler)
You can see on the left side of this picture that I have to work on the nose some more.
So today I worked on this for 2 hours. That brings the cumulative time to 3 hours (templating was less than an hour).
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