Lots of activity in the garage on this last weekend of September. I redid the template on the 4'8" wing board blank - wider hips now and I went ahead and committed by cutting the template out. Next step for this is skinning bottom and top, trimming down the nose volume, then dialing in the shape.
But before I do anymore work on that board, I need to work on fixing Ken's wing board. What I had thought was an air bubble under the deck pad, was actually a full on delamination. And there are two of them. I prepared one for filling already - will need to lift the deck pad by the handle and do a big fill there as well.
And to top that off, Tim dinged the nose of his Amundson custom today and already dropped that off for fixing.
Knowing I am going to experiment on the Go Foils, I wanted to get some bottom mount rear stabilizers made. I'm re-templating the one Dennis had previously asked for (but never picked up) to be another 15". I got the holes drilled in to the two on the right - and I took off a bunch of bulk on the middle on. Going to perform the bulk removal/taper down to the tips operation on a few of the top mount stabilizers as well.
I helped Marlon dial in his new longboard template.
Here is the re-foiled rear stabilizer (not quite finished yet - I took this picture mid-process). It took about an hour to get the bulk off and get the surface sanded down to 220.
And here's Marlon cutting out his new longboard from the raw blank. He opted to use the manual saw for the bulk removal.
And then used the surform to get the edges smoothed out and even.
I might have to reconfigure the garage to handle the volume of boards going in and out....
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