MOTE Timber inlays

As with the first wooden board I shaped, I am again inlaying some decking board timber from the 1970s Wilderness Surfboard Factory from the film Morning of the Earth. This adds a special little history point of interest to the board as well as being a bit of a design feature on the deck.

Beginning of the Rails

Started glueing the rails today. I am trying a different technique for this board. Instead of building the rails out from a rail band I am instead filling in between the ribs and will then sand back to form the rails. The end result will be slightly different to my first board, but hopefully as effective. I guess it's all a bit of trail and error at this stage. Nothing ventured, nothing gained right?

Paulownia skins ready

After glueing the sticks of timber together to get enough width. I then cut out the skin shape using the template that we got from a guy in Italy of all places!!

The build is slightly different this time as I am not yet sure how I am going to do the rail bands.

But I am now at least getting a clearer picture of how the board is going to look.

Not sure that I won't tweak the nose and tail shapes a bit, but you can see where we're heading.

Cheers
Duncs

mini simmons beginnings

Early days for the new project. This time the finished product will be a mini simmons. Ribs and stinger have been cut and now glued. I am not using a rocker table but this means I need to be very careful that things remain square and no twisting happens along the stringer.