Shaping a Surfboard - Take 2

Brian from Greenlight is an awesome furking dude and basically offered me a redo on the whole process for free because my last board was A) a piece of unridable shit (no duh) and B) foiled way too hard to even put fin boxes in so unusable at that size. Happy to say that it's now being used for a kids board/mini-simmons. Which rules not to have the whole thing go to waste.

So here's my 2nd take on shaping:

We first started by fixing all the crappy warbles in the template and reshaping the nose into something a little less needly. Here's the new outline. We took about an inch off the top so now it's closer to a 6'3" instead of a 6'4"




Here's the first chop. Man this brown trout is way easier to get right the first time with a jigsaw and a planer instead of a handsaw and a rasp.



Notice where I fucked up by putting the saw at an angle and took a chunk out. Fortunately that little digger went away with cutting the rail bands...



Which obviously takes vast amount of concentration...



But before knocking out the rail bands we cut and cleaned up the swallow


Here she is with rails cut before rounding. I went with a medium rail based off of a board I liked once.



Next up, rounding it off



And here's the final product!



And to celebrate, we did cocaine