Surfing Waves

evening all, quite interested in the longer term to make a chambered wooden board. either a longboard, or something along the lines of the Fourth "chilli bean".

anyone done it before and have any wisdom before i end up in way over my head?

with regards shaping, does it make all that much difference? i seen a lot of vids on youtube of people making alaia style boards that look no more than a dinner tray some of them. or is it not so important just with the small ones but more so with anything big.....

anyway enough of my

cheers for any help or advise

Paging Roy Stewart,paging Roy Stewart, you are wanted in the foyer

Seriously have look around the site put Roy Stewart into the search feature and you will see a master wooden chambered board maker at work

some wicked stuff there. wish i could hope to craft something as good as that!

has anyone ridden one of these? i am thinking of using the dimensions but making it thicker. would it work?

http://store.magicseaweed.com/product.php?productId=58596

Cheers Jaffa and Oca, Oca for the board shape you are after chambering or the fishbone method would be best.Chambering isn't what I do it's a board shaped from a block which is then hollowed or drilled out, fishbone is a plank on frame method suitable for tapered profile boards. I don't use either. Lots of help is available at Tree to sea's forum.

Roy Stewart wrote:Cheers Jaffa and Oca, Oca for the board shape you are after chambering or the fishbone method would be best.Chambering isn't what I do it's a board shaped from a block which is then hollowed or drilled out, fishbone is a plank on frame method suitable for tapered profile boards. I don't use either. Lots of help is available at Tree to sea's forum.

Sorry Roy even if I misrepresented your building technique, I was sure your advice would be sage!
Oh and as I said in the PM I'm sad to hear of Earle's passing.

thanks roy, i'll go check it out and see what i come up with

jaffa1949 wrote:

Roy Stewart wrote:Cheers Jaffa and Oca, Oca for the board shape you are after chambering or the fishbone method would be best.Chambering isn't what I do it's a board shaped from a block which is then hollowed or drilled out, fishbone is a plank on frame method suitable for tapered profile boards. I don't use either. Lots of help is available at Tree to sea's forum.

Sorry Roy even if I misrepresented your building technique, I was sure your advice would be sage!
Oh and as I said in the PM I'm sad to hear of Earle's passing.

Yes what a great guy, apparently he was diabetic.

Of course shortboard fishes etc can be done using my parallel profile method, plenty have been made and liked but they won't be identical to tapered profile boards.

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OcaToro wrote:thanks roy, i'll go check it out and see what i come up with

If you'd like to make a board using my parallel profile method I'll be happy to help.

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what do you mean by parallel profile roy?