Wooden Surfboard from a Fly Screen Door.

I made another wooden surfboard last year and a super short slideshow. Nothing like my previous labour of love.
Here's the link to that video, • I Made a Wooden Surfboard
I had no intention of making another and repeatedly said as much to my darling wife. Anyhow, I was cleaning up in the shed and this old cedar flyscreen door had been sitting there for about 10 years. I looked at it and thought, well, no good for a long board, but… I had access to a laser-cutter through work, so I found myself back at the computer playing with ideas around a super high volume short board. I used a combination of BoardCAD, Slicer and Illustrator to design, slice and then add the 200 elliptical cut-outs, puzzle joins and so on to the 4mm marine ply frame. It ended up being 5’10 x 23” x 3” and who knows how voluminous?! Long board up front and short board down the back. I wanted full-on single to double concaves so the whole build technique was almost the reverse to the last build. I added a pair of strips at a time to allow for the shape. No fancy epoxy glues this time with all the logistics of mixing and clean up. A flexy polyurethane glue in a calking gun to grip the frame and Tight Bond on the edges of the cedar. Once it was all wrapped in epoxy, I figure it's belt-and-braces anyway. No ‘cove and bead’ for the rail build - just 6X10mm strips stacked like a staircase. Heaps of steaming with the iron and a wet tea towel to get those bends. No nose or tail blocks to save on weight. Bolsa bits to give me something to mount the fins, leggie and breather plugs into. 2 breathers so that I can flush air through from time to time with a fish tank pump to make sure it stays dry inside. No handmade plugs and breathers just plastic and Gore-Tex. Again, I learnt heaps. I made it for sloppy rubbish conditions, and I have surfed it so much more than I ever expected to. It’s an absolute ripper; picks up waves of course with all that under body volume and is crazy quick down the line with the hard-edged single into double concaves but also powers around through turns with such a refined tail. A slightly wider than normal stance makes all the difference. I’ll tell you something for nothing - full of imperfections but it definitely surfs better than it would have as that old fly screen door!!
By the bye, as I was building it, I was also repairing flood damage to the room downstairs - new footings, drainage, studs, plaster, paint, new floating floor… It got pretty crowded in there from time to time!

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