My Surfboard

by **scuba steve** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 5:26 pm

I finally finished my yellow single fin for my as level at school:

This is just prior to polishing, now it's all shiny.

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by **CHarvey** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 5:46 pm

Sweet looking board dude. Let us know how it rides.

by **Sillysausage** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 5:51 pm

looks pretty class.

by **isaluteyou** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 6:08 pm

if you dont get an "A" for that then they dont know flesh - good job mate

by **kitesurfer** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 7:14 pm

Good work steve. Looking forward to hearing how a batwing single surfs.
Keep us posted.

KS

by **justloafing** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 8:15 pm

kitesurfer wrote:Good work steve. Looking forward to hearing how a batwing single surfs.
Keep us posted.

KS

Yeah me too kitesurfer. Nice looking board.

by **essex sucks** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 8:56 pm

nice board there i am also wanting too know how it goes with the bat tail and single fin

by **scuba steve** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 9:46 pm

Yeah it seemed like a weird concept that I have'nt seen done yet, and I wanted to make a wooden fin so I took the risk. (Also to get the marks it needs to be unique and apply to a specific target market).
All that's left to do is to test and take pictures so hopefully I'll get down to Devon during Easter and see how it goes.

by **Otter** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 3:33 am

There'd probably be a great market for wood fins, especially all nice and polished up with lots of grain. You thinking about going into production? I may take one off our hands if you do... Zat glassed on or did you use a box system?

by **justloafing** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 11:26 am

Can we get a better pic of the fin? It just may work with how long it is. I will be interested to see how fast it turns.

by **scuba steve** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 5:18 pm

Yeah the fin's glassed on; I'll be able to get some more pics up in the next few days, good to hear there's some interest in the concept though.

This is it before it was glassed on, just to show the grain:

by **Dr Rev** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 5:30 pm

Sweet board mate , well done !!! :thumbs:

by **tomcat360** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 12:33 am

Very very nice! How about some dimensions? Concaves?

by **justloafing** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 10:58 am

Cool fin. That sucker just may work. If it does you did your homework well mate.

by **scuba steve** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 1:02 pm

tomcat360 wrote:Very very nice! How about some dimensions? Concaves?

Yup it's 6'4x19"x2 1/4"
The concave is single on the entry and a gradual double concave at the tail to either side of the batail, hopefully making use of the central pivot point and linking in with the single fin.
That was the theory anyway but I tended to make it up as I went along, it was great having a teacher who knows nothing about surfboards.

by **Choked out Surfer** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 11:11 pm

Nice work,you got some talent.

by **tomcat360** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 3:06 am

Could you give us a picture of the rocker/foil and a picture straight on and a picture of the foil of the fin?

That would be sweet!

by **scuba steve** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 4:50 pm

^ Yeah I'll try but cos its a school project and it's always in school it gives me limited time to get pictures.

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