White Falcon

...finished with the roof and glassed some surf shops boards
Also, busy with more mid term exams that will be in a couple of weeks
so very busy, and with not too much time to resize pictures, post, etc
among real others activities (like Surfing, music, motorcycling, reading, chess, designing, etc) that I barely find time to go with them

-a happy customer ordered this board as a back up board for previous one that I posted before
"only" change is that is a hair more thicker between the stringer and the rails (to use in heavy Winter conditions)
bottom is flat to V between side fins fading out to rear of back fin
dome deck; 60/40s thin rails tucked edged all the way to hard on tail; very thin in the last 3" of nose and tail
fins are rigid ones heavily canted with 1/4 toe in, back fin is bigger,
sports White Falcon guitar and Cadillac Limo style 1/8 and 3 /16 Gold sparkle and White pinlines
(the pictures dont clearly show the sparkle)
10% lighter density PU foam; Aerialite 2 x 4 oz fiberglass onto the deck and 1 in the bottom
speed finish coat

roof

... I have been got problems with the glassing room roof
so I decided to stop and change it
Because of this, there will be a few days without post

I have boards done, but they arent custom orders (they re for surf shops) so dont belong to this blog

thanks

rails

...here few steps of how to do the top part of the rails (+++)
in the first and second pictures you can see one side with a rail "band" and the other kind of 90º yet
several passes with the planer to do one band; then repeating the process in the other side of the board; after that you make a second band besides the first, in both sides, then blend the beveled edges
3 picture shows shallow passes to almost finish the rails with the planer
4 picture shows a closer view. click in the picture to see in detail
then blend everything out with sandpaper and/or sandscreen

+++normally I do the bottom part of the rails first (most good shapers do in that way too)
but sometimes I prefer to start in this way

taping for color

...showing a bit of masking before starting to paint

LSD fin

big boy

big thruster shortboard for a big buy who wanted volume in a "contemporary" shape
flat deck, flat bottom; heavy rockered; big fins (35º rake, 4 3/8 base, 4 1/2 height, rounded big tip, 1/4 base thickness, rigids); 60/40s rounded rails to boxies on tail

other step

fins sanding after glass ons them
well, actually you dont sand the fins; you should sand the Hot coat that is the outer "layer" that you d put and smooth the edges
also round a bit the flat internal face near the edges to prevent or reduce drag, cavitation (working side by side with the rail--talking about design--), etc

lijado de quillas, luego de colocadas
en realidad, uno no lija las quillas; lo que se lija es la última capa puesta de resina, que se llama Hot coat ó filler coat (capa de relleno que se utiliza para no debilitar la o las telas de fibra previamente laminadas-al igual que con el resto de la tabla- cuando se lija para alisar la superficie) y sacar las imperfecciones (alguna hebra de fibra que hubiera quedado) de los bordes
también, redondear un poco los bordes de la cara interna para reducir o prevenir rozamiento, cavitación (trabajando en conjunto con los bordes de la tabla), burbujas