My beloved Sweet Potato is almost past the point of no return so I need a replacement. After doing lots of research I decided that a Baked Potato would be a worthy alternative. Having the luxury of having the SP close at hand I have been able to attempt a replica build but with a few of the Baked Potato enhancements - like the pulled in nose and the diamond tail. Today I finally had some time to put the concaves in and finish her shape. I copied the SP with a single into a double - nice and deep though the tail. I was terrified and took it slow but am stoked with the result. Thanks for your advice argkee - I mainly used the surform then the sanding block though as I am such a pussy Next time I may have a crack with the planner to save some time now that I am a little more comfortable about the process. I need to sort the nose out as well - on reflection its a little pointy! Will try and find some time this week to start the glassing.

Here are a couple of shots - in the first one you can see the double concave through the tail of the SP. So that is what I was trying to replicate.

**** thread. Another ****ing kiwi bragging.

nice work ted. thats a radical concave.


i see you kept the centre v up level with the rails- any reason to differ from the original or did it just turn out that way.


it's different to see a double go all the way through the tail, but then that board is pretty different too

Thanks LL - the real reason I left it up level was because I was terrified of cutting so much out already that I did not want to farrrk something up and end up even deeper again. The board is already a bit thinner than I really wanted due to a few errors on my part so I did not really want to take any more unnecessary risk I also did not think it would make that much difference to a person of my ability. I have done heaps of reading on the benefits of the deep single into the double and did not think that it would make that much difference. I am sure that there will be enough issues with it anyway

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chrispy said..

**** thread. Another ****ing kiwi bragging.

I could have called it the Bledisloe thread

Geez wonderful effort big Rhino boy I love it

Sweet Ted! Well done.

Awesome work Talented Ted

just looked at the photos again ted.




i'm sorry to have to tell you this























































































but your board is out of level

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laceys lane said..

i'm sorry to have to tell you this

but your board is out of level

If you look even closer you will see that I have not put the level on both rails correctly.......so you can rest easy and sleep well tonight Thanks for your concern though

Looks awesome mate, look forward to seeing it when its glassed

Looks good Ted. Do you have t h e beer garden board? If so how does it go?

Thanks McHenry - Have not yet received the Beer garden board - hoping to soon

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MickPC said..


Looks awesome mate, look forward to seeing it when its glassed

same

Nice work bro...how did you mark out where to put your concaves and hwo deep to make them etc?

Nice one, Love the channels and the tail! what are you thinking for glassing? tint or spray?

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Tux said..

Nice work bro...how did you mark out where to put your concaves and hwo deep to make them etc?

Thanks Tux - I just used my eye - I had the SP on the worm farm next to my board racks and I just kept comparing them until they looked about right By running the level down the board you can see exactly where the single starts and then where it moves into a double. Once I got comfortable with how much foam was coming off with the sanding block and surform I just estimated how many strokes I needed to make then took another look, then another and so on.

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Dr Funk said..

Nice one, Love the channels and the tail! what are you thinking for glassing? tint or spray?

Thanks......its going to be a resin swirl with a sanded finish. Colours are looking like a dark blue and white. Have watched loads of youtubes on them in recent times. The GF thinks she is going to be doing it as she has more right side brain than me! She seems to think that glassing is easy based on those vid's........yeah right

Great work ted!

What blank did you use for this?

swirls are cool, Just remember that the first colour that hits the foam is the one that stays and dont over work it or you will get mud! I did a black on blue tint on the tail of the board I finished on the weekend.

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Ted the Kiwi said..

Dr Funk said..

Nice one, Love the channels and the tail! what are you thinking for glassing? tint or spray?

Thanks......its going to be a resin swirl with a sanded finish. Colours are looking like a dark blue and white. Have watched loads of youtubes on them in recent times. The GF thinks she is going to be doing it as she has more right side brain than me! She seems to think that glassing is easy based on those vid's........yeah right

hey ted try a cheap 4" roller. works a treat. wet most of the board out then roll. same as the rails. wet them out then roll them under on the angle. you know what i mean.


the roller get the glass down really flat and the resin consistant.


cheers

ps dale even had me doing it on $3000 plus canoe boards

Great topic Ted, keep the photos coming.

And got around to watching that movie....
How good is it... great story..

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Sham1984 said..

Great work ted!

What blank did you use for this?

Thanks - this one was a Dion Fish Green - which is the Supa Supa Light one - I hope I don't destroy it - its so light!!! Will put some heavier glass on it I think to compensate. This one is so light that the other one I went for a more denser product and now that one feels to heavy - sometimes you just can not win!

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Dr Funk said..

swirls are cool, Just remember that the first colour that hits the foam is the one that stays and dont over work it or you will get mud! I did a black on blue tint on the tail of the board I finished on the weekend.

Nice looking board - anymore details / pics on it that you can share please

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laceys lane said..

hey ted try a cheap 4" roller. works a treat. wet most of the board out then roll. same as the rails. wet them out then roll them under on the angle. you know what i mean.


the roller get the glass down really flat and the resin consistant.


cheers

ps dale even had me doing it on $3000 plus canoe boards

Thanks for sharing the secrets of such an experienced campaigner LL! Did you do that way with tints and swirls as well ? or just single colours? Maybe you can pop down and give me a hand

I have seen the roller in action - it does seem like a sensible solution. I do like using the squeegee though - not sure why - it just always looked fun whilst watching others!

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SP said..

Great topic Ted, keep the photos coming.

And got around to watching that movie....
How good is it... great story..

Thanks SP - that sure is one amazing story. Some fun times back in those days thats for sure.

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Ted the Kiwi said..

laceys lane said..

hey ted try a cheap 4" roller. works a treat. wet most of the board out then roll. same as the rails. wet them out then roll them under on the angle. you know what i mean.


the roller get the glass down really flat and the resin consistant.


cheers

ps dale even had me doing it on $3000 plus canoe boards

Thanks for sharing the secrets of such an experienced campaigner LL! Did you do that way with tints and swirls as well ? or just single colours? Maybe you can pop down and give me a hand

I have seen the roller in action - it does seem like a sensible solution. I do like using the squeegee though - not sure why - it just always looked fun whilst watching others!

oh, forgot bout the tinting. probably best to stick with squeegee


if i got paid while i watched i would be rich


ps are you going to tape off for the tinting

I have been very busy with work lately so have not had a chance to glass the new Baked Potato but I managed to squeeze in some time yesterday arvo and this evening to get another one ready for action. This one is a 6'4" * 21.5 * 2 7/8 with a pretty full shaped nose - hardly any lift through the tail and a little at the front. Its not as fat as she sounds as I have taken a lot of foam off the shoulder and just left some in the middle for paddling nice and easy. I have gone for a vee bottom on this one. Its pretty much based of an Al Merrick Pod - a board that has served me well for a long time but is now in a state of dis-repair. I took a template of the outline off it and changed the tail as I am sick of dinging swallows. I had intended to go for a full round tail but the rounded square came out good so I just stopped sanding! I ordered a 1960's style blank for this build and I must say whilst its a truck load stronger than the new super light ones its also very heavy relatively speaking. I shall probably not order one of those style blanks again. Because its such a dense blank though I will glass her 4*4*4 and do my best to squeeze every bit of excess resin from her. I knew as soon as I picked it up it was too heavy but when you have ordered them you just need to suck it up I think the planner and myself are starting to get better acquainted after this last one but I am still a bit frightened of it Away the next 10 days with work so no chance to glass them for at least a few weeks sadly - should give me time to work on some art work. The garage is a disgrace at the moment - my fault. Will clean that shortly I promise

geez ted, your turning out all sorts of boards which isn't easy. most shapers have a run of the same type of board so they get really good at that shape.


so i'm impressed.


ted are they pre shaped or are you doing the whole lot from blank. which leads me to templates????? yours or borrowed

The mal came out of a machine and then I reshaped the nose, tail and underside. With the shortboards I am buying the blanks and starting from scratch. I shaped this one in the factory of a very experienced fella who generously gave me several pointers along the way. Helped reduce the errors!! I felt bad about disturbing him at times and he would pop his head in and see what I was doing and tell me to stop being a fool and ask !! You can see this with me cutting out the rails - the saw should have followed the pencil line - but I thought it would be better to shape down to it. Wrong. Would have saved me lots of time if I had asked more often for help he reckons !!! I have been making my templates off boards that I own and love but are now almost past there use by date. I just make them out of a heavy duty but thin cardboard that the missus brings me home from her work. The plan is replace the quiver with a bunch of boards I have made and start from there.

I will be glassing them myself at home in the garage - ahhhhhhh

Looks good Kevin!