Found this whilst doing some research for my next board build

Nice board bags

One of the locals just made his own 6'0 version, he rips on it!

Wicked little edit, so intrigued by these boards. Saw 2 Black Apaches in the surf shop yesterday....beautiful.

I'm not a fan of them. Yet I did not ride one in nice waves. If I was loaded I would buy one
Why are you going to make one ted?

Why? For a few reasons

1. I have always wanted to have a play on one and there is bloke around these parts who has made a few and he absolutely rips on them. He is always having so much fun on them when its small n windy. I really do not want to pay a lot of money for one of these boards.

2. I picked up a suitable blank for $40 - so all up it will not cost me much and I can make it to the specs I want.

3. The chick is away over Easter back in NZ so it will be a board making bonanza in my shed

4. Plus the other major driving factor is that I am really just enjoying making boards Chrispy. I would like to make a couple more that are suited to more low consequence waves before I start on boards at the other end of the spectrum

5. And lets not forget that most of the time conditions are head high and under and the MS is perfectly suited to those conditions.

But yeah its mainly just about wanting to build something that I can have fun on and something that I can build - the design principles behind them are fairly straight forward for an amateur like myself - which is important

Looking forward to it Ted!

Do you need a template Ted?

Thanks Dr Funk - I am hoping to grab one from a bloke here locally. If not I will come knocking on yr door! Thanks.

What are you building at the moment? Did you do a Vanguard type board in the end?

i've got a sweet template too Ted, call out if you need it

Thanks CRF - your boards does look sweet!!! How does it go? You happy with it?

hey are you finish that one - whip me up a 7'6 666 version

i'm like you, would like to try but not at full price

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Ted the Kiwi said..

Found this whilst doing some research for my next board build

Ted that was one of the best clips ever posted top find champ!

I am tossing up between a mini simmons...a vanguard knock off and one of these bad boys canvassurfboards.com

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Ted the Kiwi said..

Thanks Dr Funk - I am hoping to grab one from a bloke here locally. If not I will come knocking on yr door! Thanks.

What are you building at the moment? Did you do a Vanguard type board in the end?

I've got a 7'4 gun blank that I'm hoping to turn into a 7'2 single fin pintail..........just need to find the time. Vanguard next I think.