It's been interesting Ted, I'm finding a nose rider to be far harder than a HP board, it's the rails and the bottom roll that confuse me, I've done a rough rut of the rail bands, but there still about 1 1/4 inches that need to be rounded and refined for the apex, if I get that wrong, the whole thing is stuffed.
Almost made a big mistake on the tail when I was trying for more kick, I took too much off and I realised that I may have a problem setting the fin box far enough back, I think I stopped in time. I may be doing a Volane patch top and bottom, just in case.
The biggest problem is the boss, she not happy about me doing another board and making all the mess so I can only work when she's out and that's usually only on a Sunday, and I need to stop well in advance of her coming home so I can do a really good clean up.
Plus I needed to rig up something that would catch the worst of the dust off the planer, it seem to work well, but it does restrict the planer movements a bit.
The most immediate challenge is the nose conv, I've marked it out and I know what depth I want, but I'm just not sure of how to cut it, so I used a vernier to mark the depth along either side of the stringer by pushing the depth slider into the foam at 2 inch intervals. My theory is, as I see the pin holes disappear, I will know I'm at the right depth.
If it doesn't work, you may not see many more pics.