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Macaha said..
Obct coping part of his old board,whats the secret in that.
I actually took design cues from at least 3 boards, maybe more;
1. Plan Shape
This was the easiest, I like a pintail and my SSD is a pin tail, I simply used that with 8" out of the middle.
2. Rails
Yes, similar to the munoz, but because this board is one inch thicker than the munoz, I had to find a way to blend them in without resorting to a stepped deck, hence 3, the chine.
3. Chine
I like the way Argee does chines, so I did some of them, that kind of fooled my rails into thinking the board was around 3/8" thinner than it really was, hopefully it will also fool the waves. They don't go all the way, about 17" back from the nose and 20" up from the tail, they're fully blended into the rails.
4. Tail foil and kick
My SSD has a lot of both and I like the way it turns, so I did a lot of foiling of the tail and a big kick. Plus a friend of me and MR has a board made in NZ that's got a heap of tail kick, and we reckon it goes like a busted arse.
5. Rocker
Almost continuous, maybe about 9" in the centre where it almost disappears, but even then it's making room for the double conc
6. The underside
No real inspirations here, just my imagination, I tried to commence the double conc around 40" up from the tail, it slowly fans outwards until it blends in with the end of the rail chines and flows out the sides, the tail has a vee, but not a biggy . The only other unusual thing is a small flat planing surface up near the nose, you would be hard pressed to see it and it can't really be called a conc. it's only around 9' wide, and around 18" back from the nose. It wasn't a mistake, I meant to put it there, but I just don't know why.
If I can't catch waves on it, I'm going to cut it up and pretend it never happened.