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Spanner in the Works

Created by Tux Tux  > 9 months ago, 19 Jul 2013
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Tux
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Tux

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19 Jul 2013 3:25pm
Well this weekend was looking great for glassing my first board until I got the updated weather report...what was a weekend of giant sized onshore mush burgers has spun around to 3-5 foot and offshore all day for till Tuesday....woe is me
Salty Sea Dog
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19 Jul 2013 4:55pm
Yeah its going to be terrible, not sure how you'll cope.
laceys lane
laceys lane

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19 Jul 2013 5:34pm
soldier on and glass the board
chrispy
chrispy

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19 Jul 2013 5:04pm
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laceys lane said...
soldier on and glass the board


Just get the art work right,you don't need waves when ya look good
Ted the Kiwi
Ted the Kiwi

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19 Jul 2013 11:05pm
Tux the inlaws are there if my memory serves me correctly....so its pretty easy.
Saturday
6am - put wettie on and head for the points for the early.
8am - home for a shower, ** and breakfast - cooked for you
8:45 - start the glassing
10am head back out for surf #2
12 back home for lunch
12:30 back into the shaping bay for glassing and some sanding on board 1
3pm time to hang with the kids
3:30pm one last session at the points......despite the cold wettie put it on and paddle out for the evening class off
5:30pm - home for beers and dinner
7:30pm - a quick sanding session
8pm back indoors for a quick shower and another beer or 3
10pm time for the wife to reward you for a tough day

Sunday
repeat as above

thePup
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19 Jul 2013 9:09pm
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Ted the Kiwi said..

Tux the inlaws are there if my memory serves me correctly....so its pretty easy.
Saturday
6am - put wettie on and head for the points for the early.
8am - home for a shower, ** and breakfast - cooked for you
8:45 - start the glassing
10am head back out for surf #2
12 back home for lunch
12:30 back into the shaping bay for glassing and some sanding on board 1
3pm time to hang with the kids
3:30pm one last session at the points......despite the cold wettie put it on and paddle out for the evening class off
5:30pm - home for beers and dinner
7:30pm - a quick sanding session
8pm back indoors for a quick shower and another beer or 3
10pm time for the wife to reward you for a tough day

Sunday
repeat as above



^^^^ geez Ted you are a thoroughbred with that pace buddy
Ted the Kiwi
Ted the Kiwi

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19 Jul 2013 11:19pm
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thePup said..


^^^^ geez Ted you are a thoroughbred with that pace buddy


Time is money Pup Also I live by a schedule at certain times and the weekend sometimes is one of them sadly......the fianc? is a continuous improvement manager at a large factory so I am under the pump at home far too often ......got some good points though this weekend as I spent the last 3 evenings sanding back the new (but old - second hand purchase) workbench and then doing the first and second coats of staining this arvo...should be ready for action tom with the new mattress that was delivered this morning
thePup
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19 Jul 2013 9:29pm
hahahaha well I trust you gave the 4 post bench a pressure test before purchase
Ted the Kiwi
Ted the Kiwi

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20 Jul 2013 7:55pm
So what did ya do today Tux? Sounds like the Bells Bowl was working so lots of other spots would have as well.........
Simondo
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20 Jul 2013 9:21pm
Ted, I chatted to a Brazillian guy on a 7 footish board (boat!), hand shaped, made from Agave wood...

Agave Wood... yes... That is the stumpy cycad/palm/cactus thing that they make Tequila from! Yes, tequila!...
He was back in Brazil, and chopped up a big old plant at his folks place, and glued it up to make a blank...
Light like Paulownia... Forgot to ask if it was solid or hollow... It must be hollow...
Simondo
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20 Jul 2013 9:27pm
This is interesting... Agave wood board blank, meets "spanner in the works"... actually "on topic" is a peculiar way! Also links in vis an Agave Board at Bells today, in Tux's back yard, and shaping your own boards, like Tux...

wawawave.blogspot.com/
Simondo
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20 Jul 2013 9:28pm
From the link ^... this is not me...;

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I shaped the Agave blank last week, a task I performed with all the existential angst of a bird wearing eau de corpse cleaning the teeth of a dozing croc.
I learnt a few things though?firstly a good respirator is a wonderful thing and a few simple precautions (working outdoors, wearing a long sleeve shirt etc.) go a long way in making the work more pleasant.
Working with this wood again distilled my existing thoughts on the intricacies of harvesting and milling Agave. Making a good quality, even density blank requires a certain amount of knowledge and timing.
A couple of years ago a carpenter friend of mine harvested and milled some Agave. He picked only the vigorous, green, crazy horny, springtime-of-their-lives, stems; planked them immediately and dried them. The resulting wood was, to extend a metaphor, virginal white, rot free, as light weight as foam and evenly dense. My new blank was less virtuous, more Mary Magdalene than Mary mother of God. It united the pale rot free planks with dense brown strips cut from close to the surface as well as red and grey planks where the decay had set in. Trying to shape the latter with a block plane was like attempting to plane a sponge and although the resulting combination of colours is deeply pleasing, the lack of uniformity in desity made shaping trickier than it needed to be.

Still, I think it all worked out of in the end. My new board is a slight departure from my usual, single concave, planing hull obsession. Its a 4'9" quagg. Flat bottomed stand up paipo. Flat bottomed girls make the rockin world go round!
Ted the Kiwi
Ted the Kiwi

NSW

14256 posts

20 Jul 2013 9:44pm
Nice find Simondo......the Shapers van stopped by today and I loaded up on a few new items - a soft sanding block, loads of fin plugs and leg rope plugs and a lovely medium weight sanding disc......very excited
Tux
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22 Jul 2013 8:25am
Managed to get the top and bottom glassed...just the fill coat and the fins to go....had two awsome surfs....with no more than 5 people in the water so happy days!!
Ted the Kiwi
Ted the Kiwi

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22 Jul 2013 9:47am
Great news.........Pics please
Tux
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22 Jul 2013 11:12am
Bro I only got one snap cause I was racing to get it done...learnt a few lessons along the way which was good....hope fully the fill and some sanding can cover my blemishes...didn't get and high spots or air bubbles which was a bonus...it did howver end up a bit rough where I wrapped the rails and at the nose and tail...live and learn I suppose
chrispy
chrispy

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22 Jul 2013 10:44am
Good work tux. I still haven't claimed my b'day present of making a board yet. This is starting to motivate me though
Ted the Kiwi
Ted the Kiwi

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22 Jul 2013 10:10pm
yeah those rails can be a bit tricky where the tail and nose are - I was taught to not just do a single cut for the lap but to actually cut a little 'V' thats about 5ml wide to help you do the corners and stop over-lapping as such. On Swaylocks there are some good tips on the best way to repair those little incidents if you are worried about the cosmetics
Tux
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23 Jul 2013 8:36am
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Ted the Kiwi said..
yeah those rails can be a bit tricky where the tail and nose are - I was taught to not just do a single cut for the lap but to actually cut a little 'V' thats about 5ml wide to help you do the corners and stop over-lapping as such. On Swaylocks there are some good tips on the best way to repair those little incidents if you are worried about the cosmetics


Cheers bro...I'm not overly worried at this stage...just want to get it finished before I go to the Mentawis at the end of August!!
Ted the Kiwi
Ted the Kiwi

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24 Jul 2013 9:52am
I think you will have enough time
Tux
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24 Jul 2013 2:11pm
Not if the surf keeps pumping
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