Not sure if it belongs in here or the longboard forum as it's 1/2 a longboard..

Just back from 11 days surfing the south coast and surfed all types of boards. Came back refreshed and all inspired to finish off a hollow timber mini simmons I have been working on and off on for months. A few hours latter in the shed and the hollow timber blank is finished and rough shaping complete. Still need to do final clean up of outline and rails and sorting fin position and the fat betty will be ready for glassing. (i post some finished photos up when done)


haven't run the tape over her yet but its roughly 5'10" by 23" wide 19" nose and 20" tail and 17.5 right on the arse, 3 inches thick and flat rocker... shes a fat chunky thing...




S-deck in the making fat and wide



Fin options, arrrahhh



sanding in a single to double out the rear

Looks great man, wish i had the nouse/ability to make my own board. I've got a custom made one of these www.yahoosurfboards.com.au/kelvinator.html with very similar dimensions, couldnt ask for a better board to surf in perth especially as ive got it set up as a quad. Good luck with it.

That things gonna be a fuggin rocket ship. Gonna fly with those concs, I reckon you'll see why they're christened bars of soap.

I've got a similar design compsand kneelo and it's much more user friendly as a quad, could be worth the extra couple of plugs to play around with. I ride mine with MR TFX's and PC7's but I'm a 105kg and need the fin area, usually surf it as a twinzer in anything over 2ft or extra sucky for the extra drive and hold.

Nice to see someone thinking outside the square on here, there's more to surfing than thrusters and air reverses. Riding things like this make below average waves fun and when you try them in half decent surf they're an absolute hoot.

Surfed mine at good Wedge last year a couple of times and it was a blast just trying to make it go in a straight line. Like a GTR XU1 with a 308 under the bonnet.....

Thanks for the comments, love the kelvinator name from yahoo that looks like a great shape and rail/nose design sounds on the money.

I am only a hack builder and surfer and enjoy building and riding retro style boards

I hope she fly's down the line its was built for speed, full single concave ~1/4" running from nose to the back and I am sanding in the double in the rear 15". I have also tried to put as much roll in the nose rails as I can, bit limited what I can do with the hollow timber not much scope to play after the initial design phase. I would have liked to have thinned it out a bit more and bladed the rails more as well. This ones pretty boxy as I was trying to keep the volume up to float my 115kgs....

Already planning a compsand one 2 1/2 inch thick, pulled in tail and full roll in the nose and bladed out rails and nose and tail, and maybe shorter.... depending if my old crippled 6'2" body can handle the sub 6 foot bar of soap.

cheers

Hack? Yeh right.
Looks it, ya rough bastard. Let me know if you'd like to shape me a compsand for material costs to help get your eye in

Shunter - looks great.

This is a link to wooden board site run by Grant Newby who organises the Wooden Board Show & The Alley Fish Fry each year. Check out the Simmons he made over Christmas

woodensurfboards.blogspot.com/

Few photos of the mini simmons finished - I have named her the dunny door..

looks a bit ****house but surfs ok. Had her out at the point in less than perfect waves a couple of nights ago and it surfs knee high mush ok, better than I can surf anyway Not bad since i am 115kgs... never throught I would be on a sub 6' board.

that is unreal mate. im with smicko on this though,want to see a proper hack,watch me. geez i even stuff things up watching people. so envious of your talent. bravo

Looks sweet, what'd you use for wood?

Have a 6'2" mini in design mode on the puter at home to be chambered. Have a couple other projects around the flat I have to finish before I can start though

Its all hollow timber construction . Nose and tail blocks are western red cedar, the rest is Paulownia, The photos came up a bit more yellow than it is as they where taken on dusk. I get some in the day light that show true colours of timber.

The board is made up of 8mm pualownia for the ribs and spine, 8mm for the deck and bottom that was sanded down to ~4-6mm but tried to keep 8mm around feet area on deck.

I pre built in concave into the ribs and rocker table. I only had to sand in double concave in the tail. Used K3600 arildite epoxy resin and 4oz top and bottom with full rail wrap on both top and bottom lams. Used High density foam blocks around the future fin boxes and set them in with glass as well to stop any potential leaks... not good for a hollow timber board.....


Cheers