Yeah its going to be terrible, not sure how you'll cope.

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 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

hahahaha well I trust you gave the 4 post bench a pressure test before purchase

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...

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!

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!!

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

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

I think you will have enough time