I'm a guy outside Chicago who spends a few weeks a year in San Diego surfing, am an ok surfer but have never shaped, don't have cabinet-makers skills, and have no nearby surfboard shops to go into to ask advice . . . the last one whose first project should be building a hollow wooden board. I tried it nonetheless and now that I'm done it was awesome. My understanding of board features, characteristics and trade-offs as well as my appreciation for those who actually know how to do this has skyrocketed.

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Final sanding

Using the orbital sander, sanding blocks, and hand sanding, the final step was to knock down all edges on the rails as well as everywhere else on the board. I used the 6" planer to knock down a few bumps on the deck. For the final sand, I started @ 150 grit and went all the way to 800.

The nose and the tail in particular were shaped more with sand paper than planing - with the curves, the 6" plane would cut well with the grain but then round a corner and hang against the grain. It was ok for roughing out the shape but sanding got out all the rough spots.
With this final sanding, all that is left is glassing, including installation of the vent and fin boxes. 

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