Sub 4 foot board

[Surfdad]

I am going to make a 3'11" board. I have been watching my board as I ride and I believe that I can trim 6 inches of my board. The outline in the first picture is how much I think I can cut back. I trimmed the outline and rocker this evening.

[samw]

Surfdad,
I love your post of the boards you make. I like the looks of that short boards.... Any chance you will be taking any orders????

Thanks and keep it up.

Sam

[Surfdad]

Hey Sam,

What a great compliment! Thanks so much. No...I won't ever produce any for retail. The margins in that business are so thin, it doesn't make any sense for me. I don't know how some of the smaller shops make it.

I like to post up the construction methods to disseminate info for the bigger more efficient manufacturers to consider. The divinycell build is a surftech knockoff and can be done by someone like Matt at Smedmen's, Billy at ASC, Mike at TWP, Dave at Vernor. Hopefully those custom builders will take on custom construction like that if ordered.

OR, quite frankly just about anyone in their garage can do it.

Thanks again for the encouragemnt!

[Surfdad]

Rails shaped and a slight concave on the bottom...some spackle to fill in the pukas

[sagmanaur]

Jeff,

Pretty soon you'll be surfing on a saucer.

If there was a way to automate some of the processes, you could make some money. But of course to automate, it would take money.... a vicious circle.

[Surfdad]

Sag - you must have peeked in my shop I want to make a saucer! Wouldn't that be a blast - 1080's without really trying.

[Surfdad]

Ready for a skin...I am thinking that I'll do the bottom first, the wrap the rails..but I'm not sure just yet, so...some planning is needed.

[samw]

surfdad, that thing looks a lot of fun. Man how small can you go???

[Surfdad]

I've ridden teh Trick Boardz Surf Skate - which I think has to be the king of short it comes in 39 and 42 inch lengths. I think you need to have a very deep concave to go that small and it tends to make the board sticky for bigger guys. I think I am about as short as I can go at 47 inches on this style of board - maybe I can trim another 3 inches which would put it at 3'8". That would be the very shortest, I'm pretty sure.

[Surfdad]

This is the build methodology that I want to use. It's from the Lost Placebo website. The Lost flexlite construction is what I want to replicate - it's the same construction that is used on Josh Sleigh's skate model.

They heat the d-cell and then mold it to shape. I don't have that luxury, but the new generation of h-80 will wrap around a 1/8" radius cold, whereas the old h-80 and other foams like corecell and rohacell will just snap at that extreme curvature.

The other composite builds have been identical, except that I have used d-cell vertically on the rails and not wrapped them with 1/8" sheet.

We'll see...wouldn't be the first time I've failed on a build.

[Surfdad]

uh oh - I guess they split the picture! I'll have to go look for the other half

[Surfdad]

Yep - left and right. Not sure that I can get it to line up, but I'll try. No, the site won't let me duplicate the first picture - sorry!

[Surfdad]

ok, how about THIS

[Surfdad]

I finally decided on Carbon. Isn't that a sweet look?

[da.bell]

Will even look better once you are finished. Are you planning to come up for the reunion at Rollins Reservoir? I am sure we would like to see all the creations that you did lined up.