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ABOUT THIS BLOG
This blog is about my life as a surfboard shaper, I hope to post a heap of photos and stories about my 30+ years of learning (to those who are interested anyway).
For my range of surfboards please visit:
http://krsurf.com/
CONGRATULATION !!!! To my team rider Gus Harfield, he has just become "VICTORIAN JUNIOR CHAMPION". He worked hard to get this title and is highly deserving. He took out the under 18 title, not bad for a guy that just turned 16. We have been working together on his quiver for about a year now and nailed a consistent design range that gets him through all conditions. His small wave board is a stringerless epoxy which he likes to call the "Grove-ler" I designed it for less than perfect small waves up to 3 feet. It is actually my "Immortal" model and it loves this kind of surf. His high performance boards are again epoxy and we are both stoked with the way they feel in the water, alive and springy. KEEP CHARGING GUS
Hi Guy's the video on the left shows you my latest project, it is something that I tried a few years ago and have just revamped it because it worked so well back then.I am currently using it to just do filler and finish coats but I have also laminated on it.Yes they do come off the rotater flat surfaced and I have coated boards in both standard resin and epoxy and both are great.My theory was to get an even coat of resin over the whole board at once, the curving shapes of the surfboard and the rotation allows centrifugal force to hold the resin in place.I never liked the idea of resin falling off the boards as you filler coated the decks and filling the concaves as you coated the bottoms.This way you get less waste and I mean you might get a tea spoon of resin that hits the floor and filler coating set fins is unreal, it leaves them coated perfectly even.It saves time and there is also a complete bond instead of overlapping joins, the rails are smooth as silk and therefore sanding of the rails has less chance of bringing up weave.
For my range of surfboards please visit:
http://krsurf.com/
CONGRATULATION !!!! To my team rider Gus Harfield, he has just become "VICTORIAN JUNIOR CHAMPION". He worked hard to get this title and is highly deserving. He took out the under 18 title, not bad for a guy that just turned 16. We have been working together on his quiver for about a year now and nailed a consistent design range that gets him through all conditions. His small wave board is a stringerless epoxy which he likes to call the "Grove-ler" I designed it for less than perfect small waves up to 3 feet. It is actually my "Immortal" model and it loves this kind of surf. His high performance boards are again epoxy and we are both stoked with the way they feel in the water, alive and springy. KEEP CHARGING GUS
Hi Guy's the video on the left shows you my latest project, it is something that I tried a few years ago and have just revamped it because it worked so well back then.I am currently using it to just do filler and finish coats but I have also laminated on it.Yes they do come off the rotater flat surfaced and I have coated boards in both standard resin and epoxy and both are great.My theory was to get an even coat of resin over the whole board at once, the curving shapes of the surfboard and the rotation allows centrifugal force to hold the resin in place.I never liked the idea of resin falling off the boards as you filler coated the decks and filling the concaves as you coated the bottoms.This way you get less waste and I mean you might get a tea spoon of resin that hits the floor and filler coating set fins is unreal, it leaves them coated perfectly even.It saves time and there is also a complete bond instead of overlapping joins, the rails are smooth as silk and therefore sanding of the rails has less chance of bringing up weave.