Emma S. posted an article on Wooden Surfboard Builder - Dec 8, 2009, 1:09 am
Very sorry but I pressed the wrong button and deleted your comments, and they can't be retreived. If you'd like to post them again I'd be grateful Roy
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Emma S. posted an article on Wooden Surfboard Builder - Dec 8, 2009, 12:42 am
hey gang, thought I'd start one of those chain letters that seem to work so well when you're reporting from some crazy surfing epicentre. And there's no epicentre like the North Shore of O...
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Emma S. posted an article on Wooden Surfboard Builder - Dec 7, 2009, 7:48 pm
My apologies to Matt and the other poster who put comments up today, I hit 'reject' instead of 'accept by mistake and can't retrieve the comments. Sorry
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Emma S. posted an article on Wooden Surfboard Builder - Dec 7, 2009, 4:31 am
The FP 13 is an excellent board in ALL conditions, and would be a great board for Waimea When I built the first FP 12 in 1997 we were living out the back of a huge old mansion in Gisborne which had b...
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Emma S. posted an article on Wooden Surfboard Builder - Dec 5, 2009, 4:18 am
We invented the parallel profile system of hollow wooden construction, and developed the tunnel fin independently, our many different tunnel fin setups are also unique. When the tunnel fin was first ...
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Emma S. posted an article on Wooden Surfboard Builder - Nov 30, 2009, 11:57 pm
Here's the new boomerang flex fin which wil be used in combination with the vort-x tunnel fin. This fin is a development of the previous bulb tipped flex fin used on the Baron prototype. The con...
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Emma S. posted an article on Wooden Surfboard Builder - Nov 30, 2009, 3:10 am
CERBAE: summers coming up, cop the $20,000 surf board for polynesian royalty
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Emma S. posted an article on Wooden Surfboard Builder - Nov 22, 2009, 11:41 pm
Here's 'Blue Pig's' ride report on his board built to the Power Surfboards Makaha design: Firstly, thanks to roy for sharing so much detail about his build method, and thanks for all...
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Emma S. posted an article on Wooden Surfboard Builder - Nov 22, 2009, 3:20 pm
Hey Roy, It's Rich. I'm a fan of fin lift too. I always semifoil my twinners and like a lot of angle, with the idea to keep the tail snug into the wave at speed. I get the rail-to-rail adva...
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Emma S. posted an article on Wooden Surfboard Builder - Nov 21, 2009, 1:12 am
grubster wrote: I dont think anybody has said Roys board cant be ridden in waves of consequence. The whole pipeline challenge started precisely because Bill Barnfield said on Swaylocks that none of ...
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Emma S. posted an article on Wooden Surfboard Builder - Nov 19, 2009, 10:36 pm
Here's the tunnel fin for the #Baron_surfboard taking shape. Because this tunnel fin setup also has a planar fin in the form of a bulb tipped flex fin, it won't have to handle high angles of...
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Emma S. posted an article on Wooden Surfboard Builder - Nov 18, 2009, 12:23 am
INVITEES Andy Irons, Hawaii Brian Keaulana, Hawaii Brock Little, Hawaii Bruce Irons, Hawaii Carlos Burle, Brazil Clyde Aikau, Hawaii Darryl Virostko, California Greg Long, California Jamie O’Brien,...
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Emma S. posted an article on Wooden Surfboard Builder - Nov 17, 2009, 8:22 pm
" Now for a proper ride report! Well, almost anyway... Keep in mind that I'm not the best surfer so I'm only able to comment on how well the board handles me. I'm not quite qualified to ...
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Emma S. posted an article on Wooden Surfboard Builder - Nov 14, 2009, 2:37 am
Finishing off the first internal panel: the tail with fin blocking. This panel will be under the deck so it doesn't need blocking for the tunnel fin. The blocking for the main fin goes right throu...
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Emma S. posted an article on Wooden Surfboard Builder - Nov 14, 2009, 2:15 am
We are not usually into obvious logos and are more interested in the board itself. Consequently these days we prefer them to be unobtrusive, often I forget to put our stamp on the tail Also there&#...
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Emma S. posted an article on Wooden Surfboard Builder - Nov 7, 2009, 6:14 pm
wing in the wave, wing in the wind | By Roy Stewart | Category: Sports & Adventure | Blurb Welcome to the 2010 olo board collection. Enjoy the beauty and philosophy of the ...
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Emma S. posted an article on Wooden Surfboard Builder - Nov 4, 2009, 2:47 am
Still after many years no one has taken the very simple and often published point of ours that rocker is never defined in the surf industry ( except in our camp it seems ) by actual rates of curvatur...
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Emma S. posted an article on Wooden Surfboard Builder - Nov 4, 2009, 2:32 am
Discussion of downrails nearly always winds up focusing on the part of the rail below the turn, and usually does so without any reference to the actual radius of the rail below the turn. Focusing o...
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Emma S. posted an article on Wooden Surfboard Builder - Nov 2, 2009, 6:53 pm
Answer to a question regarding the use of 3mm wide frames in the parallel profile surfboard construction system: 3mm or 4mm is thinner than I'd use unless the frame junctions are tied with vertic...
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Emma S. posted an article on Wooden Surfboard Builder - Nov 1, 2009, 7:19 pm
Here the mid section of the panel which was glued yesterday is ready for the nose components and most of the tail. The tail will be done in two sessions to avoid creep. Mixing 100mls of resin at a ...
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Emma S. posted an article on Wooden Surfboard Builder - Nov 1, 2009, 1:48 am
Internal frame panel #1 this one will support the deck After laying out the blocks and frames for the middle section of the panel, we secure the frame and blocks at one end of the section we are abou...
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Emma S. posted an article on Wooden Surfboard Builder - Oct 31, 2009, 9:21 pm
. . . continued from surf.co.nz http://surf.co.nz/forum/surfing-chat/203/ Riding old singlefins again was good but didn't satisfy the urge to create, so we moved ahead with our original Great...
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Emma S. posted an article on Wooden Surfboard Builder - Oct 31, 2009, 2:52 am
This one's to a favourite design frst built in 2003. She's 12 feet by 27 inches wide by 2.5 inches thick, with a roundtail, an 8 inch tunnel and a bulb tipped flex fin. The Baron was desig...
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Emma S. posted an article on Wooden Surfboard Builder - Oct 16, 2009, 7:21 pm
Low dynamic lift surfboards require higher buoyancy than high lift shapes, as they don't produce as much lift at paddle in to takeoff speed. So, a wide board with lots of nose lift ( a high lift ...
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Emma S. posted an article on Wooden Surfboard Builder - Oct 16, 2009, 3:20 am
This one is so alive that it shivers and vibrates when handled and in response to noise. The design is all about ease of turning, it moves like a snake.
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Emma S. posted an article on Wooden Surfboard Builder - Sep 30, 2009, 1:28 am
The Resolute Salmon ready to hit the waves. .
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Emma S. posted an article on Wooden Surfboard Builder - Sep 24, 2009, 5:41 am

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Emma S. posted an article on Wooden Surfboard Builder - Sep 1, 2009, 10:44 pm
. .. . a conversation with 'SB'on the Tree to Sea surfboard design forum. Roy, Can you explain a bit about how a tunnel fin performs and why? I'm not sure what to expect from it or what ...
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Emma S. posted an article on Wooden Surfboard Builder - Aug 24, 2009, 4:00 am
The Blowhole Main Beach mount Maunganui on the hollow balsa Future Primitive12 footer ( a chip at only 2 inches thick ) Year 2000 James ( 8 yrs ) on the 10'4" Redwood 'Makaha' at the mai...
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Emma S. posted an article on Wooden Surfboard Builder - Aug 16, 2009, 5:23 am
Time to clean up the finished panel, make a tunnel finned sized slice and do some fin foiling for the tunnel plus one combination. . . .
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Emma S. posted an article on Wooden Surfboard Builder - Aug 14, 2009, 11:17 pm
Here the first layer of 3mm edge glued paulownia has been sanded, and the cloth layer ( a wool/nylon blend ) is sewn on to hold it in place while the clear epoxy resin is applied with a brush Now the...
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Emma S. posted an article on Wooden Surfboard Builder - Aug 12, 2009, 1:51 am
A paulownia/epoxy panel being made for the 6 inch Resolute Salmon tunnel fin. This panel will make about 4 tunnel fins.
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Emma S. posted an article on Wooden Surfboard Builder - Aug 8, 2009, 5:15 am
There are various historic D fin shapes, but a simple and good one is just a half of the letter 'D' with or without a cutaway. These can be drawn with a compass and a straight edge. The adva...
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Emma S. posted an article on Wooden Surfboard Builder - Aug 8, 2009, 4:07 am
Deck and bottom are sanded, now the second rail facet is created. The rail is a continuous 50/50 section, almost a circular section but very slightly 'pinched' or elliptical. In theory making...
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Emma S. posted an article on Wooden Surfboard Builder - Aug 5, 2009, 6:46 am
" I love what you guys are doing. Keep it up! Aloha, Tom "boogie' Morey " Thanks Tom, here's today's doing: The first rail facets completed on the 12 foot Resolute Salmon pa...
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Emma S. posted an article on Wooden Surfboard Builder - Aug 4, 2009, 5:00 pm
The first thing which comes to mind is that because the extreme pintail with soft rails develops very little planing lift ( at least progressively less towards the tail ) it maintains the same handlin...
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Emma S. posted an article on Wooden Surfboard Builder - Aug 4, 2009, 5:35 am
Testing the tunnel plus bulb tipped flex fin on the 11'8" Resolute Salmon hollow redwood surfboard, in 2005 at Mount Maunganui's Main Beach, in the Bay of Plenty New Zealand The board was bui...
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