09 – HWS
Day 9 – May 8, 2009
(above) Today it starts…
(above) Inside the twenty participants/students get started by laying out the wood strips that will be the deck and bottom of the boards…
(above) The strips are taped in place almost ready to fiberglass…
(above) Mix up some resins and…
(above) …spread it around…
(above) Not looking too bad for the inside of the board…
(above) Halfway through the day we are right on schedule…
(above) Everyone goes home with a set of templates to build their own boards, and a CD “book” to fully explain the whole process…
(above) Between phases of the process we
stop for lunch, south
(above) And style is what
(above) About half hour into the hour and a half lunch break…Sorry no detailed food photos, you would just get jealous…
(above) One traces templates while the others unwind from a hard half-day of collaborative taping and squeeging…
(above) “The imaginary waiter “delivers the tray of drinks… A typical French pantomime…I think its funny too…
(above) Back to hollow surfboards…A frame is assembled…
(above) The Zip Ties are selected for their photogenic qualities…
(above) A frame 99% ready for the exterior skins…
(above) But first some fine tuning of the nose thickness…After this, I / we got 150% busy getting everything aligned, glued and clamped in place…I had not 1/125th of a second to take any pictures…Sometimes it really feels like work…At the end of the first day we are where we need to be with everything as it should be…Everyone is to say the least, stoked…
More later …
Paul