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The ‘forty one two’ – skunked by the weather

The plan was to get the ‘forty one two’ glassed today (so the cure process could start) … I don’t want to rush jumping onto this one until its had time to cure, been told at least 7 days, 14 good and 21 best … that will kill me waiting that long and will really slow down the evolution process of this, the first HPSB for FFW Surfboards.

BUT, it rained all do, so working with UV catalyst meant no glassing today … I didn’t want to tempt fate and use MEKP as I do not feel confident going there …. yet!

So, I did some checking of the concaves today, and am pretty happy with how they have come up.

Here’s a pic of the concaves on the board I’m using as my inspiration.

Comparing this and the second pic I posted yesterday … looks about right to me?

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The ‘forty one two’ – before and after concaves

The design from AKU had a very slight single concave of only 1/16″, not 1/8″ as I posted earlier … but as I said, that is exactly what has come out in the cut blank as can be seen on the first pic here.

(Tip: double click on pics to see a full screen version)

The second pic here is after I have shaped in the concaves … I started with the single (or middle) taking down the stringer so I had about 3/16″ between the fins and about 1/8′ under the front foot … I then cut in the doubles so it runs with about 3/32″ from the front foot and runs through to it’s deepest between the fin with 7/32″ … both the single and doubles fade in from the nose, and fade out to the tail.

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Shaping Tools – the “round” on the rounded squash tail

In the process of doing the tail on the ‘forty one two’ I went back and looked closely at the tail on the board i was using as my guide. I used the yellow plastic saucer from my daughters tea set when  did he ‘forty one’, but wanted to double check.

So, I layed the ‘shaping tool’ on the board I was copying …

Yep, pretty close, so I used that again.

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The “forty one two” is here !!!

Stoked … picked up the cut blank for the ‘forty one two’ this afternoon. Sorry the pic’s not better, but I did not have time to get the ‘ozito bay’ set up for some better pic’s, so the garage floor was a quick solution …

Gotta say, AKU Shaper is awesome! The 3D image is very realistic with the cut blank so close to the rendered image …

This one is more “refined” which is what I wanted, and what I had done to tweak the ‘forty one’ file to design this one.

Rails look heaps better, way less foam from the chest forward, and just the slightest 1/8″ of concave in the bottom (which is exactly the measurement I had designed into it on AKU Shaper) … the tail looks much better too, but I won’t really know how much better until I get it into the ‘ozito bay’ and shave some foam off and reshape the machine dags on the blank …

Can you guess that I’m excited?

EDIT: Here’s a better pick of the machine cut blank:

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The ‘forty one two’ has evolved …

I’ve been playing around with the ‘forty one’ in AKU Shaper and it has now evolved into the ‘forty one two’ … I’ve pulled the tail in, as can be seen in the picture,  and have taken some volume out of the rails and from the chest forward. Taking that foam out dropped the volume a bit, so I’ve then added some concave into the file design so I will not have to take as much off the blank once it’s cut.

So, the ‘forty one two’ is starting it’s life … I’ve just e-mailed the file for machine cutting … which hopefully I can collect on Friday.

Here’s a link to a full profile of the board …