Today I tried the power planer for the first time. What a difference to shaping by hand! At first I felt awkward and was very timid with the planer, but after a while I got more into it, and really mowed away at the foam.
At one point I noticed that there was a lot of dust in the air, like our own little private snowstorm in the backyard. I was surprised the vacuum system wasn't doing a better job. Then I realized that I'd forgotten to _turn on_ the vacuum... With the vacuum engaged, there was hardly any dust at all. The planer is pretty loud, however, so I suspect the neighbors may not be quite as thrilled about the planer as I am.
I planed the blank down to 2 & 6/8", a bit thicker than the target of 2 5/8". I figure the last 1/8" will be removed during final sanding after I shape the rails. In the pictures you see the blank after I finished planing + a rough sand job with 50 grit to remove the worst planer marks. You can still see some marks here and there, which I will clean up when I blend the rails.
This is going much faster than I expected. Later this week I will need to shape and blend the rails, sand smooth, and that's it for the shaping.
I hope to do the glassing this weekend, using 6 oz S glass for durability, with orange resin tint. I ordered epoxy and glass last night, so with some luck all the supplies will be here by the weekend.
Stoked!
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2 comments:
Great job, Sven! I am jealous :-)Is this going to be a thruster or a quad shortboard?
Hi Steve! Propobably a thruster. I'm mostly copying a 6.6 thruster I own, just making small changes to slowly try and dial in the ideal everyday board for myself. Main changes this time are slightly more volume, and moving volume forward in the board.
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