Today's work-day started with sanding down our masonite templates. We matched up the pairs (like the kid's game) and sanded down the template for Micah and Kat's 7'6 funboard design, both the rocker and the shape. Speaking of which, here's a breakdown of the boards we're making:
Drew - 6'8 Semi-gun and 6'2 Fish
Justin - 7'6 Hybrid
Micah - 7'6 Funboard
Kat - 7'6 Funboard
Once the funboard rockers were ready, we tested out our fancy schmancy hotwire tool. After connecting it to an old battery charger, we did some test cuts on an old piece of foam. Everybody kept it at arm's length, as we all suspected it to asplode at any second. But, we were smarter than we thought (S-M-R-T), and the hotwire worked better than we'd hoped. After tweaking the wire thickness a bit with a trip to town, we set about cutting out the rockers for Micah's board.
Before we cut out any top shapes, we need to cut out our stringers and start gluing our rocker shapes together. So that is the project for this week - Micah is going to take the birch hardwood planks we scored from work and mill them down to 1/8" for our stringers.
End of day had the score at shapers 1, boards 0.
Attendees: Drew, Justin, Micah, Dor (new team rookie), Kara (team photographer), and not Kat.
2 comments:
Uh... this might be pointing out the obvious, but if the garage is heated, why are you all wearing touques and jackets?
Michelle - too lazy to switch blogger accounts!
Tsk, Tsk Michelle! I would expect such a question from an American who's never been to the Great White North, but you should know better! Even heated garages up here are barely above freezing! In all seriousness, it's been warm enough to take our jackets off a few times. Almost warm enough to go surfing then!
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