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- Mon Feb 22, 2021 2:58 am
- Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
- Topic: TBG7
- Replies: 1
- Views: 28
Re: TBG7
I just picked up this board from the glasser. It's the precursor of the new G7. It was the first PU/PE T-Belly that I've done in about 10 years. I forgot how much finishing the stringer can slow you down. I used the ultra-light "Red" density Millennium 5-0WS blank for this shape. Millenium...
- Sat Feb 20, 2021 4:47 pm
- Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
- Topic: TBG7
- Replies: 1
- Views: 28
TBG7
I've put a lot of thought into the G5 design over the past 7 months, removing features and adding features. With the return of my glasser, the door to eps shapes was re-opened, and I decided that it was time to settle on a new design, the "G7". Basically, I removed the bottom rail bevel/co...
- Sat Feb 20, 2021 4:12 pm
- Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
- Topic: TBG5
- Replies: 120
- Views: 33177
Re: TBG5
Got some good news the other day...my epoxy glasser is back in the biz, at least part-time. He's actually finishing a PU core G5 this weekend for me. I've made some major tweaks in the design in anticipation of going back to EPS, and will start a new "G7" thread. I still ride my G5 regular...
- Sun Jan 24, 2021 9:12 pm
- Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
- Topic: Hot Curl Prone Board
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4921
Re: Hot Curl Prone Board
Never got around to building it....got side-tracked by kneeboarding and building kneeboards. Maybe this year...
- Fri Jan 15, 2021 4:18 pm
- Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
- Topic: TBG5
- Replies: 120
- Views: 33177
Re: TBG5
I don't think so, he's a local Ventura guy, lifelong surfer. While riding the G5, he was having trouble over-turning and doing inadvertent 360s and kick-outs as a result of muscle memory related to turning his Bonzer. The combination of the curvy outline and the location of the fins make the G5/G6 t...
- Thu Jan 14, 2021 3:23 pm
- Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
- Topic: TBG5
- Replies: 120
- Views: 33177
Re: TBG5
G5-PU Progress Note: Customer Order for G5 twin received Shape Aku File created Blank Aku File created Machinist buy in obtained Glasser buy-in obtained PU Blank ordered from Millennium Foam and maybe delivered today Probably 5 wks out from completion. This particular customer has been riding one of...
- Mon Dec 28, 2020 5:08 pm
- Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
- Topic: Does it sound like a good paipo ?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 300
Re: Does it sound like a good paipo ?
my $0.02...the shape pictured is pretty well-executed with a wide-point forward outline, beveled rail allows concave deck, bottom contours appear to be belly-to-flat with exit concave out the tail. All good stuff... but I would not surf this board with fins unless all I wanted to do was go fast in a...
- Thu Dec 17, 2020 3:40 pm
- Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
- Topic: New Blank
- Replies: 7
- Views: 483
Re: New Blank
Pes... While I haven't pulled the trigger on ordering a new blank, I've had great support from Millennium. The guy I worked with is Seth (seth.bishop@millenniumelastomers.com) I think they have worked out the kinks in logistics that may have plagued them earlier.
- Thu Nov 26, 2020 12:11 am
- Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
- Topic: Interesting thread on Sway's
- Replies: 1
- Views: 229
Interesting thread on Sway's
https://www.swaylocks.com/forum/109358/stoneburners-assist-build-48-12-body-board I like the modular concept of the "channel cartridge", which would allow experimentation with outline, rocker, rail shape, etc while maintaining the same or almost the same bottom contour. Not bad for a "...
- Sat Nov 14, 2020 11:35 pm
- Forum: Your Wave
- Topic: Pipeline, O`ahu North Shore
- Replies: 4
- Views: 481
- Fri Nov 13, 2020 10:46 pm
- Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
- Topic: New Blank
- Replies: 7
- Views: 483
Re: New Blank
Oops! That was for EPS...PU a little less than $47
- Fri Nov 13, 2020 8:53 pm
- Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
- Topic: New Blank
- Replies: 7
- Views: 483
Re: New Blank
The 5-3 is $58, so the 5-0 would be a little less. http://stores.millenniumfoam.com/53-to-62-long-4/
- Fri Nov 13, 2020 8:48 pm
- Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
- Topic: New Blank
- Replies: 7
- Views: 483
Re: New Blank
KRusher Rincon Rocket...
...why I love Aku- Thu Nov 12, 2020 5:21 pm
- Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
- Topic: New Blank
- Replies: 7
- Views: 483
New Blank
Anyone still hand-shaping prone-boards using polyurethane (PU) foam? In my effort to convert from EPS to PU core, I came across this new offering from Millennial Foam (millennialfoam.com). It's a blank designed for use in shaping wake surfboards, and it has the width and thickness needed for prone-b...
- Sun Nov 08, 2020 8:25 pm
- Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
- Topic: TBG5
- Replies: 120
- Views: 33177
Re: TBG5
David, let me try to clarify...most surfboard CNC machinist are experienced with machining molded surfboard blanks. Occasionally, they will machine a "slab cut" of eps, which is a rectangular shaped blank, with a rocker already cut (imagine a block of eps 4'Hx4'Wx8'-12'L. A hot wire is use...
- Sat Nov 07, 2020 3:12 am
- Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
- Topic: Nose thickness
- Replies: 16
- Views: 668
Re: Nose thickness
The first board in this series was 2 1/2 - 2 11/16 - 1 3/4; the board previous to this one was 1 3/4 - 1 3/4 - 1, so changes recently are more subtle and in the distribution. I would estimate that this board is under 22L, and as such it would be way too thin for me. But, it would yield really thin ...
- Thu Nov 05, 2020 7:28 pm
- Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
- Topic: Nose thickness
- Replies: 16
- Views: 668
Re: Nose thickness
Yes, less volume in the front third of the shape is easier to duck-dive. Less "area" is also easier to submerge, e.g. narrow pointy nose vs. wide blunt nose
- Thu Nov 05, 2020 11:20 am
- Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
- Topic: Nose thickness
- Replies: 16
- Views: 668
Re: Nose thickness
Finless?
- Wed Nov 04, 2020 4:14 pm
- Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
- Topic: Nose thickness
- Replies: 16
- Views: 668
Re: Nose thickness
One other point, I consider rider mass and intended use in determining target volume. So, a larger rider in smaller waves would get more volume than a smaller rider in smaller waves. And nose thickness would vary accordingly; thicker nose for larger rider and vice versa.
- Wed Nov 04, 2020 4:08 pm
- Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
- Topic: Nose thickness
- Replies: 16
- Views: 668
Re: Nose thickness
This is my latest G5 profile. With no deck concave, and only 3/16" bottom concave, it is an accurate representation of the thickness flow from nose to tail (foil). Keep in mind that this is how the blank will come off the CNC machine and that the extreme ends will be thinned out 1/4" or so...