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Just got back from the beach. The surf was about head high on the sets, actually bigger then I wanted for the first session on such a thin board but it was very clean and glassy so I paddled out at T street, the swell too much for the beach breaks. Caught enough waves to report it's a much better ri...

Thinned it way down, big roll in the nose, going into a deep central concave all the way out the tail.. IMGP3926.JPG It's so thin I decided to glue a bamboo splint across grain in the tail. IMGP3931.JPG Probably at the minimum thickness for an unglassed wood board but it's strictly a small wave stic...

A few years back when I first got serious about prone riding I shaped this board with paulownia bought off the 'net. Just glued it up and cut out the somewhat wonky plan shape and eased the edges. At that time I really didn't know sh!t from Shinola when it comes to these boards and I wanted to leave...

Cork shapes easily with abrasive papers. There's a lot of board work being done with cork these days.. Especially rails autumnschild_tail[1].jpg P1040661[2].JPG You can seal cork with any number of concoctions such as thinned varnish or Tru Oil but for use as a deck it's not really needed and may po...

Appears that F2 is the down under version of contact cement. If it's real stinky it'll prolly stick real good. ;) Cork is cool cuz it's natural and self sustaining. You can even build a boat from it.http://www.corkboat.com/ Good lumber yards and most well stocked home stores carry sheet cork, the th...

Don't know what type of 'puter you are using but most have a simple program for photo resizing.
Microsoft Office Picture Manager is what I use.

Seriously, DOH is waves in 10'-12' range. I ride prone because of physical limitations and waves that big are generally not in my repertoire anymore; 6'-8' is about my limit. If there was a spot with a channel and a peak I might give a go but around here size means lots of paddleing and BIG CROWDS. ...

A beach chair.

= ENVY!

Yeah I shoulda mentioned Tom & Jon are both very approachable and nice guys.
They can on occasion be hard to get a hold of but I guess that's true of most surfers........
Jon is based in Hermosa I think Spud.

Considering the costs of lumber these days that's not a bad price. You could make it yourself for 1/4 that price of course but finding appropriate wood is the hard part. These guys have paulownia but it ain't cheap. http://www.woodsurfboardsupply.com/wood_kits.html Many of the woods in the list I po...

UG, What do you think the pros & cons of that exact same board would be, only increase the width to 20"? To be perfectly honest, I have no idea. However and keep in mind I ride prone only, The first board I built was 5' X 20 X 3/4 and I'm in the process of cutting it down in width and thic...

My daily ride is modeled after Tom Wegener's Finley. We met at Sacred Craft a few years ago and I bent his ear for quite a while before building it. It is by far, my favorite board for surf under head high. 5' 5" X 15.5" X < 3/4" Paulownia with a Tung Oil based Salad Bowl finish. IMGP...

FWIW, you might try a coat of epoxy followed by a few coats of paint.
That'll help keep the splinterage down.

Lots of the old plank boards were a combination of Redwood and Doug Fir and/or White Pine. The Doug Fir was almost always used as stringers so there was no worries about splinters on the rails. It's often used in boat building due to it's good strength to weight ratio and it's fairly high rot resist...

I don't know why this board keeps splintering,

I noticed in the OP you said it was marine ply.
Most of the readily available marine ply is domestic or Canadian stuff made with Douglas Fir which is highly prone to splintering (and checking on the faces).
It's often glassed in final use.

With a board that thin, square rails are fine. In fact better then fine, perfect.
Just don't get a splinter.