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When this book came up on Surf Blurb, I noticed that it was already listed on the Paipo Biblio in the "to be obtained" section. Good job guys.

http://mypaipoboards.org/bibliography_MyPaipos.shtml

Haole tourist Rollo wearing a straw hat and "surfboating" with a local beachboy steering in the back...Diamond Head in the background. We see this tourist canoe ride a lot in the old films of Waikiki on YouTube. Here's a postcard I got recently on Ebay. We've seen similar versions before, ...

I've been wondering about plywood bellyboards in Cuba prior to the revolution. Haven't found anything old yet. Here's some crude plywood in more recent times:

http://cubasurf.ca/cubasurf/surf-inform ... ng-in-cuba

Last Summer on the old paipo forum, Mr. Mike shared these pics of his marlin board. amed01.jpg amed02.jpg I saw it again recently on Joe Tabler's Surf Blurb, and I got to thinking about the Yeo boards. Perhaps Yeo made these boards for a hotel or resort named Mediterranea. The basic stencil text is ...

I've had the snow toy version known as a Ziffy-Whomper. They are still sold new at sporting goods stores around here in the Winter. Irving M. Ziff patented the Ziffy-Board about 6 years before he patented the Ziffy-Whomper. The snow version has bent handles to keep your hands safe from the ground. T...

Make one board without any stringers or glue joints. Make the other board with redwood 1/2's glued on each rail. Then compare the flex.

Bump. I'm surprised there's only 15 views so far, and I wonder how many of those clicked on the link. There's some really good stuff there. I hadn't heard of bending the nose kick on a ladder before...a dozen at a time. I've long suspected that the dimensions of the little surfboards were driven by ...

While looking for more vintage boards in Ocean City, I came across some guys currently making paipos and handplanes at Roots Surf Craft in Ocean City, NJ. Check out their blog at http://www.rootssurfcraft.com/

A variant of the Goldfish template appears on Nantucket in 1932. In this one the handles are cut outs that make the eyes of the fish. It looks like the board has wood grain. http://www.flickr.com/photos/nantuckethistoricalassociation/3303483731/ Flickr caption: Constance Viola Greene Haroldson (1906...

The Surfing Museum article has a link to the British Museum. Three photos and no side view. Badly distorted by the camera. The nose looks twice as wide at the tail...when it's really just two inches wider. http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/search_object_details.asp...

A combo sand, snow, or surf board from the April 1966 issue of Popular Mechanics:

http://books.google.com/books?id=J9QDAA ... rd&f=false

I have a similar board in my collection. I'm not certain if it's cork on the inside. The fabric has an internal stich on one side of the board, and hand-stiched on the outside of the other half of the board (at the rail.) The knob handles don't turn.

Not postmarked, but it is an old style linen card. I can only guess at these handled surf craft, and I'm going with cork and painted canvas. Similar to an old life preserver. Cork sheets were commonly used for insulation before the advent of spun glass insulation and polyurethane foam. The linen (te...

At a different museum...the Mingei, a Carl Ekstrom two part chair was exhibited. Both parts looked very ridable. Keep in mind that it was made in 1970....around the birth of the sponge bellyboard. Here's a link. Scroll down and click on the thumnails of the red chair. http://hydrodynamica.blogspot.c...

There's an interesting old board that made the journey from Hawaii to a museum in London. Is it the mother of what we sometimes call a Cornish style board? There are some similarities....13 inches wide and tapering back to a an 11 inch square tail with amply rounded corners. Keep those measurments i...

Haven't made it by yet. Here's some more info:

http://loft9gallery.wordpress.com/

It depends on what you mean by sealing. A sealer can just be a thinned down version of the finish paint or varnish that you want to use. I've also used hemp or linseed oil as a primer coat under oil-based varnish. I like the fast-drying Minwax Polyurethane...mainly for the way it sands between coats...

Girls in the woodshop. Oh my gawd! Someone is letting girls into the woodshop. Really overdue if you ask me. The Liquid Salt article provides a link to her website: http://whomphandplanes.tumblr.com/ I like her paipo. Sure the template is similar to your basic 1928 Popula Science Crescent Tail... ht...

Ahhh....a Durban shark biscuit. I'll take it it if no one else really must have it.

When I started making my Royal Egyptian Cubit Boards, I reached back several thousand years to give Bobhotep of Buto credit for pioneering that style of board. I made up my own History about how he was a scribe for a small construction company...small tombs that is. He was travelling from Buto to Ca...