krusher74 wrote:Got the board cut out and a good percentage of the shaping done, as patrick told me with the stringers being harder wood it hard to sand it even ad not dig into the paulowina first
The key is to use a small plane with a round (not straight) cutting edge. The radius of the curve should be similar to that of a US silver dollar. The curved blade allows you to cut down the stringer without touching the softer material (foam/balsa/paulowina) Sand until you can feel the stringer, then stop and plane down just the stringer, continue sanding. Keep the blade sharp as possible. Nice little shape...there's just something aesthetically pleasing about wooden surfcraft.
Thanks for the tips, I will used that method in the future
You make a good point, but it might ignite the innovator in somebody. By the way that is a good looking board. The dark wood inserts really make the board pop.
Well by friend has tried the bodyplane but it needed a handle so i have added this for him, the evolution continues. Some rainbow webbing and a bit of recycled inner tube from the bike shop I work in
Well took it down the beach for some R&D yesterday, wanted the see if the handle was of use.
Turns out it rides great. I went out on a particularly weak local reef in waist hide waves and managed some log waves, take off like a hand plane but then once going you can pull it in and under your chest, so it really is a bodyplane.
Given it back to the owner now for him to try out the new handle.
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Well I real enjoyed shaping my first full sized paipo, and seeing I had a off cut from the blank I thought I would get some more shaping practice and make another hand/body plane
This will also give me something to have a first go at glassing on too
Few more pics of my friend riding the bodyplane, these show the extra lift over a smaller handplane and how this is not just bodysurfing, the size if the bodyplane allows you to lift your chest out of the water.
Shaped another bodyplane today from the blank off cut from the last board I did.
I use them as shaping practice, so this time I put a rail stinger in the design to have a go at that.
The blue foam and standard stringer does not shape as smooth as the green foam and old growth redwood stringer off cut I used on the last bodyplane but is quite a bit lighter.
Anybody got and good ideas on how to attach a handle to a foam board, my only idea so far is a strap attached to two leash plugs.
Glass on leash loop. There's several threads and different techniques on Swaylocks about how to do 'em.
I put one on a board I made a few years ago. Much nicer than a plastic plug.
Paipo surfer in repose,
Nose on the nose,
No grunting he-man pose.
See how fast he goes!
What is it he knows?
Put a FCS leash plug in the top with supersap epoxy. the loads of teak oil.
Here is a pic of m friend Leigh who I made it for, give you a sense of scale, its 25% of a bodyboard.
Beautiful board. That size reminded me: My friend from Hawaii told me how he and his friends--in their youth--would steal McDonald's food trays and use those as boards. And you see all the different types of Japanese and African handmade boards, & skimboards--this leads me to believe that anything works.
krusher74 wrote:My friend from Hawaii told me how he and his friends--in their youth--would steal McDonald's food trays and use those as boards. And you see all the different types of Japanese and African handmade boards, & skimboards--this leads me to believe that anything works.
True, depending on what you mean by "works. You do need to look at performance and there you will see rather dramatic differences.
good morning, I would like to take up this topic again
How have the experiences gone over these years?
have you used it a lot? I've been thinking about making a normal handplane, but I have worn out clavicles and seeing your idea made me want to become one myself too
the measurements are in red, it would be 18 long by 15.8 wide, if you notice you have roker, I have to learn how to bend the wood, this curve will be to grab the micro paipo of the nose as a bodyboard and be able to support the elbows there that is 15.8 wide, the idea is to mount 2 small keels
how about ? crazy? It would be for windy days, with the paipo shot and I thought it was interesting to try something like that
it's going to be crazy?
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buenos dias, me gustaria retomar este tema
que tal han ido las experiencias a lo largo de estos años?
lo has usado mucho? he estado pensando en hacerme un handplane normal, pero tengo las clavículas desgastadas y al ver tu idea me han entrado ganas de hacerme uno yo también
las medidas están en rojo , sería de 18 de largo por 15.8 de ancho, si te fijas tiene roker, tengo que aprender ha doblar la madera, esta curva sera para agarrar el micro paipo del nose como un bodyboard y poder apoyar los codos de ahí que sea 15.8 de ancho, la idea es montar 2 quillas pequeñas
qué te parece ? una locura? seria para días de mucho viento, con el paipo salgo disparado y me ha parecido interesante probar algo así
asier esnal wrote:good morning, I would like to take up this topic again
How have the experiences gone over these years?
have you used it a lot? I've been thinking about making a normal handplane, but I have worn out clavicles and seeing your idea made me want to become one myself too
the measurements are in red, it would be 18 long by 15.8 wide, if you notice you have roker, I have to learn how to bend the wood, this curve will be to grab the micro paipo of the nose as a bodyboard and be able to support the elbows there that is 15.8 wide, the idea is to mount 2 small keels
how about ? crazy? It would be for windy days, with the paipo shot and I thought it was interesting to try something like that
it's going to be crazy?
es
buenos dias, me gustaria retomar este tema
que tal han ido las experiencias a lo largo de estos años?
lo has usado mucho? he estado pensando en hacerme un handplane normal, pero tengo las clavículas desgastadas y al ver tu idea me han entrado ganas de hacerme uno yo también
las medidas están en rojo , sería de 18 de largo por 15.8 de ancho, si te fijas tiene roker, tengo que aprender ha doblar la madera, esta curva sera para agarrar el micro paipo del nose como un bodyboard y poder apoyar los codos de ahí que sea 15.8 de ancho, la idea es montar 2 quillas pequeñas
qué te parece ? una locura? seria para días de mucho viento, con el paipo salgo disparado y me ha parecido interesante probar algo así
será una locura?
it's not mine I build it for a friend, he was happy with how it worked.
Bodysurfing with a hand board your body is doing most of the planning work so the board is not so important. I think you have to much rocker and the fins arnt needed and would add danger.
