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Is there a special sandwich for the drop knee riders? I'm also curious about putting the panel stringer on the bottom. Surely people must have ridden the boards upside down, but have there been any customs with the bump on the bottom? I thinking of something like an edge board, or a stepped-bottom b...

More layers would mean more glue joints, and a difference in stiffness. I haven't discussed this with Dave. The length issue was either mentioned on his blog or newsletter. The constraint was the availability of the 1/2 inch cork in longer lengths. Longer 1/2 inch cork could be too expensive. I thin...

That raises the question...what length blank are you looking for?

Right now I think Dave is working on the backlog for his production boards. Maybe down the road he can make some longer blanks. It might involve more layers, because the stuff that comes in rolls is thinner.

Sure thing. Did you have any particular shape in mind? The current blanks are 47 x 23 inches.

As of this writing there are still 2 openings left in the Bodypo shaping class at the California Surfcraft factory in San Rafael. Who knows what sort of custom boards will emerge from this Cork Think Tank. I'm already signed up, are any of you? http://californiasurfcraft.com/products/bodypo-shaping-...

The split rail sounds like double horizontal. rail fins. Definitely needs its own thread.

The Insanity is 42.5 inches long, and the wide point is 19 inches up from the tail. So sort of piggy.

Some of you take the fins out of your board, and ride it finless. Then you're riding a finless board that was designed to be ridden with fins. I propose a different approach to fins vs finless comparisons. Start with a board that was designed to be finless, and then add fins. Pictured below is a fin...

That's pretty cool! How well did it surf? Did it making taking off easier? Oops, I never answered those questions. It took off and rode just fine. It was actually a wooden wakeboard, so it had a continuous rocker. That and the round tail made it easy to steer through the crowds. My main goals were ...

Five times Soulglider wrote: STILL, its a bitchin' looking experiment, nice job. I don't think that was intentional. Maybe he was just face down on the keyboard there for a while. Tomas, back to the McKee style set up on the Manta...are the rear fins farther forward then Bruce's formula? Did you mov...

I've read that the rear fins can be more vertical in this kind of set up, and it looks that way in the photos. Do you have measured numbers on the difference in cant?

I imagine this fin arrangement has been done on kneeboards. Are there any previous examples of it on a paipo or sponge?

The seller is a former roommate of Gordon Theiz. He says he hasn't spoken to Gordon in decades. The board has been relisted at $450. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-California-Paipoboard-Belly-Board-Surfing/281883511951?_trksid=p2047675.c100011.m1850&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%...

That link from the main Interviews page to the questionaire doesn't stand out very well Maybe it needs a graphic or picture. Something that would get the attention of older guys, like Clara Bow at the beach.

It's tricky, because Ebay doesn't want you to exchange emails through their messaging system. They have software to prevent that. I usually ask people to Google paipo interviews (rather than paipo forum.) On the interview page there's a link for people to submit their story. That might be what Rod d...

I saw this handled board on ebay today (link at bottom.) calpaipo01.jpg calpaipo02.jpg I asked the seller if he knew who shaped the board, and he replied: Myself and 2 room mates, no one famous but we should have been. With a little bit of advice from Hoby Alter (begrudingly) So Rod...Bob..is this s...

Early in the thread you mentioned a forked nose. Have you considered something more subtle, like the crescent nose on the Turbo Z?

http://www.vintagebodyboards.com/item.asp?ID=059

About a dozen years ago, I made my own monstrosity out of foam and plywood. I was trying to add flotation to a wood skimboard, while still retaining a thin rail. Basically an oblong cut of boogie board glued onto the wood skimboard with contact cement. I can't find a decent photo of it. Just a dista...

Ebay auction ended without bidders, and the boards were relisted.

I was just tripping on the Waylo. It doesn't seem like it was really a dozen years ago.

http://vagabondsurf.com/WayloPage2.html

What weight of fiberglass cloth?