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Here it is all finished up. A lot more foam than I'm used to from what I've been riding the past couple years. Pretty happy the way it came out just need to work on my foiling and getting my rails thinner.

Nice!

What is the thickness?

2.75 out at the rails 2.5 in the center just guessing. I don't have calipers but I need to get these rails thinner. Have had it out for 3 sessions and it's pretty fast but I'm have trouble sinking the rail. Only been going prone.

I've been giving thought to how to get some volume generally, but have a scoop deck and not too much thickness in the rail.

Nice job, Pes. What kind of deck pad is that?

It's a cove pad, I really like not having to keep waxing the whole board and you can adjust your position and be locked in. Bob thats the problem I'm finding I can't figure out how to thin out the rail without going into where I want to have the deck scooped out.

I was wondering if the deck pad was a Cove Pad... it does not look like the current formulation of deck pads.

It's the new stuff maybe because the grooves aren't colored it looks like the old pads.

Rail thickness....more than one way to skin a cat. Hint: Not all volume needs to be removed from deck to achieve desired rail profile. The G5 is coming....

Nomastomas,

nomastomas wrote:Rail thickness....more than one way to skin a cat. Hint: Not all volume needs to be removed from deck to achieve desired rail profile. The G5 is coming....

So are you thinking deep concaves, some sort of creative rail line or something else?

Bob

I hope to get the G5 prototype blank from Marko this week or next week, at the latest. I'll post some photos in a separate thread. But, one lesson here is that the shaper (amateur or pro) must always consider the shape as a whole, noting how all of the design features inter-relate. Pes' statement that he needs to "figure out" how to reconcile a thin rail shape with high overall board volume demonstrates this thought process. He's got it...

I don't know about Pes, but the added criteria is not having much thickness up front. I can see how a more even foil would allow more readily for volume increase.

I look forward to the new thread.

I think I need to do this again.

http://mypaipoboards.org/forum3/downloa ... &mode=view

Having trouble uploading at the "office"

Looks like going a bit wider will help get my rail profile a bit better because I tend to do too much in a short amount of space. Looking using a Marko wake skate blank on the next one. Going to have to wait a bit to do it though, if I can control myself.

Hadn't seen the Wake Skate blank before. Great for our purposes. Nice rockers and nice thickness. Very close tolerance...just take off a little here and a little there. I like shaping the 2lb stuff, its my goto density for EPS. Finishes pretty nice. Do you know how much crown there is in the deck of the blank? Or, how thick the rails are, say, 2" in from the outline? I put most of my thickness out there, so it would be good to know.

I emailed them this afternoon, waiting to here back.

Nomas here is their email back to me. On their Instagram there are a couple of posts with the blanks






Hi Paul,

It is a sled cut style blank with a flat deck and square rails but it is still a form molded blank. We have both a thick and regular version of the blank so if you wanted a closer tolerance the regular is the one I would suggest. We can do a custom rocker as well as long as its not to radically different from what the natural rocker is.

Marko now has a 3D viewer so you can see the blank from any angle https://markofoamblanks.com/collections ... rf-regular
Looks like the "Wake Skate" blank is the same thickness out to the rail, which would make pretty it versatile, allowing either a crowned deck, flat or concave. Pretty cool for our purposes.

I like that feature, now you could actually "see" the blank.

Ordering a blank tomorrow. Instead of shaping in one day, I'm going to take two weekends to shape the board. Take my time doing it rough out the blank first weekend and finish it up the following weekend.