This is beautiful, great lines. What a great mix surfboard creation/riding is. You create a work of art and then ride it. Like Da Vinci creating the Mona Lisa and then ridin...hang on though.. not exactly like that, but you know what I mean
Very nice Scotty..What are the dementions?...I betcha can't wait to see if it floats you.. 
It looks like single concave feeding into a double barrel and the a slight v in the tail...Right?
BTW..I was checking out the new 10'6" Kalama yesterday and it has no v at all.. 
Just a single concave running all the way through with it's deepest where your standing...Interesting.
Keep the pics coming.
DJ
It's 9'3" x 29.75" x 4.25".
Thanks for the mona lisa...
It's not entirely perfect but not bad for its size, bigger boards are a lot harder to sahpe in I am suprised how long it has taken me. I think it will float me ok DJ, its quite thick on the forward rail and quite wide overall. Time will tell but.
Hey Scotty, glassing and sanding are all part of the fun of board making. I reckon V is a very important part of SUP design, especially for the waves, it makes the rail to rail transitions easier.
Nice flat deck keeps the volume out near the rails, the shadows look clean. Go surf it.
Rod
So u fully hand shaped it?
We did that with our first board and it does take awhile.
But we our latest ones we use AKU shaper.
The guy owns his machine only spends 20 minutes on the board shaping it when it gets off the machine.
So if u wanna save time if u make another one have a muck around on the program.
P.S Glassing is the best bit of it.
Thanks Ben Dover
My first board I had machined but felt embarassed telling people. My next board I did from scratch but made a hell of a mess, as I don't have a shaping bay. At the moment I'm designing a downwinder and I thought in order to save my marriage I better get it machined.
Clarky
Yep its got v in the tail, maybe unable to see it in the photos.
Thanks Ben,
I acutally designed the outline on an old winsurfing board design program called DAT. I used the software to give me measurements of widths and i drew them onto the blank and temples to draw the outline. Other than that and an electric plainer, its all by hand. The guy that owns the shaping bay helped me with the concave and vee.
I would be interested in finding out more about the CNC machine and how much it would cost to have a blank machined?
Reagrds,
Scotty
Hey,
I agree, prefer machined. Only shaped by hand as it was the quickest way from a to b. So do you have the contact who does it?
live in wollongong .guys in sydney only have small machine .looking at doing a run of boards . 12' 10'4" 9'6" 9'3" 8'11"
These are the AKU Machines in Australia
iSurfshapes, Sydney NSW
Woody Jack Surfboads, Gold Coast NSW
JS Industries, Tweed Heads NSW
McTavish Surfboards, Byron Bay NSW
Ocean Foam, Victoria NSW
Anyways heres a pic of me on my new board this morning.
I love how u can see all the buildings in the background up towards Surfers Paradise.
If you use BoardCad you will get access to more machines, there is a bit of bad blood with AKU and APS300.
Just search for BoardCad. It also works with Shape 3d lite which is another free surfboard design program as well as AKU or the olderAPS3000 which is not supported any more.
I have used DAT since Ver1 but stopped using it a few years back when APS 3000 became available. If you have BoardCad it will read and output to Shape3d lite and AKU. Each prog has some special features that the others don't, so depending on what I want to look at, depends on what I use.
Rod
Looks sweet so far Scotty. Look forward to seeing the finished beast.
Good luck with the rest.
