Feb
02
Wow! When did it get to be February! So we are going to finish the construction of our componetized wakesurfs. As you remember it had a hybrid fabric on the top comprised of carbon fiber and kevlar. We had some issues with that lamination, but nothing that will prevent completeing that build and testing the …
Feb
01
Ok so while not really a failure, this next step in our wakesurfer build did NOT go well. We were out wakesurfing and videoing James Walker on the slab style board and documenting that build, so we should really refresh everyone’s memory here. We are building a composite sandwich wakesurfer but isolating the components and …
Nov
02
Do you ride backside switch yet? It’s one of the ealier tricks you should be learning! It’s something that you can do, even as a beginner! We’ve noticed that very few folks even attempt this orientation, perhaps simply because they aren’t aware they can? Not really sure, but it’s a great way to add some …
Oct
19
Well we’d rather be wakesurfing, but it doesn’t pay the bills! While we are working and NOT going to the lake, that gives us some time to focus on building our wakesurf board. We are using some Unidirectional Carbon Fiber tape along the rails of this board for a couple of reasons. First a little …
Oct
18
It’s not been a great year, so far. Not that it was a bad year by any means, just not stellar. I mean there were certainly pockets of joy, but also some struggles. This past weekend the family got a chance to go out with a few friends and do some wakesurfing and it was …
Oct
17
We launched today in the rain and wind, but by late morning it calmed down. It was fun, the sun was warm and the water not too cold, perfect for some wakesurfing with almost no other boats on the lake. We’ll be back to some wakesurf board building in short order, for now, some wakesurfing …
Oct
15
So the wakesurf board is out of the bag and ready to attach the deck side carbon fiber. The bottom and deck side of the wakesurf board will also receive a layer of bamboo. We are going to finish the carbon fiber first and then add the bamboo and final external layer of fiberglass. We …
Oct
14
We shaped our wakesurfer and next up for this wakesurf boards is to start the lamination. We have some special order Carbon Fiber, so we are taking things slow and making lots of notes! We start the process of laminating the carbon fiber using an improvised wet out table. It’s a sheet of old vacuum …
Oct
13
In the last post we took you through the process of shaping the outline and foil and then marking the rail bands for shaping the rails. We’ve completed the shaping of the board, we didn’t detail the shaping of the bottom concave mostly because we forgot! Principally we used the plane to hack out some …
Oct
12
You have to know that we’ll be making a wakesurf board or two this winter. In this current build, we have some new foam we are testing, plus we are making some changes in the location of the apex and with that, certain changes to the overall shape of the wakesurf board. Thre are certain …
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