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Nothing beats the feeling of riding a wooden surfboard you’ve built yourself There’s nothing like the ride, feel and experience of an authentic wooden surfboard . . . and when you’ve built that board yourself, with skills that will stay with you for life, nothing beats the feeling. Tree to Sea Australia offers 3 day workshops enabling you to build your own wooden board and give you the skills to build many more. Our wooden boards are environmentally friendly, and the feeling of riding one . . . incredible! Our unique construction method utilising sustainable plantation Paulownia timber, delivers a flexible, buoyant, manoeuvrable board that’s as good to ride as it is to own. Longboards, shortboards, retros and classics - made by you with a little help from Tree to Sea Australia. See web site for workshop dates.Workshops are held in Mt. Eliza, Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia. Tree to Sea Workshop Gift Vouchers are available Robert 0409 211 751 Gary 0423 804 975 info@treetosea.com.au Wooden Surfboard Workshops The goodness of wood. Plantation grown timber. No fibreglass. No foam. No resins. Just wood (and glue). Keeping our environmental splash to a minimum. www.treetosea.com.au I found the manual that came with the kit excellent until it was time to do the rails… The manual suggested that I could just glue them on, but I couldn’t get them to fi t the rocker of the board. After some deliberation, and a few emails to Dave at Surfi ng Green, I decided to make the rails out of several pieces of wood instead of one single length. In the end each layer of rail was made up of about four short lengths of timber. I changed the lengths of these bits of wood for each layer so that the joins were not always in the same spot. I had a lot of trouble getting the rails in position around the nose - due to the profile of the board the clamps didn’t stay in position, so I had to hot glue some scrap wood to the rails so that the clamps could fi nd purchase. I also employed the same technique I had used on the tail and glued the rails at the nose in two stages. Again, I found clamps where the best thing to hold the rails in position whilst the glue dried. Finally, it was time to start shaping! I had neglected to make any shaping racks, but we have an old lathe bed in the back yard which with a couple of bits of scrap timber makes a pretty good rack. I did the initial rough shaping with a belt sander, but had a few issues with it scarring the wood so I soon transitioned to a finishing sander. To get the tail shape I had to use a file and do some hand sanding. Once the shaping was complete, the whole board was finish sanded by hand. I’d decided early on that I wanted to decorate the board using pyrography and so was fairly excited to see it at a stage where I could begin burning! Having limited experience I chose a design which just required dark lines and no shading. Liking what I saw, I started getting nervous about ruining my hard work when I tried to glass it, so opted to get it done professionally by Mark at Mid Coast Surf. Aside from convincing me to go for glassed on fi ns, he also suggested using a bridge for the leg-rope instead of a leash plug. He did a fantastic job. The advantage of using a professional was I could get feedback on my shaping. Being the nice guy he is, Mark said he was surprised it was a first attempt, but recommended improving the rail shape and having a little less concave on the next one. The whole process took me about 18 months to complete, but generally I was only working on weekends, and quite often not for very long periods on those weekends. When Franchesca was finally finished, the crew were all in Costa Rica on a trip, and unfortunately my brother managed to do his Achilles tendon the day before her maiden surf, so - as with the construction - it was just Francesca and I. I was pretty lucky with the surf conditions - she was ready for the first offshore day in about a month, with clean 2 to 3 foot swell. She grabbed onto a rock, causing some slight bruising on a fin, but we had a pretty good session. I’d say we’re still getting to know each other but the initial signs were positive. She even whistles when she likes a turn! For anyone considering building their own board, I highly recommend it. It’s very rewarding to surf something you have made! Thanks to Dave from Surfing Green, who was great with advice the whole way through. Congrats Demetrius! We're sure this tale will be an inspiration to other home surfboard builders, and we're also sure you'll enjoy the waves with Franchesca for years to come! Flying on Franchesca 104 SMORGASBOARDER | CHRISTMAS <strong>2014</strong>
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