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Hewey's wood thread - Making a Paipo p20 |
kroozzn62
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Posts: 122 |  Posted: 2010-03-18 05:19 am Permalink
looks good dude , yeah take it for a boogie down ..
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hewey
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| Posted: 2010-03-22 03:45 am Permalink
No update on the board, but yesterday I went to a car show on the coast then went for a 22 mile ride along the coast 
First of all heres my bike with Squiz's HR Holden. Squiz is a fellow tiki nut who loves his old cars, and hes headed over to Viva Las Vegas soon - lucky bastard!
And just a sample of the scenery from the ride Lovely weather eh?
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surfintiki
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| Posted: 2010-03-22 4:57 pm Permalink
What? Australia with SMALL waves. I don't buy it. It's a fake pic!
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hewey
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| Posted: 2010-03-23 04:06 am Permalink
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On 2010-03-22 16:57, surfintiki wrote:
What? Australia with SMALL waves. I don't buy it. It's a fake pic!
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The Alaia board is still in the same state, but with the weather getting colder Ive decided to hook into my first Paipo (hawaiian bellyboard), particularly given Ive got this week off
So I printed off a template, stuck it together and trimmed it. I then transfererd this to 3mm MDF to make a more rigid template
Cut the mdf out with a jigsaw, sanded it down to get nice smooth lines.
Transfer this to the Paulownia wood blank
Final shape. Its reccomended that you leave an inch or so on the base so you can continue your shaping past the 'end' of the board to get nice clean lines.
Next step is cut in the rails and a concave in the bottom with a hand plane, shape the nose, final sand then varnish. Plan is to take it for a surf by the end of the week
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surfintiki
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| Posted: 2010-03-23 5:07 pm Permalink
Yeah! Bring it!
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teaKEY
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| Posted: 2010-03-23 5:08 pm Permalink
Making a Paipo- Sounds so dirty
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seeksurf
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| Posted: 2010-03-23 5:41 pm Permalink
Hewey I'm still digging the Alaia board! I love to try that sucker down under in
some warm water.
Cool Peewee bike. I have a beach bike but is old and rusty. That Beach pic look
allot like the PMW. Not the inland shot though.
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hewey
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| Posted: 2010-03-23 11:48 pm Permalink
Thanks Surfintiki, TeaKEy and Seeksurf
Hooked in and got a bunch done on the board today. Here you can see the concave in the middle and the rails at the side ready for shaping
View from the top
Final shape, still needed final sanding at this stage
Nose of the board shaped. just needs to be smoothed out a little
Woohoo, sanding is done, time for some marine grade varnish. Love how it brings out the colour and grain in the wood
Pretty happy with how it looks
Shot of the end gives you an idea of the profile, lurvely caurves eh?
mmmmm, wood
I had to get an arty shot in 
Just needs a couple more coats of varnish and she's good to surf.
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pdrake
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| Posted: 2010-03-24 12:17 am Permalink
hewey, you should really glass that. at least with one coat of light glass.
looks cool, too.
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Paipo
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| Posted: 2010-03-24 01:42 am Permalink
Sweet curves and that end profile looks pretty functional hewey...you gotta get someone to get a pic of you riding it in some hibiscus print boardies! 5mm of rubber all the way over here as of this week... 
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hewey
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| Posted: 2010-03-24 04:44 am Permalink
Thanks Pdrake. Theres a bunch of guys who do Paulownia wood Alaia and Paipo boards (like Tom Wegener, Surfing Green etc) and they only coat their boards in Linseed Oil. The Paulownia is really salt water resistant, which is why its ideal for board making (plus its light). The varnish wont be as strong as a glassed board, but I'll only be taking it on small beach brakes for now so it should be fine.
Heya Paipo! Yeh, when you buy the blank they include a booklet on shaping the board including the rails and concave section, helps counter the lack of fins. Ive just bought myself a Go Pro waterproof camera, so will be hoping to get some cool action shots in the future (prob next summer )
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seeksurf
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| Posted: 2010-03-24 8:32 pm Permalink
Hell ya! that sucker looks great nice job. looks like fun project.
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Tikilizard
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Posts: 369 | Posted: 2010-03-25 09:33 am Permalink
Sweet board! Love the bike.
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eric 21
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Posts: 112 | Posted: 2010-03-25 10:41 am Permalink
frenchy old school bike !!!!lol idem
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hewey
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| Posted: 2010-03-26 12:12 am Permalink
Thanks Seeks, Lizard and Eric
Added a leash for good measure and went surfing today The basics boil down to I suck (hey, Ive never surfed anything before), I caught 3 decent waves, and I had a good time. As you can see the weather was pretty special too
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