With a design made and printed out on the engineering plotter printer (so cool!), my dream of making a hollow wood SUP is finally coming alive! The design is meant to be a 12' 6" flatwater board that will hopefully end up fast. With hollow wood, the construction is very similar to that of an airplane wing. There is an internal frame (the spine and ribs)and an outer 'skin' of wood covered in fiberglass to finish it up. The goal is to make a successful design so that I can teach a class on it here at school next year.
Today in the shop, I had the pleasure of gluing the template onto the wood for cutting. with enough wood glue on my hand to occupy me in class for a few hours, I moved on to cutting out the 'ribs'. That took some time, but I finally have something to show for my work!
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