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Thank you all for the positive comments :) it's very nice to see there are so many people interested in building their own surfcraft. We as a whole rely too much on people pumping out plastic goods...

Such beautiful work, I love it. Inspiring me to build a CBG, thank you for the existence of this thread!
Jack

Now that the rails are down we need to clean off the glue to make an easier surface to shape.

We removed the tape holding the rails down during glue drying and set the board up on a couple of...

Now we have a square-railed structure looking somewhat like a surfboard, we're ready to start laminating rail strips to give the rails some meat to shape into.

We used a template to cut each strip...

From this point it gets exciting. It all starts coming together and looking like a surfboard, so it's time to fix the deck skin to the frame.

After the vent in the skin is cleaned up we laminated...

This isn't the printed frame build, but we forgot to take a photo of the ventilation system (although it is the same process). This is to allow the board to 'breathe' when its not in use.

So we...

Once the frame is stuck down we glue some blocks into the frame for fins, ventilation, a leash plug and the tail.

We started with the tail block so we marked a line from the apex of the swallow to...

Once that's together it's time to start preparing the hull for laminating.
We mark the template onto the panel (deck and hull panels are 1820 x 580 x 5mm) and cut it out using a box knife. Paulownia...

Once the rocker jig is assembled we build our frame, making sure that all the tabs on the ribs fit nice and snugly in to their respective slots..

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Now for the frame assembly..

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Hi all,

My names Jack and I've decided to post a documentation of a paulownia hollow wooden surfboard (HWS) built using a printed template.

My Dad and I build timber surfboards and sell timber...

Hi Dabbler.
Apologies for interjecting; perhaps then you'd be able to help me with sourcing a strip of ironbark, also being from the Gold Coast?
Maybe PM if you have anything you're willing to part...

Beautiful piece Ball Peen. I love the grain in the rosewood body. I'm thinking of making a tenor cigar box from paulownia and this thread has inspired action! :2tsup:

Still not sure about whether...

Dusteater, such a beautiful piece, the inlays look fantastic. I'm sure the photos don't do it justice either.
I'll post some photos of my next build when i can get around to documenting it :)

Hi John,
Yep Geoff's my Dad so I'm sure we may well have crossed paths somewhere along the lifespan of Dovetail. I work closely with him in the factory. Handy having a good mentor for builds, those...

It's exciting to be amongst such an informative forum of which so many members are proactive.
I'm a 21 year old from the Gold Coast and work alot with Paulownia, grown and milled in northern NSW,...