In this video the legend Allen White breaks down his process of shaping surfboard rails into a step by step tutorial. you can find all products used in this video and many more at: fiberglassflor...
Va beach legend. These guys are true craftsman masters. Wish I had the planer skills. Really grateful to be able to have these lessons. Alohas from the 808
I love Fiberglass Florida. I live in Melbourne and started making skimboards. The staff is knowledgeable and nice, and the place has everything I need. If you buy the Polyester resin by the 5 gallon, you essentially get one gallon free. Good place to get your stuff.
Few decades ago I was just a grom who enjoyed hanging at the Seasoned factory trying to get dusty and find my spot in the line up. A-Dubbs or Allen proposed, "Awwwe Skip! Why don't you come by my house help me do some digging." In his southern draw. I don't remember questioning what we were digging. The deal was he would let me watch him shape a surfboard if I moved some ground. Met him at his house the following day and he hands me a shovel as we walk 4'x6' piece of ground on the side of his house that soaked up leaking heating oil tank. He 's pointing at the ground as he walks over the project and waving his hand like he feeling a rail. "You gotta dig up this contaminated dirt here and down to where we can't see it or smell it!" pausing "I'll be back going shape couple surfboards." I can' tell you how long I was there or how good of a job I did. It could have been a day and some. I do remember him shaping the surfboard a high performance in the 6'2" range with double barrel concave and squash tail. It took him no more than an hour and my time was up. In hind site should have bear hugged the shaping stand to spend the rest of the day in that room with him. In those days the surfboard shapers were also the best surfers. I looked up to all of them, but the guys at the Seasoned and Tim Nolte few doors down let me find my spot and the catalyst to my surfing experience. I've enjoyed the fruits of my labor again.
Nice. Looks amazing. The tucked edge is key. Not enough and the board turns into a dog. At least that’s how it was on my 80’s style boards. My personal longboards also like an edge at least to 1/4 up from the tail. Last board I had was 10’6 with a stinger pin tail. Hard edge 1/3 up. Very fun. I saw a video called Mr Kookbox. Guy was shaping wood boards with square rails and ripping. Edge is everything unless you’re on a dedicated noserider.
Great vid. The last thing i recomend is to closely check the rocker on the bottom of the rail line to smooth out any bumps as lots of boards i find i haver to end up doing extra sanding to try and get bumps out of the rocker (especially alot of almeric boards) which is a real pain and makes the board weaker once its glassed. I feel the bumps can effect the performance some what. Cheers
@@FiberglassFlorida I've only glassed one board, and I'm about to send it on two more. It'd be awesome to see in depth vids on different glassing techniques!
@@caravanclips we will have some up in a few weeks. its hard to say when but they are coming! pigments, pin lines ,glassing in fins, laminating all that a good stuff!
There seems to be something going on with your website (fiberglassflorida. May want to check that out. (Exception printing is disabled by default for security reasons.)
Title says “HOW TO” and subject is rails but there’s not much good direction / steps or focus on the subject which is the rail. There’s more other stuff.
