Plan of Procedure

Emily Holt
Plan of Procedure
SHAPING
1) Safety: wear dust mask and goggles at all times
2) Set up stands
3) Create template
- Trace onto cardboard
- take nose, center and tail measurements and connect them with a curve
- cut out template
4) Check blank to make sure the foam isn’t twisted
5) check to make sure stringer is strait
6) trace template onto blank
7) Cut out blank rough template with hand saw
8) set block planer on ¼ of an inch and plane bottom of board

Rocker:
1) Entry rocker, use surfoam to take down the nose of th board to desired thickness
2) make sure this is a continuous smooth curve over the nose of the board.
3) Tail Rocker, Use surfoam to take down the tail of the board to desired thickness

Rail Bands:
1) make dots on thickness of the board ¼” and ½” and 2 inches and 4 inches in from rails.
2) connect the first dots, 2” and ¼” using surfoam
3) connect the second dots, 4” and ½”, using surfoam

Top:
1) Use surfoam to take off top layer of foam on deck
2) be sure not to protrude too far into the deck because the foam gets softer and this isn’t good for the deck of the board because this is where your feet are going to be, (will cause the most damage)
3) make the deck flow, take down nose to desired thickness

Rails:
1) do 20 swipes with sand paper, from nose to tail to round the rails
2) repeat 3 times (both rails of board)

Fine Sanding:
1) sand entire board using 60 grit
2) sand entire board using 80 grit
3) sand entire board using 100 or 120 grit

(( during the entire shaping process take down stringer using mini hand block planer.. the foam surrounding will only go down as far as the stringer is))

*Shape like water*

GLASSING
Bottom
1) unroll cloth and lay across bottom of board
2) cut cloth to 6’
3) cut cloth all around surfboard at 2” from rails
4) mix fiberglass according to directions
5) pour 1/3 of glass onto board and squeegie out across surface (the board will absorb a lot of the liquid)
6) Repeat step 5 until all the mixture is used
7) tuck laps under board (the excess cloth on the rails)
8) stay with board for 20 minutes and catch drips, this will help to decrease the amount of sanding necessary later
9) wait overnight for glass to dry
10) sand any rough edges of the board

Top
((glassing the top or deck of the board is the same as the bottom but instead of one layer of cloth you use 2))
Repeat steps 1-10 on bottom glassing.

SANDING
1) Sand the entire board until smooth
2) to sand rails swipe sand paper across from nose to tail as you did shaping the board
3) sand board until smooth

FINS
1) Refer to fin drawing for measurements and information
2) Measure 1’ from nose of board and 1’ from tail
3) connect these points with a strait eddge ( this line is now at the proper angle for the fin)
4) draw line for center fin 2” up from tail
5) use fin box router to cut holes for fin boxes
6) mix 2 ounces of fiberglass
7) pour ½ ounce of fiber glass into fin box hole and place fin box in the hole, wipe away excess glass from board
8) repeat step 7 for all three fin boxes
9) let dry over night
10) put fins into boxes

DONEEE !!!! =)