Fairing the planshape on the new 12 foot Resolute Salmon

Preliminary fairing of the planshape completed, this board is going to be very sweet, there's a nice flex response, and a great resonance. The volume, weight, and thickness seem very promising in the hands.

Resolute Salmon 12 footer: cutting out the planshape

Handsawing 24 feet of laminated wooden rail:

Cutaway spitfire fin for the Future Primitive 12 foot pintail

Some preliminary foiling, the fin is 12 inches deep by 3/4" thick, 6 layers of paulownia

Resolute Salmon 12 foot surfboard construction continued.. .. .

Here's the first frame and rail block layer being glued to the deck this evening:

The Resolute Salmon 12 foot paulownia wood surfboard

The double diagonal deck panel and first internal frame and rail block panel for the new Resolute Salmon 12 foot paulownia wood surfboard prior to being being laminated together.

We rebuilt the rocker jig after dismantling it and refining the curve, now the lamination starts, extra strong construction so that the board has the weight we are after ( about 40 pounds ) to give it more drive and penetration

Om174 Hz wave gliding wooden olo surfboard

Om 174 Hz wave gliding wooden olo surfboard

Blocks and frames internal panel for 12 foot surfboard

Iconoclastic wave tools. . . .

Iconoclastic: Greek for "image-breaking", is the deliberate destruction within a surfing culture of the culture's own religious hood ornament icons and other symbols of noseriding or pop outs

People who engage in or support surfing iconoclasm are called surficonoclasts, a heroic term that has come to be applied figuratively to any brave person who breaks or disdains established surfing dogmata or ignorant conventions.

Conversely, people who revere or venerate surfing myths and legends are called stupid iconolaters. In a Byzantine context they are known as duped iconodules or performance iconophiles , they can often be identified by their frequent use of the word 'Simmons'

adapted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iconoclasm

A surfing iconoclast :

13 footer Pipeline Challenge board update

Here she is, the 'Queen of Diamonds' Future Primitive at Rhino's place in Honolulu, ready to go with the new fin.

Resolute Salmon 12 footer under construction

We're building three of these paulownia 12 foot Resolute Salmon tunnel fin plus one surfboards, one for Garrett Mc Namara, one for a Great Lakes surfer and one for ourselves as we have retired the original redwood 'Salmon' for a while.

The Resolute Salmon has been clocked at over 30mph in average head high beach break conditions, and is a brilliant paddler for hunting down those shifting peaks and catching them early. The board is equippped with a 6 inch diameter tunnel and a cutaway spitfire fin.

Here's an internal panel for the first one being constructed from paulownia today: