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Diy wood paddle board kit. So how do you build a wooden paddle board. Choose the sup that suits your needs best. A year or so ago i made a big mistake. You lay out the glass on the board and cut so that it overhangs by about 3 inches and wraps around the underside in a snug fit.
The kits either had goofy construction techniques or the shapes were boxy and unappealing. Cnc cut kits allow you to build a beautiful hollow wooden stand up paddleboard. 9 6 stu s surf sup. The kaholo is a kit produced by chesapeake light craft clc a well known manufacturer of small boat kits.
A diy adventure building your own paddleboard by pat grubb. Step 2 cover the frame with strips of wood. I created this wiki style set of building tutorials for customers building my paddleboard kits and plans but anyone is free to use them. Surfboard kits and building supplies.
12 orca sup 1 2 lake superior. 11 0 malco performance sup. Pictured below are the finished boards based on our fishbone framing kit shapes. The full kit consist of forms wood manual fiberglass epoxy gloves varnish and every thing you will need.
I picked up a copy of wooden boat magazine which contained an article on how to build the kaholo a wooden stand up paddleboard sup. Welcome and thanks for checking out clearwood paddleboards website. The basic steps are you laminate the board do a hot coat to fill the weave of the cloth and then finish with a gloss coat to make the board shiny. Our 10 10 surf sup shape is inspired by our love of longboard surfing and our 8 4 surf sup shapes have proven to be a great performers for those interested in riding hollow wood sup s in the surf.
Longboards fish boards performance boards sups paddle cat eco. The tutorials are listed in the order they are completed with links to helpful videos tools and shop made jigs i use when building boards. We love the way this board performs in varied conditions with enough stability to both knee paddle and prone paddle. I wanted a wood board with the shape performance of a foam board.
When i decided to build my first wood paddleboard i was not satisfied with the sup kits already available. The individual steps are covered in much greater detail. The wood strips are full length western red cedar along with mahogany and basswood accent strips. Laminating is akin to tailoring.
See our frame kit details. Step 1 assemble the internal frame. Glassing a wood paddle board can be a bit intimidating if you haven t worked with fibreglass and epoxy before but it is really quite simple. We also offer full kits and custom boat in a box kits either of which will provide everything you need to build your own sup.
Our kits use the strip feather method of construction shared by many of the.