Fish Bones...

I won’t write much but will say that final designs for the inner structure and blank are only hours away, so pretty excited... when I get time to complete the final few hours of work is yet to be determined.

Frame details:

Density= 0.0000004 kg/mm^3
Volume= 8160994.662 mm^3
Mass= 3.264 kg
Surface Area= 1780029.383 mm^2

Center Of Mass (& Volume); with respect to the Global Coordinate System:

X= 1486.6 mm (total length aprox. 3m)
Y= 0.0 mm
Z= 54.6 mm

The total weight of the blank before any deck/bottom profiles and rails are in shaped stands at around the 23kg dependent on material. I am expecting the final weight (without glass) to fall down below 20kg.

The overall design for the skin has diversified eliminating the 45 degree slats to reduce the degree of dificulty in building the board. You may also notice that the inner structure has also been modified for similar reasons. My brother in-law is talking with a friend that owns a Carpenter’s shop and he seems willing to help out with the procuring of material, maybe even the use of machines such as bench drills that will greatly improve the quallity of the finished product.

Useful Links: By the way, thankyou for all the GREAT comments in the post below... noting the sarcasm! Now some links that I want to save; the first few give a good idea of the building process:

• Wood_waverider - First hollow wooden board (picture heavy)
• Robbo's Hollow Wooden Pics
• Paul Jensen - Lets here the construction Process
• Channels on longer boards
• Cberryh2o - Noserider nose - if not concave, then what?
• Paul Jensen - Hollow Board Builders...
• Meatball – Building decoritive wood core longboard fins.