look what i made!

[skimhumboldt?]

i stripped an old broken longboard and made this. Its 54" by 20" and about 1 1/2" thick. the other boards my old vic fomie vac, 2002 i think. the board rides 1000x better than my vic, its not too fast but i floats like non other, so if i get to a wave with absolutly no speed, i can still wrap it. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v218/doom55555/newskim1.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v218/doom55555/newskim2.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v218/doom55555/newskim3.jpg

[Pack A Bowl]

hahha thats pretty cool

[idrathrbskimmin]

sweet. Thats a big board. How heavy is it?

[Rockporter9]

like the maui boards

[jake]

thats really sick. hahahaha nice

[skimhumboldt?]

i dont know the exact weight but it feels about a pound lighter than my vic, my guess 4.5 lbs. It turns really well, a lot nicer than i expected. I was wrapping (acually wrapping) ankle high waves when i tryed it out the other day.

[skimhumboldt?]

oh, also theres about 3 1/4" of nose rocker and about 1/4" of tail. The boards prolly not going to last too long because theres a lot of glassing flaws in it ( its my first board, and working with fiberglass is a bitch) but my next board going to be perfection, i got glassing down to a science now.

[Rockporter9]

cool, nice job man. I'd probably screw the whole thing up. good luck on the next one, should come out perfect.

[noah lane]

looks fun for liners

[Richard]

am i seeing a stringer in there?

[oicdn]

That's sick as hell....how fast is it compared to your vic...i.e. does it keep speed fairly well?

[mattyb]

looks good for surfing on!

[doug]

you should surf that thing in some mushy waves it would be crazy

[flskimboarder]

thats awesome dude...keep it up. when my fish goes bad thats what i am thinking about doing with mine and we'll see how that does.

[KrisStone]

Yea it kinda looks a little lopsided i wonder if you could still surf it and manuever it like a skim?

[skimhumboldt?]

yes that is a stringer, since its from a longboard the stringers 1/4" thick. my boards super stiff. ive never tested the flex with carbon, so i couldnt really compare it to that though

[727bryon]

Cool man. Great idea.

[AerialSkimmerBrad]

Thats cool, cool thing on how it all worked out and everything, must look pretty weird skimmin with it.. Id like to see some pics..

[Teddy Hartford]

some guy i saw in santa cruz had built some boards like that he could get great float on the siders.

[skimnczach]

good luck with pressure dings

[didj prophet]

that looks pretty sick, me and my buddies had that idea back when i lived in slo but we never got around to it, seems like it would be a lot of fun to screw around on, im gonna have to see if i can find a cheap old longboard on craigslist to try that with, how long did it take you to make that thing?

[skimhumboldt?]

of an on, 3 weeks, all i shaped it with is a hand surffoarm, sandpaper and a ruler. most of the shaping was making the bottom of the board flat and srtipping the previous glass off of it. glassing it took about a week with all the layers, but you could prolly do it in about 3 or 4

[TheRealVortex]

dont sideslip unless u wanna fall.

[junwin]

i always wondered if a surfboard could be turned into a skimboard

nice job that would have taken some effort

[jake]

junnwwweeeeeeeeeennn

[skimhumboldt?]

like i said, it skims really well. i can slide slip and pump with it

[eastcoasthurl]

you can wrap ankle high waves......

[skimhumboldt?]

my bad, i exaggerated, they were about knee high (a little smaller)

[HumboldtSkim]

my bad, i exaggerated, they were about knee high (a little smaller)

hahahaha i didn't know you could wrap....

[idrathrbskimmin]

bump

[flskimboarder]

way to bring up a 5month old thread.

[Derek Makekau]

don't drag up old threads.