On thursday I took out my board from its clamps. It hadn't retained the mould shape very well, for example i had planned to loft the kicktail by 4cm but it turned out only as 2cm. Also When one of the clamps came off, it took out a chunk of ply wood (see pics), which doesn't look too good. However Terry said i could bog it up. Otherwise I was impressed with my handiwork. Also on thursday we dismantled our moulds (Kenji first, followed by me) so we could re-use the screws, and we binned the mould pieces. I personally think that this wasn't a good idea because if our board gets destroyed or ruined we would be unable to make a new one.
On Monday I began to draw out my actual board shape (1/1 scale) on the recently laid deck (see photos). I found the back half really easy but the front curve was difficult. I free-handed one half of the curve and used a grid method to mirror the other half. Today I'll be blogging (reflections, adding photos etc) and calender-ing. Tomorrow I hope to finish drawing the shape onto my board. And next week I hope to begin cutting it out.
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