Post em!BEAUTIFUL. Time to post up quiver shots. Have some nice Hess guns and step ups here. Love his work and the boards don't disappoint.
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Post em!BEAUTIFUL. Time to post up quiver shots. Have some nice Hess guns and step ups here. Love his work and the boards don't disappoint.
Very cool to see his build process.Film with Danny giving a detailed breakdown of his board building process for the all wood boards:
That guy is really edging the tip between being a Hipstus Vulgaris and a legitimate craftsman.Film with Danny giving a detailed breakdown of his board building process for the all wood boards:
I like the part where it's pissing waterThat guy is really edging the tip between being a Hipstus Vulgaris and a legitimate craftsman.
As a fellow woodsman I share his passion for overweight cumbersome surfboards. This damn thing had me near clobbered to death!
A few observations.Film with Danny giving a detailed breakdown of his board building process for the all wood boards:
Waiwaiwait how much does swaylocks cost to run? I need that site to stick around.A few observations.
He says, "Foam is just a dead piece of material. It doesn't have a spring or life to it." We know this isn't true. I doubt that's what he tells his customers that buy his wood skinned boards EPS cored boards.
I wonder how he calculates for "spring back" when he takes the boards out of the rocker bed? All wood will bend in a press, but it will also spring back to some degree, especially if it is two pieces of 1/2" glued together (as opposed to 5 pieces of 1/8"). Really hard to predict. Every piece of wood is different due to density and grain. I'm presently making a stringerless EPS board and even 1/40" veneer will have spring back which tends to pull rocker out of the stringerless blank. 1/16" to 1/8" spring back is significant when talking about rocker.
I like how he tests the sharpness of his blades by shaving the hair off his arm. The furniture maker I worked for would shave his fingernail. He would show me how the nail shaving curled off his finger like a wood shaving. "Now it's sharp."
15+ years ago Danny was on Swaylocks asking questions like all of us (btw the guy who runs Swaylocks is thinking of shutting the site down due to cost). Now he has really dialed in his craft. And the "green" cred is legit. No one is going to throw one of his boards away after a year or two... or twenty. This boards are heirloom works of art.
If I could ask him one question I would ask him if he kept the hard edges. GG would want to know.
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Waiwaiwait how much does swaylocks cost to run? I need that site to stick around.
I'm not saying I'm rich, but if it's in the mid- to low-three figures, I'm down to help out.
See my post on first page, but let me know if you want more detailsOffhand, anyone have any ride experience on the Hess Bella Speed Eggs?
I really need to read the whole thread before posting.See my post on first page, but let me know if you want more details
Hey @doof, talk to Danny! He'll get you sorted. He's really generous with his time and has a bunch of demos in the shop.
I just talked to Danny about a 6'7 step-up. We decided on a Banjo with a Traveler rocker and a touch more nose width than the typical Banjo outline. Twin fin with trailer option that will go with his keels or uprights. Full wood build in redwood from a salvaged water tower. This is a good wave/travel board. Outline like this:
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I was going to get the EPS/Wood deck build that I have on my 3 Travelers, but Danny told me he recently completed R&D on a full-wood construction that is 10x stronger than the EPS/Wood and can be as light as EPS or lightly glassed PU if you want. I felt up a couple of boards that were surprisingly light, including a 7'0 Bella Twin.
Danny is phasing out the EPS/Wood deck construction. Given rising materials prices and his improved wood build, the cost/benefit analysis has tipped way in the favor of full wood.
Film with Danny giving a detailed breakdown of his board building process for the all wood boards:
What was your wait time on your Hess boards?
Price on the website. linkD
Didn't talk cost yet. For eps/wood deck, probably around $1400?