Cross Step: A Surf Blog by Austin Surfboards » Custom Boards http://www.austinsurfboards.com/blog Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:49:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 New Boards In Stock Today! http://www.austinsurfboards.com/blog/new-boards-in-stock-today/ http://www.austinsurfboards.com/blog/new-boards-in-stock-today/#comments Sat, 09 Apr 2011 16:08:10 +0000 Austin http://www.austinsurfboards.com/blog/?p=544 New Boards In Stock Today!15 new boards in stock today at the shop. Stop by and check them out! Post from: Cross Step: A Surf Blog by Austin SurfboardsNew Boards In Stock Today!

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15 new boards in stock today at the shop. Stop by and check them out!

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New Boards In Stock Today!

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We will have a ton of new stock boards at the shop this weekend. Come and check out the selection!

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New Stock Boards

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Mexican Blanket Resin Work

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Mexican Blanket Resin Work

]]> http://www.austinsurfboards.com/blog/mexican-blanket-resin-work/feed/ 0 Project Kookbox Pt.6 http://www.austinsurfboards.com/blog/project-kookbox-pt-6/ http://www.austinsurfboards.com/blog/project-kookbox-pt-6/#comments Tue, 23 Nov 2010 12:53:22 +0000 Austin http://www.austinsurfboards.com/blog/?p=502 Project Kookbox Pt.6Putting on the first rail  strips I learned a few lessons.   First that you have to screw on both sides for the rails at the same time so you don’t warp your spine!  Second that Thomas Blakes original measurements do not make for a flowing outline.  I had to take the rail boards off and [...]

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Project Kookbox Pt.6

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Putting on the first rail  strips I learned a few lessons.   First that you have to screw on both sides for the rails at the same time so you don’t warp your spine!  Second that Thomas Blakes original measurements do not make for a flowing outline.  I had to take the rail boards off and refit quite a few ribs to get a  nice outline.  So moral of the story was don’t put glue on until you have test fit it once!

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Project Kookbox Pt.6

]]> http://www.austinsurfboards.com/blog/project-kookbox-pt-6/feed/ 0 Project Kookbox Pt.5 http://www.austinsurfboards.com/blog/project-kookbox-pt-5/ http://www.austinsurfboards.com/blog/project-kookbox-pt-5/#comments Mon, 22 Nov 2010 22:45:09 +0000 Austin http://www.austinsurfboards.com/blog/?p=496 Project Kookbox Pt.5Here is the shot of us putting the spine into the board.  Each Rib is screwed to the spine in the center with an 1.25″ screw. Post from: Cross Step: A Surf Blog by Austin SurfboardsProject Kookbox Pt.5

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Here is the shot of us putting the spine into the board.  Each Rib is screwed to the spine in the center with an 1.25″ screw.

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Project Kookbox Pt.5

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Drilling holes in the ribs to use the jigsaw for excess weight removal.

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Project Kookbox Pt. 3

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Here we are laying out our templates for the rib sections of the kookbox.  Next step to follow later….

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Project Kookbox Pt. 2

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New Boards at the Shop

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Here is a sneak peek of a few boards I took  to the surf shop yesterday.  Swing in this weekend and check them out.

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New Boards at the Shop

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Stingerless Mini Simmons. Come by the shop and check it out!

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New Mini Simmons

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Austin goes through phases where he pushes the envelopes in each area of a surfboard build.  His current area of focus is working on is in the different stringer arrangements.   A few months ago it was custom fins and fin art.  This was one of the wood and resin fins that he and Joe created.  Austin sells the singular fins like this for $250 a piece but if he puts in on a board it would only be around $125.   If you sold something like this as Art he could get 10 times that figure.  From now on we do not sell surfboards we sell Art!

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Custom Fins

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