Dragonwood Boards

A chronicle of wooden and composite surfboard and SUP build and shape, skateboard decks, surfskate decks and completes, handplanes are also a favorite, basically all the fun stuff!!! We also run shaping courses when not in the grip of global pandemics!!

Sunday, 30 May 2021

Water based clear coat is on, more sanding now required, starting 800 wet, then 1200 and finally 1500 grit then machine polished with extra fine compound, time on this plug is 27 hrs to this point, huge amount of work creating moulds.

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Friday, 28 May 2021

14 foot hollow carbon sup project. All glassed and host coated, working through the grits on the sander, 3 passes finishing at 500 grit, next step is the red fine surface filler finished at 800 grit ready for clear coat.

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14 foot hollow carbon sup project, tail shaped in and spackled, ready for some 6oz glass and a fill coat.

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14 foot hollow carbon sup, just started refinishing the extended tail.

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14 foot hollow carbon flat water Sup project, this is the start of the plug making process, I chose this board as I know it to be a quick hull and modifying the tail as in the photo will I hope make it better, (tracking).

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Damo
I am a wooden and composite surfboard and SUP designer and builder, I am dedicated to producing the best performing and most attractive ecologically safe watercraft available anywhere.
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