My name is Chris Cravey, 19 years old. I'm from Manteca, California. I use to surf—private duty. I love this kind of sport, it's 9/7 single 10 and so on wood. The clean basic shape, that can tell no one can hit the nose, so just don’t scrape the skin too much. Real low rocker, it's flat.
Good length, cut it down to size, cut it out, cut it down to thickness. If you do all, that’s great.
Clean it in both sides and start trimming the nose, and continue those, cut your concave in, going off with those, get the thickness out then. Clean it all up and –as you’ve seen it. You're done.
Now, to come up with the board, it's pretty nasty green to it. I started it out on green. I was thinking for like an olive green and I mixed with some yellows into it, a little black, brown, and red. And I end up that color, I call the sewer. It looks like the sewer.
And you laminate the board. You're actually gluing that fiberglass box and board. And you resin basically is ripped. You got to really work the resin in the box, it's like it's done. And here’s a fiber glass in it.
Then sanding, it's a nightmare, because you have all these bumps and lumps everywhere you got to sand out. So each process in there it's like wasting that stuff everywhere.
I felt like when I studied shaping, after I shape a dozen woods, I knew everything. Now, I feel like every board I shape, I know even less, because there's so much more I find out every board I shape. And not only shaping, I just want to keep doing it.
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