1974 Barry Kanaiaupuni Lightning Bolt, a job I wont soon forget.
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2023
- One of the most important boards I have worked on, I am really happy to be able to share this footage, video and board with you all. This is certainly a job I will look back on for years to come.
There is more to be done to this board in the future and this time around I was somewhat limited in what I could achieve given the customers budget. I will certainly try to convince him to save a little and bring it back in a year or two to finish what we have started.
The customer was gifted this board from his parents back in 74/75 as a joint Birthday and Christmas present. Three were sent to his local surf shop in South Africa. He said to me when I spoke to him ''back when I was gifted it, it wasn't anything special, it was just a surfboard''. I thought that was quite funny to think about, how were these highly collectable and historically important boards seen back then? Were the shapers in any way aware of the long lasting changes their efforts and crafting would have on the world of surfing? Likely not...
BK was a revered Sunset Beach power surfer who was ranked #9 in the world in 1976 and was one of around 30 shapers to be shaping Lightning bolts at the time. He was described as the ying to Gerry Lopezes yang when it came to surfing styles. Where Gerry had flow, elegance and grace, BK had speed, agression and power.
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What an incredible job!
You are an artist my friend.
Blessings from Topanga CA
Appreciate it very much man!
That was a buzz. At 64 I come from an era when every surfer I knew fixed their own boards and we all had some level of competence at it. In the '80s I worked for a fair while as a glasser in Sydney (not in the surfboard industry) and did a lot of repairs and special stuff, so it was so cool to watch a craftsman at work. Can't imagine that board would be such a great ride now, but what a piece of memorabilia, from way back when I started surfing. Great to see you put some life back into it.
Thats who taught me to glass boards
Who's that, BK?!
@@smallkinedings Barry and also Dave parmenter showed me how to shape. I hope i spelled his name right.
Mesmerizing! What a beauty and what a restoration job!
Glad you enjoyed! Happy with the results!
Amazingly interesting, beautiful, satisfying and relaxing video! Mesmerizing. Thank you for this. And congratulations.
Stoked you enjoyed, those are exactly the qualities I was hoping to create with this video!
Now that's a real Bolt. Shaped by BK and glassed in Hawaii probably by Jack Reeves. BK had the most incredibly powerful bottom turns at Sunset Beach ever.
The most impressive board I’ve ever had in for repair. The owner had no idea what he had either!
That's a great job
Many thanks! Pretty stoked on how it came out, very glad it's over though 😂
BK was always one of my favorite surfers & shapers...&, Lightening Bolt was always my surfboard manufacturer...I used to live in NJ, on the East Coast of the USA 🇺🇸...I had always loved bodysurfing & bodyboarding, but I had never surfed...I would always go into the local surf shops on Long Beach Island to look at the surfboards & daydream about becoming a standup surfer...one day, completely out of the blue & unannounced, I was looking through the boardrack at my favorite surf shop, in Beach Haven, when my jaw dropped to see two brand new Lightening Bolt surfboards, freshly arrived all the way from Mau'i, & for sale to anyone with the $...I am said to my buddy...I'm buying one of those Lightening Bolts--take your pick on which one you want, & I'll take the other (I was always polite, & generous--but, fortunately, he picked the one which I didn't like as much as the other)...in any event, we both down our security deposits, & then returned the very next weekend & bought both of those beautiful Lightening Bolts...that was in 1982, the year I started surfing 🏄♂️...honestly, I don't even know who shaped my Lightening Bolt, but it certainly wasn't either BK or Gerry Lopez...a couple of years later, when I visited Hawai'i for the second time, I spent a few days surfing @ Makaha in February during a big NW swell...I really fell in love with the waves of Makaha Beach, & the whole vibe & beauty of the West Side...there was a big local guy out there surfing every afternoon on a brand new beautiful BK...he was a great Native surfer, & he never wore a leash...many of the locals asked him to ride his board, but he always said no way, even to his friends...it was such a pleasure to watch this guy surf some decent sized waves on that beautiful BK Makaha Special @ Makaha Beach...most guys were out surfing the North Shore during that swell, because Second Reef Pipe was going-off...so, it was mostly just locals, plus me & my buddy out there at Makaha...it was so funny, one afternoon, me & my buddy were sitting out in the lineup, with a small group of locals when braddah on his BK paddled out, all smiles, & he greeted all his friends & he commented on how good the waves were that day, & how it was "even betta, cause no haoles out!" I guess he had already gotten used to me & my buddy, cause we had been surfing with him the past few afternoons...I fell in love with Hawai'i the first time I visited, & about 8 years later, after many 2-week vacations there, & having visited all of the Hawaiian Islands, I finally moved there-to Hilo, on the Big Island...&, it was there that I met my my future wife, a beautiful Native Hawaiian woman named Mana...surfing is all about the journey...I live on the ocean in San Diego now
Unreal man! Very grateful for the story and was so happy to hear you did the migration and met your wife there! Hawaii changed the course of my life too and the name ''Small Kine Dings'' is a tribute to that. Hawaii holds a very special place in my heart!
One of the most magic things about boards like this is the stories that they inspire people to share. They bring up so many memories and emotions in people, I think thats their greatest quality!
Decent colour matching as well.
Mate, you crushed it - great effort. I would have paid a lot of money for that effort and detail.
Many thanks! Still more I'd like to do to that board but certainly a vast improvement on what it was!
Awesome video thank you so much for posting
My pleasure, thank you so much for watching!
That is insane workmanship mate, great editing too.
Many thanks man 🤙
wow! Beautiful and inspiring work mate, a pleasure to watch a master
Tumeke Chris, appreciate that! Master is a strong word, I watch the likes of Craig Hollingsworth and Pat Rawson on instagram every day and they are both still churning out the most beautiful Bolts. Those ol' fullas are the real masters, I hope I can learn half of what they know one day and I'm just super honoured to get the opportunity to work on a board like this one.
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Nice Resto bro
Many thanks!
Great job good sense 🏄♂️
Many thanks!!
Pro Ding guy here in OZ. Respect. So many hours in that job. Cant imagine how you would quote that?
Many thanks man! It was a tricky one, the customer was on budget and I definitely spent more time on the board than I Should of. Mainly with the leash loops, I did two others which aren't in the video but I just wasn't happy with them aesthetically so got to the final result in my own time. I felt a lot of pressure to do the right thing by this board, for my own OCD and business reputation. It's definitely the last one I ever do to a set budget, I learnt a big lesson in that regard on this board. Theres still some work I'd like to do on it so I will try and get him to bring it back in a year or two to finish the whole thing off but the guy still surfs it regularly so that was something to keep in mind too!
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I love your use of pour foam, I live in Pacifica now and it's really sunny and I bet I could get a really good volume out of that foam if I fill some holes out in the sun : ) I have a big board I am working on now, going to buy some foam and try it in this climate
A game changer in my field of work! Gone are the days of filling beautiful boards with unsightly resin and qcell! You should have good luck with the climate and the foam, ideal temprature is 15 to 20 degrees Celsius, if you're any hotter than that I'd take it to the shade!
@@smallkinedings When I was glassing in a company in Sydney we used to repair these huge floats that were part of a dam system somewhere in NSW and we'd blow heaps of foam to fill them, but you couldn't accurately predict how much was enough. Few times we overdid it and once it starts foaming there's no going back Fun stuff.
@@hannotn once it's growing its like a tsunami! All you can do it sit back and watch the inevitable!
What a Classic
An absolute beauty! I've said it a few times, it's like looking into a campfire, just so hard to look away!
Ilima Kalama, Dave Kalama's dad told me Barry Kanaiaupuni was the best surfer he EVER saw and he's seen them all.
Sounds like a lot of people felt that way about his surfing. I've looked into his surfing quite a bit while working on this board and I fully understand it!
Smashed it
Shot brother!
Another stoked client, I'm sure.
I will find out in about an hour when he comes and collects it! 🤞🤞🤞
Nice! A lot of work. Looks like maybe a leg rope tore thru the rail? Archeology dig to get the plug out. CSI surfboard damage. 🤙🏼
Yea, guessing a leash too but not 100%. That red leash plug i definitely wanted out in one piece and so stoked I managed it. Fascinating to see an original 1970's leash plug, threads and all. I will be keeping that!
@@smallkinedings when I started surfing in the 70s no one had a leash. Then they came out with a a bungee cord that attached to the single fin screw. There was a loop on the end of the fin screw.
Wow. That was an amazing restoration and amazing video. I bet your glad it’s finished. Excellent work. I must ask. Is that your board, or a customers? I wander what it’s worth? Keep up the good work. I learn so much from your videos.
Thanks Greg, I am pretty stoked that it's done and dusted. A lot of fun but the pressure and responsibility won't be missed! The board is a customers (I wrote the history of him and the board in the description). Have a google of this shaper and the year, theres a few out there for sale. Put it this way... even if I had the opportunity to purchase it, theres no way I could afford it!
Great vid. I'd like to try using some fill foam. What brand do you use?
I don't have a brand that I use, just a local supplier of PU foams. I do have a video from a month or so back that cover the foams and a lot of the FAQs I was getting about the stuff. I would HIGHLY recommend looking into it. It was actually the main reason I started this channel, I was so sick of seeing guys loading boards up with resin and qcell haha!
Outstanding work! With the leash loop, can you use fin roving instead of strands from the fiberglass cloth?
Many thanks! Yea, fin rovings can definitely be used. Not to spoil the UA-cam Magic but this leash loop was actually the third iteration on this board, the first two I did both used fin rovings but aesthetically they were lacking something. The third try which is the one you saw in the video I just needed to try something different so I pulled from some 6oz cloth, it ended up paying off!
Barry Kanaiaupuni was surfing on a whole other level compared to everyone else in the early 70's. To this day no one has matched the full commitment bottom turns and mid face carves he did in the most critical positions. Gerry was Mr.Pipeline, but Barry was superhuman at Sunset.
Have definitely looked into his surfing quite a bit while working on this board. True powerhouse!
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I would like to know what product you use to make it swell, thank you
I have a video specifically on it. It's a high density expanding PU foam 🤙
Have you ever used the Polyurethane Part A?B for snapped boards? Ie to stick them together again?
Normally to stick boards together I use whatever resin the repair will require, either epoxy or poly
I know you are not the biggest fan of the router, but if I may be so bould..
Maybe if you try holding the base of the router with one hand (or put you're thumb on a free spot on the base) and the other on the switch/handle, you find yourself trusting the router more than you used to, especially free hand. the hand holding the router is most of the time also capable of holding the workpiece or template, therefore creating less chance of losing control.
I am not a big fan of you're new big router, for routing fluffy stuff as blanks and a bit of epoxy/resin/glass I would prefer a bit less heavy router, and it also looks a bit chunky to use.
I mainly use more expensive routers for woodworking for my buisiness, so I am spoiled, but I remember you said you are a bit skittish of the routers, so maybe this helps.
Everybody works different, has different opinions about whats correct,safe,workable, but maybe you find it usefull, or you try it your own way witch may work better for you.
Maybe in some time you prefer routing out old repairs in stead of chopping with an screwdriver for instance.
anyhow, maybe just a tip
I hate spinning sharp things haha! Routers, skill saws, planes and, I have a deathly fear of nail guns 😂
Yes, I should really take your advice with hand placement, not just with the laminate trimmers but planes and skill saws too! I'm pretty comfortable with the Makita trimmer, I've never had a bad or scary experience with it but I think my short experience with the OZITO trimmer put the fear of God into me. It really showed me how dangerous those tools can be, that and my more than capable neighbour who is a builder planing the ends of his fingers off 😂😂😂
The Ryobi plunge router has felt pretty good so far but certainly compared to the laminate trimmer, she's hefty! I have some ply wood to route out this week with it so that should be interesting!
low revs, dull or cheap bits and to much depth in one go are mostly the reason for issues.
the smaller the routerbit, the higher speed you need to cut with ease.
I usually put my thumb on something like the height adjuster or along the plunge side, so there is something of a barriere between the hand and the spinning bit (and most routers have some sort of suction device also for safety and dust collection) and the control of the movement is very comfortable. With comfort and control comes confidence, although too much confidence is also a bad thing if you lose respect of the machinery and lose focus on the job at hand😇
good luck and have fun ripping trough a bit of wood😀@@smallkinedings
@@smallkinedings You wouldn't want to do joinery then. Go into a custom joiner's place and half the guys have a finger or a joint or two missing. Spindle moulders are a very unforgiving tool.
@@hannotn I'd do it all by hand like that funny Irish fulla who makes youtube videos with ye Olde hand tools 😂
I see you using high end tools, fabric, resins, paint etch, Why do you use rusty chisels and flat head screw drivers to dig out old dings and damage? You do not seem to be lacking in proper tools.
Doesn't really matter at that stage, everything will be cleaned up and tidied in the sanding process so whatever on hand at that stage
You do great work. @@smallkinedings
@@chriscoralAloha mahalos!