Lesleys new board

Lesley Adamski, has just tested her latest chambered board and here is her report.
" Here are some pics of the latest board! I won’t say finished board coz it took in water and I’ve had to cabinet scrape off the oiled surface, will wait for it to dry out, reglue some failed joints and refinish with epoxy resin! My main worry now is getting the moisture out, getting rid off slight cupping at failed joints and hoping the resin will adhere to any oil residue left in the timber, then whether to surf it or not! Maybe I’ll keep it for a wall hanger! If only I had wall space to hang it on!!! "

" Would like to use a bioresin but is proving difficult to source, I’ve just seen some on the surfing green website that they are trialing but is yet to be released."

"So,oiling (lanotech) the recycled western red cedar, chambered board wasn’t the best idea. Nice idea but water found its way into hairline cracks. I heard water running up and down inside after the surf."
" How did it surf? Great, looser than I expected, sometimes didn’t carry through flatter sections, which could be too much rocker or I just needed to shift my weight forward slightly!"

Meet a very talented lady - Lesley Adamski

At this years wooden board day I was introduced to Lesley who had flown up for the day from Mac Masters Beach. Her friend introduced us and showed me a album of pictures of the boards she had been building and riding. Just amazing work.So I asked her to send some pics to share with us here.
Lesley riding her chambered 5ft 3" Mini Simmons.


" The latest one in the making is a shortened version (6’2”) of my 9’1 Mal, from an old outdoor Western Red cedar table from a rubbish pile, with Paulownia stringers (off cuts from some Alaia’s I made for friends) "


" I am putting a fin box in it, because I don’t know what fin or where to put it and I’m trying the Lanotec Timber Seal on it. I’m concerned the glue joins might not hold up seeing not much glue
surface area, being chambered (all the finned boards are chambered) and Western Red Cedar can be tricky to glue but want to keep the weight down."


" The Mini Simmons (5’3”) is from a packing crate so a variety of lightish weight timber, I finished it with Epoxy Resin and Bamboo cloth, which turned out more opaque than I’d hoped. It hid the grain a bit and added too much weight to it."




" The Alaia’s are from old Facia Boards of Californian Redwood, Linseed oil finish.

" The 6 foot fish is Oregon from framing studs and old bed railings, with Blackwood fins from a benchtop offcut. It’s a bit heavy but that’s what I had at hand. It’s finished with Bio Varnish "



I think this is the Simmons judging by the S deck , showing the extent of the chambering .

Black wood fins and a nice finish with the Bio varnish.


Another Californian Redwood Alaia showing off the great grain with the Linseed oil finish.

What a very talented lady indeed. She has some skills that many of us hope to one day find through or hours in the shed. I take my hat off to her and look forward to having her bring some boards to next years gathering. I would love to have Lesley as one our guest speakers at next years night at the Surf Museum on the Saturday night if she were willing.