Rocker Table & Jigs
Building a wood paddleboard is much easier than it looks with the help of some shop made tools & fixtures. The rocker table sets the rocker and bottom contours and ensures your board will be properly aligned. The homemade jigs are simple to build and usually save more time than they take to assemble.
Simple Rocker Table
Building a rocker table can be as simple as stacking blocks of wood to the required heights and then adding wedges to support the hollows....
Ladder Rocker Table
This tutorial will teach you how to build a ladder style rocker table for your hollow wood board.
The benefit of the ladder style rocker table is that the bottom contour is pressed into the bottom planking. Each rung of the ladder is a specific height and exactly matches the side-to-side contour of the rib it supports.
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CNC Rocker Table
When the ladder style rocker tables started taking up too much room in the shop I switched to IKEA inspired flat stacking rocker tables. The bottom contours of each rib exactly match the contour of the corresponding riser.
Assembly Table
The ladder assembly table is simply a ladder that provides a solid base for building your hollow wood paddleboard kit. This table is used for gluing panels, attaching your ribs to the fishbone and serves a base for the rocker table....
Wooden Wedges
Wedges come in very handy during building a hollow wood paddleboard or surfboard. They allow you to apply even vertical pressure over a curved surface....
Bead & Cove Rail Clamps
The lightening hole cutouts quickly turn from useless waste, to super handy clamps for building the bead and cove rails. By adding notches and a little 14:1 wedge the cutouts quickly turn from useless waste, to super handy clamps...
Drainage Pipe Clamps
Every new construction project throws out enough perimeter drainage pipe cutoffs to fill a Rubbermaid with drainage Pipe clamps...
Fairing Board
After you are finished with the spokeshave it is a good idea to sand the rails with a flexible fairing board to even out the highs and lows. Fairing Boards are a necessity to get a truly fair surface...
