We then add the bead and cove strips of cedar, which are basically long strips of cedar placed on top of one another from the outside edge of the Chine Strip and going up and over the frames for about 12-14 strips on each side of the board. These will form our rails. This process took me forever, I didn't have enough clamps and you had to wait 2 hours for each strip to glue, which meant it took mainly a month to do all these given that I only had evenings to work on it for about an hour or less, plus put in the family time too and get away for surf. Every other strip gets shorter as you get through the board. A bit difficult to explain so hopefully these pics can give an idea. I think pictures speak louder than words.
Between now and Christmas I don't think I will get much more done, off now to San Fran for some work for a week or so, but I have a bit of forward thinking to do with regard to my fin box position and I need more glue which I have to source from the web. So although nothing constructive to be done on the surfboard, a bit of planning is still going ahead.
