Well, here's the first 3 boards all sanded and ready for stain. I wetted them down with some water to add a little depth to the grain and Cross engraving.

They measure 48" X 12". Board is 1" thick maple with walnut striping. Engraving goes 1/2" deep. The double striped board was my first one. I thought it might be cool to change to the trhee stripe look. The Cross is 8" in diameter.

Gonna do about 5 coats of a polyurethane/danish oil mix to finish them off.

A great shot from the '60s. Looks to be SoCal. I always remembered this image from back in my model building days and then caught it again while leafing thru model car catalog. Wonder if that '57 is still around.

So I made this surfboard rear bike rack and it came out pretty good. So I thought to myself, hmmm, wonder how one would look a little bigger, with some different striping and maybe a carving in the middle....

I found this image on the net and really dug it:




I grew up in the '60s with the whole hot rod, surfing culture in full bloom. Never did learn to surf, but sure identified with the scene. I had all the car models, Rat Fink shirts and other stuff that was cool at the time. The Iron/Surfer's Cross was all over the place at the time. Shirts, pendants, patches, stickers, you name it.

I happened to have snagged 2 vintage crosses off ebay a while back which to me, are the best looking of the '60s Crosses. I later found these exact pendants advertised in a 1970 Auto World car model catalog shown in this pic next to the actual cross:




So the Iron Cross and the surfboard seem to be a natural fit.

the 1st board with pic

the ist board

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Day One

Off to a start here. We'll see what happens. more to come....