Optimus Prime

I've wanted to make a larger, "real life", surfboard for a while now, and was perusing Pinterest when I came across a "folding" surfboard chair. That was all it took to inspire me, and I came up with this design. 

It's different than the one I saw online, and from other "bog" chairs, as they are known, since this one slides back together to resemble an actual surfboard. I chose cedar and fir so that I would get the contrasting tones, and because hardwoods would have made the board too heavy, and expensive! $35 in wood and a few bucks more in spar varnish.

The big kahuna

One of the requests I received was for a long (3 to 4 feet) serving tray. Hmmm... I don't have any dark hardwood strips that long to make the contrasting stripes on a board, nor the maple for the main board. But I did have a pine board that had some unique knotty feature to it, so at 42 inches, it has become the new longest of the longboards.