RabbitsFoot again

And then there was magenta.

The latest in rabbitsfootery.

An offering for an admired acquaintance.  R&D continues into the fall...

Too Much Fun

I've been enjoying my time int he shop lately, between days of pure stress productivity and extreme relief when each peak in my workload is summited.  Above is a 7'6 JethroHull that I'll be taking along when I shape at Deus' Temple in Bali in just a few weeks.

7'6 LadyWriter for my lovely girlfriend Lauren, also for the trip.  She'll be staying to work in Byron Bay for a short while longer once I leave, so I thought she oughtta have a little something to remember me by...heh.

Little bit 'o dis and a little bit 'a daaaaaat....

25+ boards hand shaped and laminated in one room in under 3 weeks will do some interesting stuff to ya...

Chadd's Paddle

Wish I could link this directly but alas, the powers at the helm will not let it be so.

Chadd's got a nice little video about his paddle from Santa Cruz to Santa Barbara up now, there's even a little bit of Piggyback shredding in the end section of it also:

http://www.surfermag.com/videos/sea-pathways/

#1,000

Having a little bit of trouble swallowing the fact that as of last week I've made over 1,000 surfboards by hand.  What a trip.

This one was made for Hiten Iyer's wedding, he was my first customer ever after posting an ad on craigslist for 'Custom Surfboards'.  He got my first custom, then after a year or so and totally by chance he got #100 also...His wedding fell perfectly in time and his wife asked me to build him another board, so I thought he should also own number one thousand...Much love and respect to a man that has taught me more then he can imagine about life and our paths through it.

The Unanswered Questions of the Cosmos

Greg Swanson shot this of mr.Miles Jackler.  It was too cosmic not to share.

Ozagain!

Heading back to Australia in a couple weeks to shape a few customs in Sydney at Evan Daley's shop (Gato Heroi Oz) then up north from there for the Byron Bay Surf Festival.  Once that's said and done its up to Bali to visit the guys at Deus Ex Machina with a few friends in tow (Troy Mothershead, Chadd Konig, Phil Browne from NJ and hopefully one mr.Ari Browne).  Oughtta' be a pretty ridiculous time!

Rabbits Foot Updates

Oh goodness.

Rabbits Foot ridden by one mr.Ari Browne...Holy crap.

That about says what I'm feeling, here after seeing this one.

Some New v.Bowls Thang

Troy Mothershead + Pintail variation on the 8' v.Bowls.

I always love watching how the board reacts to different people's styles and the lines they like to draw with the design.  

Versatility in different conditions as well as a very distinct performance when pushed is what I was after when I designed the style of board and this video does a good job of highlighting that when compared to other v.Bowls videos.  Troy's approach is a bit more aggressive off the bottom and projects higher into the wave, showing how an understanding of the board's volume placement and balance can be used to juuust about anyone's advantage.

To SF we go!

Off to San Francisco to check out my boards in the art show opening at the RVCA gallery on Haight st. tomorrow; the show is a collection of work by Blake Marquis, who came up to the shop a few weeks ago to collaborate on a few boards with me.  Come swing by the show friday night if you're free and easy, I'll be hangin' out eating snacks 'n stuff.

Here are some photos the Blake's friend shot from the afternoon in and around the shop:

http://www.singleape.com/featured/santa-barbara-sundays/ 

ph | Steven Nereo

On it!

not having internet access at home has its ups and downs, 90% ups, but a large part of the 10% down is the lack of blogging ability.  I do have to say it's fantastic to be more removed than ever from cyberspace, though I'm sure I'm missing some funny pictures and whatnot...

But either way, the shop hasn't changed too much aside from the piles of boards going in and out of the doors; orders are sky high in the slowest time of the year for me, so winter is looking promising, what a blessing to pay my bills and spend my days making water toys!

If you've got any interest and wanna come out and see whats going on at the shop these days, my doors are open as ever, come collect some dust to take home, I'm more than happy to share.

Current news is as such:

Trevor is headed to Russia right now with a host of amazing surfers, Chadd is helping build a school and surfing his brains out in central america, v.Bowls are taking over the world according to my order book, and I'm at the shop 6 days a week and I'm looking for a good chiropractor.

Bingo Bango, you're up to date :)