How To: Fin Yourself

1)  Buy a perfectly good fin...okay...or not...you're gonna want to start with something kinda trashed..fins aren't cheap, this isn't news to any of us...

Then template your new fin onto it:

2)  Cut that sucker out with something really sharp...pref. a carbide bladed-jigsaw or band saw if you happen to work with carbide tipped things a lot...i just use my grinder at different angles, it's easier to 100% true up the template after it's rough foiled.  So get it really close.

Then Snag your grinder and get itchy.  Here is my fin rough sanded with a 60 grit disc.  Make special note of your foil lines, wobbly ones suck.  they're everywhere, I can't say it'll noticeable affect 90% of surfer's experiences, but it shows a little bit of a lack of quality to me...okay, rant over...here's the rough foil:

3)  Then get funky with a soft pad and some 120 sand paper, take your grinder scratches out and smooth off the foil.  repeat with 220 then i finish mine off with 320 wet/dry.......Then paint something on it, so as to advertise to the world that yes, your fin is cool:  

Pretty....

4) Now go put it in your shred sled:

5)  The soon thereafter, shred your sled on something resembling:

Mini Gliding with John

John F's new 7'11 Mini Glider.  Dark red pigment with a silver-leaf band and a spit shine that'll impress your mother-in-law...Snazzy!

Peaches and Cream

Some stuff regarding kneeboards...

Boards For Salez

Currently have two boards for sale:

 

6'5 Pintail Hull, rides tubes like nobodies business.  In great condition. 

$475 obo

6'8 hull named the Dove, super fast off the bottom, loves good waves and to be turned with some power.  

$500 obo

email me at Ryan@Pointconceptsurf.com for info!

For Worm

Ask and ye shall receive; 17.5" nose, and some extra outline and foil pics of the new log:

I Could Resist Anything...

...But the tempation of you.

Sometimes people let me do whatever I want with their boards' colors...

This one's a new model, 9'4" x 23" x 3" narrow nose for control; foiled out rails, nose and tail 'cause I don't like clunkers...overall a sextastic machine of a longboard.  It's been a while since I've felt like a longboard has really been 'my own' style...this one nails it.  

And my apologies for the dust on the board in the pics!

Hull For Sale

6'8" x 22 1/2 x 2 7/8 "The Dove"

The only one of it's kind, but won't be for long...I need a little more foam so I've got to let 'er go and make another, she's been ridden 5 times total and is in great condition, one decent pressure dent on the bottom (long and shallow, from entering a car).   This one's a turning machine, LOVES cutbacks and is much easier to put on rail than the wider-tailed varieties.  Asking $500 obo.

Nick Cooking

I'm sure you've seen Nick's name splattered here and there along the PCProgression, but lets go a little more in depth today.

Nicky has been pumping out some really killer photos lately; I'm really enjoying his latest work, and his hair is as majestic and glorious as ever.  

He snapped some specifically great shots of Lando and Albers spreading some Duckula over a non-descript point wave once upon a time...

I don't think nick knows how to work a digital camera, or at least i've never seen him near one, he's a master of the manual film realm and cares deeply about his subject matter.  

Nick's work is supremely unique and simple, usually black and white in nature, these color shots really caught my eye and I thought some of you kids should take a look at what he's up to

In The Hills

Whats Goin' Through Your Head?

It's funny what you find when you don't necessarily have to be anywhere at any specific time...

photo: me

The Key

In the 300++ glassjobs i've done, this is the first key lime-ish one...i have no idea how it took me so long to mix up these colors, I love it!

Also note; first glasson hull I've done, and yes, that fin flexes nicely.  This one here's a Count Duckula model, still in early experimental phases.