Twarren

Rediscovered this pic while hanging out with Morgan, collecting photos for a project, Tyler in Oz with She Hull, I'm in love with this shot...so perfect...style, power, flow, and my shape throwing buckets...cool :)

You Could Come to Stay

Another flex spooner completed...Morgan was kind enough to come by whilst running errands to snap a couple photos of it for me as yet again, I am camera-less.

This is the first time I've polished a spoon, and while I don't quite like it for water friction reasons, its really pretty hard to beat looks-wise...

Projects...

A wee snapshot of the look-book/catalogue I've been designing for the past week...

Tyler Warren on She Hull in Oz, and Trevor Gordon boosting on the t.Rev; photos from Morg.

9'1 Hull/Log combo

Funk yeah, kiddos!

Really happy with this one, hulled out bottom/rail line into vee all over that wide butt it's got.  60/40 kinda rails, rad.

photos by the ever curly Morg Maassen

Maples

A small sampling of photos from my good friend Brandon.

Vampire Hull, Shape Notes, and a polite "are we done yet?" from the one and only Herbie.

8'4 of Hull, Frozen In Motion

Ed Tekeian was spotted by a newspaper photog on the 8'4 that I shaped him a few weeks ago.  

Hows THAT for burying over 8' of rail in near freezing water in Massachusetts?!?!?! 

Rad!

Creative Casualties

Alex just shot me a link to a few photos and blurb about him and Trevor J's trip up here to snag his new Gull.  Alex and his buddies have been gathering a mean collection of hulls from me over the past couple of months.  I just shaped his brother a 7' vampire hull this morning that will be shared here shortly...thanks, guys!

Creative Casualties - From Shaper to Surfer from Alex Swanson

QuadSimming

Trev laying down a silky one on a quadsim down south.

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!