heeeellooooooo

sacred craft :)

Herbie is Pooped!

Wanted to put out a HUGE thank you to everyone who came out and supported the PC cause this weekend at Sacred Craft, I was floored to see so many people loving the boards and letting me know they check out the PCprog-blog religiously!

The show went off without a hitch, I shaped a 7' hull on saturday morning and gave it away later in the day to one very very lucky lady, Piper P.  hundreds of people put in for it but only one was destined to hold the holy blade in her possession at the end of the day!  

I'll post some photos and videos from the weekend asap, but right now I'm going into serious recovery mode, I haven't been this exhausted in months...time to go hide in my shaping bay for the week and make some more hully sleds that go like Alex Swanson's:

photo: Erica B.

NIcking

Found this shot of Nick and his hullibut floating around the interwebz, don't know the photog, so if YOU do, let me know!

.....now I'm off to Sacred Craft...see you there!

LookaLogue

Part catalogue, part lookbook, I'm sure there's a trendy name for it already but I just don't know it...so it's a Look-a-Logue.

Back  < - >  Cover

and here's a random page from 'er for you guys, too...I'm gonna be mailing these out to bunches of surfshops as counter decoration (ie: Wetsand, Shelter, Mollusks's's', SurfySurfy, and Corduroy back east, etc.) ...and I'll bring some to the big show this weekend:

I want to put out a HUGE thanks to my good friends, and especially Morgan Maassen for the multitude of photographs compiled from over the years...what's in here is a culmination of my past 4 years of play, countless of hours in the shop, and documentation of the shapes and designs that have come from it.  and, of course, my good friends surfing them on their miscellaneous adventures!

Hull Giveaway and Discount Announcement!

Hey...look there ---------------->

says it all:

10% discount on all custom orders placed at the sacred craft show this coming weekend in Ventura...

ALSO,

I'll be doing a little hull shaping demo at 10am on saturday morning, the shaped blank will be given away at 3pm on saturday!

sign up during my demo or at my booth and be present when I call out the winner at 3pm...eeeeasy!

4'11" for Lakey

Lakey Peterson's shaped this with me, her new little shred sled!

4'11" x 22" x 2 5'8"

After we made her Gullet, she wanted to learn to shape a little bit so we made this together the next day, I took care of the heavy planer work and she was in charge of the block sanding and screening...stoked on the finished product :)

We decided to add a crack in the tail to free it up a little bit, she's an insane surfer and I didn't want the board to be too sticky for her; also took my normal Velosim fin template, nicked the back off of it and a little leading edge also, then cut the base away...this thing oughtta be pretty fun for her!

Belly to triplane bottom that exits off the outer edges of the fins, with a heavy single concave through the middle...epic.

Leo Logs

Leo picked up his 9'4 on friday...check it!

9'4" x 23" x 3 1/8", d.Bowls-esque template with a wide diamond tail and more foiled nose and tail:

Poplar halves with 10 layers of black pigmented fiberglass stacked down the middle...20x stronger than any glass bead on the block.

Belly through the whole board, nose to tail.  50/50 rails with a slight pinch and a long, low rocker curve for super glideability...

On the Gogo

Got a quick surf in last night...but sitting in LAX right now...hoping for a better smell to grace the airspace around me...this is rough, a deadly mix of fast foods of all types, sweaty people and stale air...but I have a feeling it will smell much nicer where I'm going...

Just Say Yeah

I'm pretty sure the conversation we had today out front will go down in history in the awkward category.  I enjoy it very much when everyone comes out to the shop and hangs out for a bit, slows down work but I'm pretty sure these are the good 'ol days so I'm not too worried.

Red Room Ramblings

Come visit me in my shaping room...you may just get a board, shape, theory or fin explanation that borders on interpretive dance.

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Alex S. shot these while picking up a board last weekend...glad i almost look sane...kinda..