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I am going to a far off and magical place today to do something very cool.

SURF.

...you know i'm not getting out of the shop enough when i have to announce it :)

Been waiting 6 years for this little day...a small victory but one I am sure will seed itself into my memory and create something new and profound.

or silly.

Menage-Blogged

three very random images that caught my eye as i was thumbing through my hard drive searching for material to quench my blogging thirst... 

Slowly But Surely

pullung a spoon out of the mold is quite fun for me; this one's about half way finished as of yesterday :)

FIngers

Your Mom

Remember when your mom used to tell you when you got frustrated with a project or homework to set it aside and come back to it with a clear head in a bit?

ya.......i do......

and it's time once again to examine something that has been a deep quest for full hull heads for more than 40 years... 

I'm not afraid to say that try #1 was a failure surf-wise, even though i don't TRULY think it was, because i learned more than i possibly could have imagined with that board's build and composite structure.

....starting 3 new versions now.

WOOHOO!

edit***this isn't a post about my first board ever (that thing was siiiiiiiiick...6'4 x 24" x 3 1/2"...f*ck yeah!), this is a series of experimental composite hulls that i've been working on for a year or so...searching for flex much like a flex spoon but with a totally different build.

well that sounds impossible when I say it like that...shit.

re:  http://pcprogress.blogspot.com/2009/10/big-black-nothing-details.html

Oh Hai!

Lots of times I'll lend out my 6'9 hull/fish to chaps who don't know what to order...they describe themselves as flow oriented, all around surfers who drive off their front foot but can't really lay down a full railed 7' hull cutback and want lots of the same feelings and drive with a bit more ability to get tubed and make more critical drops.

...Enter the hull/fish thing (it's been unnamed for 3 years now...deal with it!) is my oldest board and it goes mental...I've loved it and trusted it in any waves since the day we met (When I was still shaping/glassing/sanding/pinlining/glossing  in the boatyard alone...fathom that one!).

Aaaaanyways, that board has introduced a lot of people to hulls and the derived designs that I do which share the same concepts.  i'd venture to say around 20 individuals have sprung hull addictions off that board (incidentally it was the linking board between the OG design and Pinky).  

So this is a custom from one of those happy intoducee's...6'4" x 20" x 2 7/8" low rocker, thin rails, hulled out bottom with my favorite double to single concave breaking up the flow...my favorite and most involved bottom shape that works like kittens.

MSel.

Marvin's new 7'4, delivered a could weeks ago just prior to that fatty south swell we had...

Hey Ryan,

Holy shit, man! That board is sick! And, you were right! It is like surfing on a bar of soap! I took your advice and went straight then did a bottom turn and felt the fin flex then shoot me down the line. I couldn't stop thinking about the board!

Thanks so much! I love this board!

-Marvin

there is officially only one period in the whole email, which to me is the measure of success when it comes to customer email reviews!

Machine

Tezro's photos of his 9'1 in progress :)

Transitionhull

Today's special is something I've been interested in doing and I guess have been doing a lot of in the past little while...I really like transition era boards, or maybe I should say I really like what they were getting at.

The curves looked so right most of the time, and the ideas were all over the place and accentuated to the highest degree sometimes so I've always wanted to make something reeeeeally similar but add on some of the more modern knowledge and style thats in play in today's boards.

This one is an 8'6 derived from about 12 different templates of mine, with a low and pretty flat rocker and a pulled back wide-point compared to my other boards.  Bellied out but not outrageously so, and an overall thinner foil than most trans-style boards (you know what I'm talking about...).  What came out is really cool to me, a pretty solid vee off the tail, and it took all of my not to foil that sucker out, but I didn't!

If you want some boards to reference, take a look at the first half of the Innermost Limits of Pure Fun for my inspiration, those guys are enjoying themselves too much.............

New Site Is UP!

HEY EVERYONE!

I'm about to poop my pants because the new website is up and running!!!!!!!

go take a look, 

www.PointConceptSurf.com

its stuffed full of sugar, spice, and a new online store with shirts and boards for sale...you can get at the store either through the website or this button right here!

My good buddy and web-whiz Jonny has been doing my site for the past year + and I highly recommend him for general conversation or web-related jobs!