For Troy Mothershead

8'2" x 22" x 3" v.Bowls with a pintail borrowed from my Sherbert template.

Utilizing the powers of the real oldschool teachings de Gregg Tally along with some lovely pastels to give a little extra flavor.  Abstracts weren't done in the glass back in the day; they possess this

 other-worldly depth that you can't get when done in the lam. 

Real acid splashes are the go for me at the moment:

This is the feel I'm feeling right now.

I'm so madly in love.

and that's all I have to say about THAT one!

Trippin'

8' v.Bowls

Why I Love Glassing My Boards

ex.1) 8'6 Evening Star:

Gloss/polished deck, sanded gloss bottom for ultimate speed feeling:

What Happens When...

...You take a v.Bowls and chop it to 7'4" x 21" x 2 7/8", pull the tail in close to 2" and put the most cosmic wide-point-back curves you can muster into the deck?

Something like an ultra-shreddy spaceship of a surfboard:

Then what if Gregg Tally taught you how to do the REAL old-school acid-abstracts?

I'm beyond myself with this style of abstract, the limits of it are so intriguing and unfathomable to me right now. A whole new can of worms has been opened for me and my obsession with colors and textures.

Trip out. This board lives at Wetsand Surfshop for now, I'm sure it won't sit for long so if you're curious to lose yourself into the depth of this board's deck, go check it out:

Seriously...zoom in, the details are a total mindf*ck.

Lookin' for Love

I had a few issues abroad with my camera so the photo-flow has been oh-so-slow, but I finally got the ones I really wanted...A bit of detail on the board that Clovis Donizetti shreds in the video I posted two days ago. It's a mix of my two favorite versions from home, a little front end more rocker than my original, still a thin foil but almost 3" thick in the middle. Lots of hard edge and a top secret ultra mellow bottom mixture of belly flats and panels...Mmmm.

The ultravibe-deck jobber was something I've been thinking about for a few weeks now, I did a four color abstract over my favorite cloth inlay and bingo bango; It looks ridiculous and I will most definitely be doing more of them...

I'm a proud papa!