Custom Especial

When Rodrigo ordered his 8' v.Bowls, I asked the time-old question, "What are you thinking on colors?" to which he effortlessly replied, "Of course, its all in your power...whatever you feel like."

I admit I took a bit of a risk on this one, but when it was all put together as one surfy-craft, I fell in love.

After spending some back home in Washington a few months ago I couldn't keep myself from using the four most basic Northwest-Native-American-art colors on a board, and Rodrigo said the magic words..

The translucent white pigment deck over the dark abstract rails looks so insane in person. You can just barely see the abstract details through it's milky complexion (zoom in on the detail shot of the deck above).

I'm pretty proud of this one, it could have gone horribly wrong and went so far the opposite way that Rodrigo was shaking when he picked it up :)

Hats Off

Carl in France sent me a couple of shots of a througHull that I shaped for him while I was in Biarritz; Nico did a beautiful job with the deck inlay. I brought a small amount of the fabric that I've been using here at home and Nico went to work with it! Check out the top photo in full size...no pinlines and none necessary. unreal.

Good Clean Fun

OohLaLa!

Got a bunch'a boards now; I'm up to about 7" of foam dust on the ground, a nice pad to run my shaping laps most definitely. Got quite a few v.Bowls', some Velosims, EveningStars (the tall pointy ones), a beautiful 9'2 K & K, some ThrougHulls and a couple Pocket Pickles (ha.)...A pretty solid lineup of boards and ones I've been very happy to shape the past week here at Blend Glassing in Soustons. I'm sad to say though that I can't take on any more orders for this trip, time is winding down here and quite a few requests piled in, looks like I'll be shaping 'till the day I take off and my fingers are already raw, YEW!!!

The Allman Brothers' Seven Turns album has been a fantastic soundtrack to shape all of these to, there's some seriously good juju emanating from this stack of boards!

Rock out with your planer out: