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.

Donizetting on v.Bowls

Frenchman Clovis Donizetti killing it softly on my 8' v.Bowls in Bairritz.

Clovis took really quickly to the board and to me his style matched what I intended it for perfectly so we filmed on a sunday afternoon with really average waves. Here is my edit from the quick session; the first moving imagery of the design that's stolen my heart:

and just for reference, here is a pretty detailed blog post about the v.Bowls

that I did just after shaping the first version:

A Clearly Winding Path

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: