Beaming

Beamer and I have been planning a board for him for a couple months now and after switching back and forth a few times on shape and general desires, I decided to have him come down for a weekend from the bay area and hang out while I built his board start to finish in the 24 hr window of time we both had to work with...

I shaped it in the evening (4'11" x 21" x 2 1/2" velosim), then woke up bright and early the next morning to meet him and Jason out at the boatyard; It was a solid task but not impossible; the board being full tint top and bottom with glass-on fins made the challenge even more tempting. A clear sanded board is no problem for that kind of time frame if you've got nothing else going on but this made me feel pretty accomplished by the end of the day, PLUS, we ate some dank pizza.

Light My Fire

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaall kinds of mischief this week...shaped some TransitionHulls like the one below...and SoloMan got nutty with some colors for you guys:

Shaped a couple Stage III's with regular foam/resins, just with a hefty flex tail that'll be filled with EVA foam...

The shaping bay turned into a PC candy shop for a few days:

and then things got even more fun........

Oh the beauty of hand shaping and working closely with your boards...super glad I haven't gone down the machine path like so many, because.......

It's a good week for surfboards.

Well I Don't Know Why I Came Here Tonight...

Inspired by Jonny's Cosmic Series, The Dove is my new baby.

Subtle, smooth and stringerless, 6'8" x 22 1/2" x 2 3/4"...the thickness pushed back towards the tail makes for some unreal cutbacks that are quite easy to recover from, and love to be fully finished off, instead of nursed into submission. 

Belly and roll is carried through the very tip of the tail, which makes this a rather unforgiving rider, but when you nail a turn, the acceleration is priceless.  

Think; projection is a direct result of belly depth and placement...more depth, more zip...Check a rocker shot of Greenough's spoons if you want proof.

I worked a few flat sections into the deck of this one to breathe a little new life into my design theory, not that I felt it was particularly stagnant at the moment though...The flat nose allows for the long rail line on a 7'+ board, in a shorter more lively length.  The deck flatness is just under your back foot, giving you a sort of point of reference, kindof like your favorite pressure dent...nothing majorly groundbreaking, but as always, everything is worth trying!

A true-blue point breaking hull if I ever owned one.

o4trixing

Nico droppin' in on a 5'10 paulownia railed quad fish that has saw its fair share of tube time due to this particular pilot and this particular day.

photo: DiPierri