Asym experiment ...#15

Basically a tweaked neckbeard. Gotta work on my pinlines, they look even worse in pictures.

Cork deck, carbon rails, resinx, FCS fusion boxes. Came out rediculously light and flexy.

Erica cork bomb

Drunken Master

Gotta be a ninja to ride this one. Closest to a traditional alaia of any of my foamies, but with 2" of foam to get you in earlier.

Eric's Cork bomb

Surfs like a Cadillac drives

Daniel's simster update

Buff it up and its ready to go out the door.

recent projects

Cork and wood Simmster for Daniel...

Vacuum Bagged freakiness.  divinicel deck, carbon rails, vacuumed glass

Irene at LB

Nailed it

Finally an alaia that's easy to ride and works really well. This one is unglassed.

#009 for nicaragua

5'9" neckbeard inspired double to single. Doing carbon rails and a divinicel deck. I really loved how tge knifey down rails worked on gianni's frijole so thiis a riff on the same. Race is off to finish by the 11th.

#006 for Nicaragua

Finally ready for spraycoat! This board was a nightmare.
6'6"x19.5x2.5 resin x

Sashimi anyone?

Almost sliced my thumb off trying to dull the edges on this one. Reshaped center fin for the widow. Its finally coming together after serious difficulties with the glass. Im hoping to get into some sick pits with it in nica next month.

Gianni's frijole #008

4'10"x21.25x2.625. Knifey/downrails. Floats me great, for Gianni its practically a longboard.

Happy Birthday Nat!!

This is my first fiberglass handplane...before I stripped off the argyle and went with stripes.

Recycled 6oz glass
Supersap bioresin
Strap cover out of Patagonia ripped up Wetsuits.

The super eco board

Bubble wrap under vacuum

Couldn't tell if it was working so I took it out. Ordered a sick vac setup today. I've got some cork, divincel, carbon and balsa o play with too. Im read rock on the compsands, with 3 boards in the cue to finish this month. Can't wait!

Colab with the grey ghost.

How could I not share the stoke on my favorite board? Joey Clams came by the shop after the fish fry to pick up some lord board blanks and we decided to shape one on the spot. He might be the only other guy in the water with one of these on log island. He also hooked me up with some numbers for my widowmaker fins. Thanks man!

3rd Ward Show

Here's a pic of my carbon/eva flextail finless simmons Gianni took at the 3rd ward show in May.  This was a collaboration with Spoe from Biarritz.  He dropped by the shop and we started shaping it together.  It basically doesn't work unless you squat over the last foot of the board, but a great lesson in the necessity of release in the tail. If I can plow through some other projects I'll grind off some of the tail so its more ridable.

Michelle's 6'0" Simbat #007

Had fun doing paint and resin swirls on this one- my first commission, and 7th glass board.
Pretty flat rockered riff off a Simmons hydroplaning hull.

Widomaker in resin x

Can't wait to finish this.

Hand Shredder

Co-shaped Lord Board with Joey Clams

Super fun geek out session in the shaping bay with Clams yesterday.

Empire Alaia #4, redux #2

The beauty of shaping wood is you can shape it, ride it, reshape it and see what's different. Can't wait to see how it goes with a narrow tail. After the fishfry Im convinced that widepoint forward is the way to go with finless boards.

Consolation prize

Patagonia couldn't send me a new wetsuit-i guess pit rash wasn't under warranty-but they did send me a beer cozie made out of an R2 suit. Consolation prize I guess.

Surf report 3/24/11

I thought spring was here...guess not.

The twinny has finnys.

Ready for the art of señor pickles.

Update on the Mistakes

While waiting for the glass to cure on the caribou I ripped the glass off the bottom of "the mistake" and reshaped it.  It's now about 4 inches shorter- 5'7"x a little thinner x a little narrower with lighter glass on bottom and a split tail.  It was a hack job, but I didn't want to take the deck off too. Since it already didn't surf great, I've got nothing to lose but foam and fiberglass. The caribou (5'11" fat 80's style twin) is coming along too.  Both are hotcoated, just have to clean them up with the sander-both are getting sanded finish, then fins for the caribou.  Next weekend is PR immersion testing.  Can't wait!!

The Caribou

Maybe because its winter, I don't know why but this one is the caribou.  The learning curve on doing perimiter stringers from scratch was tough. Its crazy how hard it is to see the curves when you have 2 colors of wood and foam. Finally I started to look at just the light and it clicked.

Boardbags

A friend expressed interested in doing some boardbag designs so here are some pics of my first attempts. These go with two of my alaias (thanks ilmi for the idea).  I passed a fabric store in the east village that was going out of business last Fall and now I have a pile of fabric just waiting to take shape, hint, hint...