A FEW SHOTS OF JARED

Here's a few shots of Jared

on his 9"6" Los Creeper

STEVE'S 10' HOG

10' x 17 1/2" x 22 1/2" x 16" x 3 3/8"

Olive green tint tail

black resin band

6'4" DYNAMO WING PIN

HAPPY DAYS

IT'S TO GOOD TO BE TRUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

JIVE KING FLYER

Here is a flyer panted by Tom Vadakan for 

the Surfrider party on Friday .

I'm super stoked to get to play some music for this event, 

There will also be a silent auction for a 9'6" Noseglider

 that I am building. 

It is ok to bring the kids, so bring the family and rock out.

TROY & SHANE

A few new Old Pleasures.

Troy's coke bottle green 9'3"

And 

Shane's kelp orange 8'10"

THE JIVE KINGS

Well here we go, it's been about a year since we have played

 and who knows when we will do it again.

December 5th we will be playing at the Dana Point Hennesseys

for a Surfrider party.

 More info to come

NEW FINS

 A few new fins Captain Fin Company is putting out.

The top on is the Old Pleasure template and the bottom the Noseglider.

Super cool artwork by Jay Acuna.

I'm stoked 

ENTER TO WIN

Here is one you have to get involved with.

Go to thaliasurf.com

and sign up to win five surfboards.

THREE STRINGER HOG

Mike's 10' hog three stringer

WIND WAVE ACTION

A  few photos from the other morning.

Me on my 8'4" "V" bottom and troy getting some 

tube time on his 5'5" fish.

Photos from dalybread.blogspot.com 

JESS ON HIS NEW NOSEGLIDER

A few photos of Jess on his new Noseglider

A FEW TO CHECK OUT

PHOTOS FROM THE SHAPING ROOM

Here are some cool photos shot by  Phillip Ruppert

 a student at OCC.

9'6" NOSEGLIDER FOR JESS

9'6" x 18 x 23 x16 x 3 1/8

Built this one start to finish myself.

A lot of work goes into building a board 

like this, but it's pretty rewarding

when it gets picked up and the person is stoked.

Jess will be spending a lot of time in the red on this one. 

CHARLIE HANGING TEN

Here's a pretty cool shot of Charlie Waite hanging ten

with a family watching from the Pier.

photo from dalybread.blogspot.com

Howlin' Wolf - Smokestack Lightning (1964)

Been pretty busy with work and the surf has been super good, 

so I have not had much time to post anything new.

Here is something to tap your feet to.

ANOTHER REDO

Here is a redo for Mike L.

It's a 6'7" stringerless with a black glue line center

 and red foam offsets 

JUST DELIVERED TO MOLLUSK SF

Some boards delivered to Mollusk SF yesterday

CARL HAYWARD ROCKET FISH

    I had the privilege to work for Carl Hayward for a few years. He was a awesome person that taught me a lot about building surfboards.
    My Friend Eugene bought this Hayward fish at a garage sale and rode it to death. So a few years back we did a redo with same airspray and all.
   Since then I have done a few here and there, but I never got to show Carl before he pasted away, I think he would be stocked.

"V" BOTTOM FUN

Some photos from this morning.

Wind was on it and it was smaller then it has been

but I went out just to get wet, and ended up having a really good time.

photos from dalybread.blogspot.com 

A FEW NOSEGLIDERS

A FEW MORE SHORT ONES

This is Brian's 5'10" Dynamo. He was  the color laminator

at Pureglass at one time. He has since moved to Santa Cruz

to work for Stretch surfboards.  

Steve's 6'6" Cosmic Slider

(three fin Bonzer)

WEEKEND SURF TRIP..........FAMILY STYLE

Me and my family (minus my daughter who was in New York) 

spent last weekend in San Diego.

surfed a lot, ate a lot of great food

 and my son Jack got into the swing of things surfing Swamis. 

We also stopped by the Longboard Grotto, was super bummed to see that they were going out of business. They are selling off there inventory and there are some great buys. Got these two dvd's.  The Fantastic Plastic Machine has some great footage of Nat Young and Bob Mctavish on "v" bottoms. I had never seen the movie Freeform before, but it has some awesome footage of Nat Young and Wayne Lynch riding shortboards. 

THE PRETTY THINGS

The Pretty Things doing a little Slim Harpo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BALSA

9' x 16 1/2 x 21 1/2 x 15 1/2 x 3 1/4

I built this solid balsa board for Mike C a few months ago.

A lot of work goes into building a board like this.

Most shapers these days buy  the wood already glued up, 

have it cut on a computer shaping machine and just fine sand it.

I prefer to cut the rocker in to it, glue it up and hand shape them myself.

It just seems like that is the way they should be built. 

And yes, it is very heavy.

MID-LENGTH PLEASURE

I let this board sit for along time. 

Finally finished it this morning

and had a blast on it.

8'4" x 17 1/4 x 22 x 17 x 3 1/4

"V" bottom

WHAT ONCE WAS, IS NOW?

What once was the pignar is now the 

SUPER NAR NAR!

Two dots, a bit wider nose, square or pin tail, 

and a totally sweet square fin.