Wallpaper

Go on... rip it down and put it on your desktop.

If you didn't receive this in the post... you'll just have to order your own.

Happy Birthday Cesar! (for thursday)

Feeling Lucky?

One sexy 5'8" Mod fish...

Polished, carefully packaged and in the post heading towards...

somebody...

Better cross your fingers aye...

Somebody's surfboard

Ahhh the fill coat...i like how it's always so glossy

Is this your fish?

The recipe...

Seventeen different sanding blocks, six planes, a wooden blank and a double album of gatecrasher...

Chambered...

Chambering the board was easy...once I found the right tool bit!

All hollowed out and glued back together. Just like it was before except now its lighter.

Outlined, profiled, foiled....and split.

The mug shot...

Once the resin hits this board the detail will be popping!

I'm always slightly nervous when it comes time to split it open.

Now it's time to make it hollow.

Anyone for lattice?

Two lattices with over 600 blocks of wood in each...plus stringers...

I'm estimating a mere 1350 bits of wood in this board...

Is this your board blank?

Someone, somewhere in the world has been awesome enough to order a board for someone else..all covert like. Sneaky sneaky...

Just quickly cropped a photo before glueing up the blank to give someone an idea of what it will look like.

Nose Surgery

The hammerhead fish has had nose surgery

Outlined and profiled ready for shaping.

Headless fish...

gets a head transplant...

The hammerhead retro fish!

Strung...

After just a bit more cutting and gluing..

the simmons is now all stringered up.

Patience...

It may look just like yesterdays posts....

but it's progress.

A limited number of clamps and glue drying times, both conspire to draw out the anticipation of achieving what you set out to make.

Inspired...

I was inspired to build this stringer out of scraps after seeing a photo of a guitar neck...

Once all glued it will be a thirteen strip lattice just under an inch wide.

I just need to build a board to put it into now...

Stringer building 101

Plane and cut cedar and balsa scraps, many colours, many sizes...

Add glue...

Clamp...

Stay tuned for next installment with more cutting and gluing..

Green machine..

This one is in the rack for sale @ $1800 NZD.

5'9 x 20 7/8 x 2 1/4 quad fish. Finished weight just 7 1/2lbs.

Solid balsa, glassed 10 oz top and bottom with green tinted epoxy.

Skull and roses deck graphics with gold flecks, pinlines and a gloss finish.

Glass leash bridge.

Quad fin setup. Motivation lines boxes, totally compatible with FCS fins.

Built for speed with low rocker and a single concave.

This one's fast, loose and wants to be ridden.