Archive for December, 2012

The first step in the lamination process is installing the fin boxes.  This is a batch of boards about to have the Future boxes installed.

If you want to feel like bait or chum, this is the board for you.

This is a custom board shaped like a fish and airbrushed like a fish.

This is Mike Casey creating the chambers that make a wood board light.  After hollowing out all the slices of board he will glue the board back together and then finish shaping it.  After that is finally ready for glassing.

Australian Adam Melling has won the Vans World Cup of Surfing, taking home $40,000 and re-qualifying himself for his spot on the ASP World Tour for 2013.

Read below for the ASP press release:

Australian Adam Melling, from Lennox Head NSW, has won the US$250,000 VANS World Cup of Surfing at Sunset Beach, Hawaii – exactly what he needed to retain a position on the ASP World Tour for 2013. Melling, 27, won US$40,000 and moved to equal ...

It’s that time of year and there are batches of guns going through the factory.  These three are for one customer who requested marble foam stains.

The polish on Mike Casey’s gun looks like glass.  On regular PU board heat is always a concern when polishing.  Too much heat and the fiberglass will get a waffle pattern.  On a wood board you do not need to worry about heat which makes the polish will really stand out.

This is a batch of big wave guns ready for the decks to be laminated.  This time of year we have a lot of guns and tow boards going through the factory.

“Don’t look for that slidey shit at Sunset.”

Commenting on the decidedly anorexic surfboards of the Momentum Generation, former professional surfer-turned-cultural critic Dave Parmenter denounced this new, gymnastic style of riding (tailslides, reversals, aerials) as foiling the ergonomic essentials of power, speed and flow — speculating that that kind of surfing wouldn’t likely find favor in huge, powerful, open-ocean waves like Sunset or G-Land.
Nearly 20 years later, Parmenter’s prediction ...

If you put one 12’0 Brewer gun in the rack it makes everything else looks small.  That 12’0 gun has custom stringers, 1″ bass wood center and 1/2 bass wood outside stringers.  It also has Koa Wood single fin with a halo.