After months of work Mike Casey has finally finished his Chinese Cedar Gun.  He started with a 500lb slab of wood.  He got the rough shape down to 125lbs before chambering the blank.  The finished board is 65lbs and has beautiful polish.

Mike Casey went all out on this wood board.  He milled it down from a 50olb piece of wood and made a matching fin with Chinese Cedar.

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.

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…

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.

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.