the solitude of surfaces: June 2009

Sunday, June 28, 2009

Spotted at point dume this morning

Saturday, June 27, 2009

Friday, June 26, 2009

Thursday, June 25, 2009

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

crooked roads

improvement makes straight roads, but the crooked roads without improvement are the roads of genius.
william blake.

I was just thinking to myself this morning how I really don’t want to have to buy another board from someone else. I would much rather make my own now. I like certain aspects of certain boards I’ve seen, but I don’t feel like shelling out $500-800 for another off the shelf board, or pay someone else to interpret what I want my board to be for me. i think that actually experiencing the effects of each modification and directly being able to address them is most interesting to me. Just relaxing.

Yeah, I agree with you that glassed on fins are still pretty crafty. So much of that craft went out the window when detachable fins came around.

Fins are such a huge part of the working of a board that the point at which it connects to the board seems like such a critical moment that should be considered with more effort and detail than just sticking a base plug in a hold and screwing it down you know?.

Lates,

Monday, June 22, 2009

002-003

it may not look like it yet, but this here will be a 6'6" pintail in a second..

Sunday, June 21, 2009

No more bicycle

Happy summer solstice!

C-street
21junho09

Saturday, June 20, 2009

001-002

the thinner version.

sandcrawler

someone posted this comparision recently and it made me really think back on how much i loved that sandcrawler. amazing design.

Friday, June 19, 2009

The neighbor's cat, in plan.

Blue skies_6.19.09

Thursday, June 18, 2009

wtf 3

my worst nightmare.

latigo point

latigo! looking pretty damn fun.

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

glassing's done

it's not as squatty as it looks.

anderson's glassing is finally done, but still waiting on my rainbow smoke speed dialers.

they put in future boxes although i told them lokbox!! what a stress. and they sneakily snuck in their usa logo. ug.

6oz + 4oz deck, 4oz bottom.
5'11" x 20" x 2.5"

things i'd already change: take another 1/4-1/2" out of the gut, thin nose and tail feathers. got to get a david plane to deal with the irregular stringer ridge issue. pull in fin cup. soften rails more from last third up (we'll see how this goes tho). test ride tomorrow am: malibu. lates.