6 foot Avocado in Blu

Dreaming about riding this beauty

Jacob picked up his board this weekend and we took it straight to the beach for a surf. He even let me grab a few waves on it. The wind was blowing pretty hard out of the south so we found a little cove to hide in. The waves weren't great but the board felt good at 6'0" x 20 1/4"x 2 5/8" it paddles great and feels nice and stable. I did a blue resin tint to add to Jacob's art works. The mean looking wolf on the bottom is a print that Jacob made, it should scare away anything in the ocean that might want to feed on it. Five fin boxes for limitless fin combinations. Single concave with spiral vee off the tail to control water flow and enhance maneuverability. On a non surfboard related topic, today is Owen's due date so he could come into the world at any time. We are super excited to meet him and see who God has made. Jake

Paddle Board Mama

Our Friend Julie met us down at the beach this week to take some pictures of our pregnant family. It had just rained and the beach was all puddley and beautiful. We brought a paddle board down and Nikki did some paddling, thanks Julie. Jake

Election Year Vote Now

Politics don't really do it for me. What does do it for me is epic surfing, and that's what you should vote for. The voting for the Innersection 2 best video part ends on March 30th so vote now at http://innersection.tv/. While your there vote for Brett Barley's part which can be seen at http://www.brettbarley.com/ Brett grew up on the Outer Banks of North Carolina and kills it. Since I am on the subject of the Outer Banks my friend Chris has been making some really nice hand planes over there his website is http://www.lumberseadogs.com/ take a gander at it, he is doing all kinds of cool stuff. While I am passing out links check out this song from Josh Garrels, I have been listening to this song and the rest of the album non stop in the shop for the past couple weeks and it is great. The whole album is available for free download at his website. That's enough for now, back to making surfboard. Jake

Adams Alaia

Abalone Accent

Glassed this interesting alaia for a guy from Australia named Adam. Adam travels the world building and riding alaias. Look for him at the Bells Beach WCT competition. If you can't make it to the comp check out his website here http://pcockalaias.blogspot.com/ . Jake

Photo Essay: Painting an Avocado with Jacob Hewko

Jacob spent a couple days at the shop working on his new Avocado. These pictures are in chronological order so you can see the progression. He finished up last night and now it's time to glass, light blue. Jake

Shaper Portrait TSJ Style

Derek from www.fotomendo.com called me the other day all excited because he was renting a special wide angle lens to shot some architectural pictures. He wanted to come by and take some pictures of me int the shaping bay because the lens was able to get the whole bay. The Surfers Journal just came out with a article about San Diego shapers shot with a similar lens so it was fun to see what we could come up with. Here's what Derek got. click here for a little more explanation of the technical side of the photo and another picture with the concaves of Steve's S-Deck really showing. That Marko blank in the background could be your next EPS Fish. Jake