Thursday, June 21, 2012

"The Dylan"




This board got finished (team effort) and surfed yesterday. Dylan even let me ride it and I had a blast, cheater fives all day. I can't wait to make myself one, it's all about having fun in the ocean and this board is fun. It is 9'1" x 23" x 3" and the outline is a combination of the nose curve of "The Picker" and tail curve of Steve's S-Deck. Dylan has a sandwich named after him at one of the shops in town and I used to order it for lunch all the time when I was working at the surf shop. I think I will name this model "The Dylan" (after the sandwich, of course). Jake 

Thursday, June 14, 2012

Enviro Mental Sup


I have been working with Entropy Epoxy Resins recently and I am really stoked on them. I met the guys that invented the system and watched them do a few demos at sacred craft last year. The Resins are made using pine tree sap and other bio materials that are waste products from the bio fuel and wood processing industries. You can check out their website for the full scoop at http://www.entropyresins.com/. I just finished my wife's paddle board and it is made with recyclable foam from Marko Foam and glassed using Entropy's Super Sap resin. We put it in the river the other day and it feels really good, i think we could get the whole family on it. I will be finishing a 5'5" Avocado for Teddy next week built using recyclable foam and Super Sap resin. I will make sure you get to see it when it's done. Jake

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Sqaure Nose Teddy

This board is for Teddy, his friend Jay down in Malibu shaped it, and drew the fish. Teddy has been digging the square noses and tails recently so he chopped of the nose and we did a little customizing before I painted and glassed it. I threw in some JNS bottom contour just how Teddy likes, tuned up some things here and there, and took it to the glassing room. Jake