Fresh glass for JB

Glassed these two for surfboards by JB last week. Clear, light and strong with a sanded finish. Jake

Polishing, Polisher, Polished

This is my friend Sam's Christmas board, the woodrum fish. He just sent me this picture and it's fitting because I have been thinking a lot about polishing recently. The series of events that have landed me as owner of Fatty Fiberglass all revolve around polishing. The short version of the story is Leslie Anderson hate polishing so she contacted me to see if I wanted to help her. I moved from North Carolina back to my home town in California to polish for Leslie and apprentice to local shaper Paul Kraus. I learned to polish and in no time Les was teaching me the ends and outs of the whole glassing process. Next thing I know she is handing me the keys to the place and I am the owner, crazy. Polishing is not my favorite thing to do but I am glad it is part of the process. Well, I'm off to polish, Jake  

Library of Jamie

Jamie Murray has a library, a library of surfboards, and some of his buddies have payed for a library card by donating a board to the library. What a great idea. This board is another addition to the library that Jamie shaped and I glassed. It will be seen being ridden by library members in an around Bodega Bay at creeks named after tasty game fish with red meat. Jake

Ernie Shaped It, I Glassed It

We headed south today to drop off a 7'8" I just glassed for Ernie and get a little surf. It was a beautiful sunny 10@13 and Ernie was stoked on his board. He tried to take it out for a surf today but I made him wait to let it cure, he will probably take it out and ride it tomorrow when he knows I won't be looking. Jake

Da Koop

Finished Justin 6'10'' Fish and snapped these pictures in front of the chicken coop. Leslie had a sign on the Coop that says "Da Koop" you can see it in one of the pictures behind the board. While I was over taking these pictures I noticed that Da Koop needed some attention so I cleaned it out good and fixed it up a bit. Sweet fish, happy chickens, good weekend!

Glassed a Neptune For Woody

I am stoke with how this one came out. This 6'5"was shaped by the guys at Neptune/Nor Cal surfshop in Pacific for local charger Woody. I got to coat it in resin and cloth then finish it off with some sanding. Glassed for the North Coast it will spend the rest of it's life riding cold, lonely, waves North of North and loving it. Jake

Team Effort JB & Me

I have been glassing a few boards for another local shaper JB Thomas. Here are a couple that I just finished up, Shape and Airbrush by JB, Glass by Fatty Fiberglass.

Scrap Resin

Once you kick a batch of resin whatever you don't use is gone, it's going to harden. So what do you do with it? (I am open to suggestions) Leslie started pouring it on a wall covered in wax paper to make the crazy art seen in the third picture. I keep adding to it and it's coming along nicely. In the first couple pictures you can see what happens when we pour the scrap into a bucket of water. All those awesome colors in there remind me of good times spent learning this sticky art/craft from Leslie.

Cloth

I have been using a lot of this recently, glassing is good toxic fun. I know "wear a respirator", I do wear it and here is proof.