For Steve

10' x 23 1/2 x 3 1/4 Old growth redwood, Kelp resin tint, Resin pin lines, 3 inch cut laps, the works. Jake

10 ft.r, More Redwood and a Fresh Avocado

I got to work on Steve's new 10' S-Deck BOSS style long board (deck pictures to come soon) with 1/2 inch redwood stringer. I got the stringer from a friend of mine, Matt Yager that I used to help mill wood and work on his property. He has a lot of old growth redwood stock piled and his company is all set up to sell and ship it to those that need some good lumber. Matt asked me to take some pictures of the board and stringer for his website that will be featuring a custom stringer material section. If your interested check out his website www.sequoiavista.com and send him an email for more info. As you can see the wood he has is beautiful stuff.

I also cut out Jacob's new Avocado model, this one is 6'0"x 201/4" x 2 5/8"

Art Show Tonight

The Bookstore

A couple of my boards will be featured in an art show opening tonight at The Bookstore and Vinyl Cafe on Franklin st. in downtown Fort Bragg. It is first Friday so if your around swing in and check them out. There are four or five young artists that will be featured and rumor has it someone will be spinning some old records. I will get some pictures up of the boards and the festivities. Here's a sneak peak, hot coated. Jake

Choking Oldgrowth and Kustom Glu

This board needed something special so I called a good friend that had just the thing for it. I knew my friend would have what this board needed because I used to work for him when I was in high school. One of the things we would do was go down the steep hills that are on his property and find old redwood logs that were left behind the last time it was logged 100 or so years before. Back then if they dropped a tree and the log fell into a tight spot they would just leave it and go to the next tree. There was plenty of redwood and it was all choice first growth. When we found a log that had been left my job was to run choker cables down the hill to the log and once it was hooked up we would drag the log up the hill and mill it into lumber. Now, I am pretty sure that all the wood that I helped mill has all ready been sold but there is a slight possibility that I helped drag the tree that this stringer came from out of the woods. That job sure was fun and so is gluing up a blank with a beautiful half inch old growth redwood stringer.

Four Fins and a Tail Block

I have been making some fins out of these really beautiful pieces of old growth redwood that I have saved over the years. This tail block has been kicking around the shop for a while and I am not sure who made it but it looks like a Paul Kraus creation. He is the master at beautiful glue-ups, combining redwood and balsa for tail blocks, nose blocks and T-bands. These were all sitting on the table together the other day and they looked great so I snapped a picture. Jake