Shop Shots

My shop is a work in progress, fortunately people need their boards fixed. I have some freshies to glass and maybe even a couple to shape so working on the shop will have to wait. Thank you to everybody for all the business and support. 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.

This is Nor Cal

I was going through my pictures the other day and I realized that I have a bunch that never made it onto the blog. Here is a sampling of a Nor Cal summer.

God has truly blessed us to be living in such a beautiful place and doing something we love and we thank Him for all of it.

Abalone diving of a stand up paddle board

Shaping

Sunsets

Surfboards

Making skimboards with friends

Glassing

 a little more shaping, Derek used some sweet colored lighting on this one.

And of course surfing,

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.

Big Fish For Justin

Justin builds houses and lives on a secluded beach in Southern California (Venice, anything but secluded). Justin is a big guy that is used to riding even bigger surfboards at secrets spots like Malibu. He is a long time family friend and we stared talking about surfing and surfboards which led to talk of fishes. Justin was stoked on the idea of a shorter board that still had the float and stability that he was used to. This is what materialized from that conversation, a 6'10" x 22 1/2" x 3" fish for all those solo sessions in LA County. Jake

Neto Teddy

My buddy Ted invented a pretty cool system of putting magnets in your board under your front foot. I have been testing it out in one of my shortboards and it is really fun. I have been installing quite a few systems lately and Ted put together this installation video at my shop the other day. Enjoy and check out his website Neto Grip for more info. Jake

Shaping Monday

Getting ready to do some shaping this morning, Derek from Derek Magdalik Photography came by the other day and got some cool shaping shots that I will be posting soon. This is a couple to tease you with. They can also be seen at Derek Magdalik Photography- Noserider Vol. 3. Jake

Surfboard Reconstruction

Tex is the head wine maker at a prestigious winery in the beautiful Anderson Valley. This is Tex's surfboard which he will be riding when he is not fermenting grape juice. The deck on this board was badly de-laminated so I had to take the deck off inlay some new foam to replace the flaky old foam and then re-glass the deck. Tex wanted to see the process so I took some pictures for him and here they are. Jake

The New Bay

Here is a shot of the new shaping bay, we have all ready been having a lot of fun in this one. More pictures from shaping sessions with Derek coming soon. Jake

Sticks and Buckets

                                               Both expertly shot by Derek Magdalik Photography

Glass-ing

My Buddy Derek from Derek Magdalik Photography came by a little while back and took some amazing photos of me glassing a board, he makes me look good. We are getting together this week to continue shaping his new 10'6" Noserider. These sessions are fun because we are both hard at work in our respective fields, he's behind the lens and I am behind the planer. Maybe this time we should switch tools for a minute or two and see what happens. If we do I will post the results, I am sure they will be entertaining. I can take some amazingly blurry pictures. Here are a few of Derek's beautiful Photographs you can see more by clicking on this link http://www.lazyiproductions.com/lazyiproductions/Info.html Enjoy, Jake

FATTY FIBERGLASS

There has been lots of work going on at JNS Boards, as many of you know I have taken Fatty Fiberglass over from Leslie Anderson. I am happy to say that I glass like a girl, I have been apprenticing with Leslie for the past couple of years and she has been a great teacher. She moved up north (about as far north as possible in the united states) and is stoked on her new life. I am honored that she would pass her business on to me and excited to continue it in Fatty Tradition. We have moved into her old location out highway 20 which is all set up for production, well almost all set up. I spent the day creating a new shaping bay, my friend Dylan and I moved old surfboards and stacks of wood around for hours until a wall was formed. As you can see from the photo there is foam that needs to be mowed. We will add a little paint and throw up some lights and it will be ready to rock(I thought about leaving the walls red for about five second and then opted against it, red is not the new blue). Here are some images from around the shop right now, what fun!

Fish Stories and a Salt Water Wash

Yesterday I got to go salmon fishing with my pops. It was a beautiful day on the water and I reeled this bad boy in with in seconds of hitting the fishing ground at about 6:30 am. epic

My friends dog was very interested in the Fish

After fishing I went back to the house and worked with Dylan to finish up his board. All polished and pretty. He was so stoked to have it done. We ran down to the beach just before dark to complete the final step in the surfboard building process, the salt water wash. Any day that begins and ends with fish is a good

day. Jake

Glossy Day

We have been super busy here at JNS Boards since we got back from North Carolina. As promised here some actual surfboard pictures. I glossed this board today, a buddy and I shaped  it last December, he moved away and brought the board back  a couple of days ago to finish it off. It's great to be back at it. Jake

First Fish

We have been on a little vacation to North Carolina and my little boy caught his fist fish his past week. He was super stoked. I will be home this weekend and back to work so stay tuned for some more pictures of actual surfboard making going on.