Avocado Squared

This is Teddy's New Avocado. We changed this one up a bit, it's a little narrower with a more pulled in tail and a chopped nose. It is made with a recyclable EPS foam and Entropy's sustainable epoxy system. Glassed with a 6oz bottom and a 6/4 deck with a three quarter 4oz deck patch but with a weight of only 6.2 pounds means performance that will last.

5'5" x 19 1/4 x 2 1/2 Single concave to deep spiral V and five fin boxes for endless possibilities. Jake

"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 

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

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

Boat Board 4 Royce

6'2" x 18 3/4 x 2 5/16

I learned to surf with Royce at our local beach break during middle school. We surfed together most days in high school and then we went our separate ways. Royce went down to Santa Barbara to urchin dive which means that he has an excuse to go surf the channel islands which are only accessible by boat. This will be his new boat board for small to medium point waves miles off shore. Jake

Free Form Lam-N-ation

Stub-Nose Picker

Dylan and I had some fun on this one. He helped me shape it up a couple days ago on his birthday and then we got into some tint this morning and this is what we came up with. No need to tape the stripes, just free form them in during lamination, right. Jake

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

4 year Old Fisher Man

I got to take my four year old to a stocked trout pond this morning. It was so fun, he slayed 'em. 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  

From Fin Panel to Fin

 I used a carbide blade for my multi-tool to cut the fin out of the panel. It worked great a little slow going but great non the less.

wear a respirator for foiling, its dusty. I used a grinder to rough shape the fin and then my Milwaukee sander turned upside down to finish the foiling.

 Finished, now glass it on, hot coat, sand, gloss, polish and ride. This board will get polished tomorrow morning. I am stoked with how it is looking. I will make sure you see the finished product when it is done. Jake

Peanut Butter Chocolate Swirl

 I had fun with this one. It makes me want to grab a spoon and dig in. Jake

Itchy Time

This fin panel is ready and I get to turn it into a fin, which means that I will spend the next couple days itching and scratching. A couple surfs should take care of the itch and any excuse to surf is a good okay in my book. Jake

Wesley has been fascinated with the camera. He just snaps away and every once in a while he gets a good one.

 

This is a board I made for my wife a couple years ago and that is Wesley's hand print, they grow up quick.

1 Mans Trash Part 2

It didn't take long after I posted the pictures of those Skip Frye boards for Derek from Fotomendo.com to show up with his camera. He grew up seeing those guys in the water so he told me some cool stories while he took these beautiful photos. Derek posted the shots on his website and wrote a little bit about the experience in his classic style. To read what he wrote and see the other pictures that he took click HERE. Jake

Ketchup & Mustard Pinlines

        
                                                             For some serious Hotdogging

 

(sorry, the mind comes up with some silly things while sanding)

shape by Ernie, glass by Me. Jake

One Mans Trash

I went over to my friend Pat's house yesterday, he is moving and was getting ready to make a dump run. He wanted to give me a shot at taking some of his old boards home before he trashed them. Pat is a knee boarder that sometimes stands up and surfs. Long ago when I was just a grom, Pat gave me my first real surfboard, a 5'6" Skip Frye egg that was headed to dump but still had some life in it. I rode that thing for years until it disapeared never to be found again. The boards I picked up yesterday are not in great shape but there were definitely some nuggets in there. There was a 5'8" Skip Frye Fish and a long board with a double eagle tail (I think that is what he calls it) shaped by Skip. Also a few Larry Mabiles of varying sizes and two knee boards shaped by Paul Kraus who I apprenticed with. It was really fun to go see and hear about all these boards and then load them up and bring them home.Thanks Pat, Jake

Website Launch

I have been working on a website for JNS boards, it will have more board pictures as well as price lists and a downloadable order form. It is still a bit of a work in progress but here is what I have so far...

http://jnsboards.weebly.com/

I will be adding more to the website in the next couple days so check back soon. Jake

Back to Work (Sort Of)

Thanks to everyone for their patience and support in the last couple weeks, we have been having a great time getting to know our new little one and having some wonderful family time. I am back to work so you should be getting a call from me soon if you are waiting on a board. This week i will just be in the shop in the afternoons but next week I will be back at it full time. Thanks again, Jake

Simster In Foam and Redwood

This beauty is still up for grabs. It has an 1/8'' redwood deck inlayed into the foam and then glassed over, hand made redwood twinzer fin set-up. This board has been featured in a a couple blog posts that you can find at:
http://www.minisimmonssurfboards.com/6-redwood-deck-simster/
http://jnsboards.blogspot.com/2012/02/6-redwood-deck-simster.html

OR you can go see it at Lost Surf Shack in Fort Bragg, Ca


Price Reduced: $750
Originally : $999

Owens Birthday

Owen Mason Sacks was born today at 5:56pm he was 9 pounds 1 ounce and 20 inches long. We are so stoked. God is so good. Jake