The New Shop

I haven't posted anything for quite a while now. I have been busy building out my new shop! Here are some photos from the process. It all started with four walls and one flourescent light... I had some help from a couple wise guys (uncle Sonny and my dad)... I would probably still be figuring out how to frame a wall if it wasn't for them.

Two walls up:

Three walls up!

Time for some drywall...

Woah! A hall way!

Slowly looking like the shaping room...

Getting the wiring all finished...ZAAAP!

Time to paint...

Here is the mysterious airbox...

air compressor fits in the airbox...

All boarded up and the lid...

And here it is...the mysterious airbox, and it works as a thinking chair!

Made a cool fin clamp that fits in my shaping racks.

A homemade surfboard wall rack!

And I am finished! About three weeks of hard work, and a little elbow grease and now, it's time to shape!

A Faria Adventure

While taking a break after some mind boggling noserides up at Rincon Last week, Preston and I decided to go on a little adventure. We found this spooky cave that we had to go explore...
Here is the starting of our adventure. We were told to beware of Trolls and snake pits!

It was pretty dark inside...we had a sense, but never knew what was learking in the shadows...probably the trolls.

The weirdest part of this cave was that we grew larger and larger the farther in we went. We grew so big that eventually we were crawling through the long and gruesome tunnel on our hands and knees!

After jumping over snake pits and alligators, and escaping the cave trolls (they were incredibly loud, but more annoying than anything) we made it through to the other side...of the street.

And on the other side was this beautiful lagoon filled with crystal brown muddy water. Nothing better than a good adventure and some great imagination!

the end.

Workin' on Fins today...

Jason's new board

This custom "Solo Series" board came out beautiful! Teal greenish blue resin tint on top with a black inlay on bottom, and of course a matching wood fin with the same color of teal tint.

Sneeky Peeks for Michael Dixon

I kinda had some fun with his board: abstract resin swirls, wide cutlaps, volan glass, and last but not least...ghost bands! These swirlies came out pretty cool...

Trevor Crowell on his 9'0" Competition

Here is Preston's little brother Trevor Crowell. Rumor has it that he has been killing it lately on his 9'0" Competition model. Photo by Tom English.

finished this board yesterday

10oz Volan, 3 cedar stringers, resin pinlines, patchwork fabric inlay, a custom wood fin and a matching tailblock, this board has all the bells and whistles! For the fin, I used zebrawood, bolivian rosewood, and maple...probably could have used a softer wood to make the fin and tailblock out of, but these types of wood just looked too pretty to pass up. The patchwork took a long time to do, but I think the outcome was well worth it.