Jesse's mini-gun for Costa Rica

ramping up for his yearly foray to costa rica, jesse poyer orders up a mini gun to compliment his fish. we basically took the outline of a 7'4", cut 4 inches of the nose and slightly rounded it. a nice, compact package that will handle size and paddle well.

Javier's new " Pescado Gordo"

saturday morning board pick-ups at the factory...always a fun time. long time friend javier fabrega's latest one, a super wide twin keel for summer. 5'8" x 22 1/2" x 2 7/8"..pulled out of a 610 Rhyno for just the right rocker with plenty of foam left to get a clean deck line. rather than glass-ons, we went with the F-3 system which takes either fcs or futures...lots of possibilities.

New one for spring

finally getting up and running at work....working at a slow pace but in there nonetheless.

shaped this one last weekend out of a 1.9# marko...it's meant to bridge the gap between performance shortboard and round nose fish. some guys just can't get past the extra nose width of a fish..it kinda hinders the vertical attack in smaller surf. this board has enough planing width to catch waves like a fish but will turn tighter in the pocket and off the top.

got to come up with a catchy name...

it's 5'7" x 19 1/4" x 2 3/8"...eps/epoxy and weighs in right at 5 lbs.

Franken-planer

the more i use this thing, the more i like it.....it's a hitachi p-20 stretched out enough to mimic the ergonomics of a skil 100, but light enough that i won't (hopefully) tear my rotator cuff off the bone again...i used the stock hitachi depth adjustment knob with a 3/16" allen wrench in conjunction with a clark modified front shoe...feels nice so far..

but the depth adjustment is way sloppier, but i'll take that over another major surgery...

haha!

anyone that uses a hitachi/clark mod planer has got to be going "huh?"...how did the handle get so far back?...a sunday afternoon in the workshop and a lot of filing and epoxy.........

Back in the saddle (no, not yet)

went in to try and glass the shape from my previous post...thankfully i used this as a test run for epoxy laminations on urethane blanks...i had all the time in the world and needed it ....i can't lift my right arm past 8:00 o'clock (visualize it) so laminating is going to be the main impediment to me getting back up and running at work...if i can't glass 'em, they're not getting done....geez....

still managed to get it glassed!

Back in the saddle (sort of)

put on my green hi-tops and took the morning of st. patrick's day to turn the rails and tune up a practice shape prior to getting back to work sometime next week. tinkered with the shape off and on for the last week or so, mostly having to resort to using my left hand...was able to use the right arm today if i kept it pinned to my side. not bad for a 9 week layoff.

the shape is something i've been wanting to do since i got back on my twin fins late last year...this is a real performance twin for our area...it's not a retro shape in any way...basic high performance short board dimensions tweaked a bit to allow for a heavy front foot drive through your turns but still a controlled cutback off the back foot...less nose (ears) facilitates a more vertical (conventional thruster) attack.

winter quiver / west side Oahu

As per the previous post, tully sends a photo...not a board shot but great pic of him in very sizeable point surf at makaha. there's a lot of salt mist in the foreground so it's difficult to make him out but if you enlarge it...whoa...heavy.

the quiver tie-in is that he's on an 8'10" i shaped him back in the fall of 2006....chris christenson was in town and shaped a couple of fishes in my factory, i glassed them, etc. i wondered that since he was shaping brad gerlach's guns at that time, could he help me draw out an decent 8'10"?? he was more than gracious to share and used some of my outdated willis bros. and brewer templates to piece together what turned out be be a really nice gun...he even gave up bottom contours, rocker, fins...like i said, gracious and turning it into a fun project.

still have the template taken off that finished board in the stack in my shaping room...now,if i can just get tully to shoot a pic before the board snaps...