Life vs Work; Working and blogging again.

Susan Martin Cherry

Nov.  1,  1943 ~ Mar. 7, 2012

Beloved Wife, Mother, Sister

I will always love you.  You will remain in our hearts forever.

Susan, Lacy and Chopper

Susan and Chopper

Susan Martin Cherry and brother, Terry Martin.  Terry's shaping room at Hobie 

Sadly, My Susan lost her courageous battle against lung cancer on March 7th of this year.  She was first diagnosed in February, 2011.  She fought to become one of the several-year survivors with a constant positive attitude and utmost dignity.   God had a different plan.  Susan was blessed with the knowledge to choose to live in the solution always, the capacity to care more for others than herself even in her darkest times and the ability to stay in the moment and enjoy each day on a daily basis as they were given to her.

I was blessed to Marry her in 1999 and spend 13 beautiful years with her.  I had hoped to have many more.

I will be in love with her always.  If God is kind I will be with her again.

With much love and aloha, John and Susan Cherry

Back to work.

8.5" Frye template box fin for Thomas Campbell

Custom keel set for Thomas Campbell ~ 80 / 20 foil

Glass-on Marine ply fins.  The smaller ones went to Mitch's in Solana beach.  I have the (3) larger ones in stock

JC custom template quad set for 7-0 long-fish

Simm-21 set s/f  keels for Wavesforever and Bruce Cochrane 

5-10 Simm-21 set for Yuichi of  Wavesforever.   http://www.wavesforever.com/

American black walnut, African mahogany, white flame maple

11'-0" Cherry Surfboards fish-simmons and 10'10" Gordon and Smith for Christopher tomlin

This is the LAST G&S label board ever made.  Shaper: Steve Seabold.  Custom fins:  J. Cherry

Singlefin: lacewood     Quad set: solid curly koa

Curly koa over Baltic birch marine ply

Early Velzey~Jacobs pig template for Steve Mast.  It's now on a beautiful pig shape by Steve, headed for Japan .  African mahogany, birds-eye maple, Peruvian walnut pin lines.

7'2" Simm-21 set.  Sapele burl over Finnish birch marine ply.

10'0" Hot-Curl Blank for Terry Martin.  Balsawood and old-growth redwwood.

5'10" Simm-21 set for Yuichi of Wavesforever. http://www.wavesforever.com/

Redwood, Peruvian walnut and flame maple.  Cheater-coated, ready to laminate.

New Box Fins Have Arrived!

I'd have a hard time choosing which is more fun, shaping custom boards.....or building cool fins for them.

But Fins are so much easier to ship!!  I always love getting photos back from friends and clients of their boards with my fins in them or glassed onto them. 

7.0 marine ply box fin for Kris Chatterson in Brooklyn, NY

9.0 box fin for Francesco Di Tommaso's Tyler gun, Bari Italy

Thanks to Kris and Francesco for taking the time to send the cool photos of their boards

Aloha,  JC

New Box Fins

The 9.0 fin is for my buddy Francesco in Bari Italy.  The 7.0 Marine ply Frye template is for Kris Chatterson in New York.

 Woods:  Flame maple, Macassar ebony, red glue lines

9.0 Center Box fin for Francesco's Tyler Gun

Francesco picked up a new 9'-2" Tyler fun-gun this summer, A beautiful double-ender with a deep red opaque lay-up, a yellow-gold tint on the deck and an olive brown pinline on the cut lap.  He needed a box fin for it, so this is what I came up with.

Woods:  Flame Maple over (2) flame maple veneer layers with a center of Macassar ebony

I used red glue for the lamination..  In this photo the fin is cheater-coated, ready to be laminated and the base laid up for the box.  Aloha Bro,  JC

#3 for Kevin Ho, Hawaii ~ Tyler Surfboards "Zeke" template fin.

In early 2009 I made the 9.75" glass-on for Kevin and Tyler, shown in the bottom 2 photos.  It looked great on Kevin's apple-green tint, Tyler longboard.  I'm guessing it works great as well.  I just sent Kevin his 3rd version of the same fin, this 9.75" box fin. 

#3    9.75"  box fin

 #2   8.75"  box fin

 #1   9.75" glass-on fin

Aloha KH