Showing posts with label glass-on fins. Show all posts
Showing posts with label glass-on fins. Show all posts

Friday, August 2, 2013

Quad Sets Available at Mitch's North in Solana Beach

I just delivered new quad sets to Mitch's Surf Shop in Solana Beach.  Below, center are AK-4's.  L and R are (2) sets in a template that I did for Thomas Campbell and Danny Hess a couple years ago.  Both called it a "magic" fin set.
Below; AK-4's 
More Marine Ply:  Mitch's also has some great twin keel sets available.  In a few days they will also have some popular "D" templates for longboards and Nuueva noserider glass-on single fins available.
Aloha!  JC

5'10" Simm-21 for Scott Campbell

Scott Campbell, from Newport Beach, picking up his freshly glassed Simm-21. 

Saturday, June 29, 2013

8'2" Simm-21 for Dan Wenger

I picked this one up today from Glasser, Michael Miller.  It belongs to Dan Wenger of Rancho Palos Verdes.  Even with a sturdy glass job, including opaque resin panels and a 4" chambered-balsa stringer this board still has a beautifully light weight.  Michael did a flawless glass job (as usual).









Aloha Dan,  JC

Monday, June 24, 2013

Hawaiian Koa

Simple, elegant,  Koa for a 6'3" Simm-21 that I am shaping today.
In these photos fins are shown cheater-coated, ready to laminate.


Wednesday, June 19, 2013

New Simm-21 Rudders

This set is for a 6'-8" For Surya-C in Japan.  The board will have a T-band stringer and volan glass.
Woods:  American black walnut and flame maple. 
This set is for Simm-21 #50, featured in the previuos post.
The wood is redwood burl. 
both sets shown cheater-coated, ready to laminate

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

7'6" Simm-21 for Geoff Bergen....Back From the Glasser

This 7'6" is for my friend, Geoff Bergen of Conneticut. Geoff came out to So Cal a couple of months ago to check out the shop and order his custom Simm-21.  I love meeting new friends and I love shaping a board for a certain individual who has related their personal desires for the board that they will be riding.
Michale Miller just nailed it with a beautiful California-gold tint glass job!




Fin Woods: Primavera and Parota with walnut and maple veneers for the pin lines.

Monday, May 27, 2013

Two Mid-Lenght Simm's, 8'2" & 7'6"

This 8'2" Simm-21 with a 4", chambered balsa stringer is for Dan Wenger of L.A.
This big wood, ultra-light and chambered, produced a board that is very nearly the same weight as one from a blue blank with a 1/4" stock stringer!



Dan's fin set 

This 7'-6" Simm is for my friend Geoff Bergen in Conneticut.







Geoff's fin set. 

Friday, May 24, 2013

Pavel Fish Fins

This set I just finished for Rich is going on a caramel colored fish.  I'm sure the finished board will look amazing.   But then, it's hard to go wrong when nature has already done most of the artwork.
Wood: Primavera

Monday, May 13, 2013

Wood Bling

This tri-fin set will go on an Al Merrick gun for Larry Fuller, but not just any gun.  This gun is shaped from solid Sequoia Redwood.  Larry procured the wood and Al is the shaper.  The wood for the board is from a 4000 year old Sequoia redwood that feel in the late 50's or early 60's.  The permit to mill and remove the lumber from the fallen tree was issued in 1962.  It was the last permit of its kind to be issued in the redwood forest.  When this tree was alive and standing it was taller than both the general Sherman and the President trees which are currently the tallest trees in the redwood forest.
Template: C.I. Gun  
Woods:  Redwood burl, Quilted maple with pinlines of Flame koa and redwood burl veneers.




The set below is for another Al Marrick / Larry Fuller Sequoia Redwood gun.  This Particular board was shipped to Washington D.C. to be auctioned off at a special event benefiting the Wounded Warriors Foundation.
Woods: Redwood burl, quilted maple, Flame koa veneer.



Two Simm-21 fin sets.
The first set is for an 8'2" Simm for Dan Wenger from L.A.  The board will have a 4" balsa stringer, opaque resin panels in a light bronze tone outside of the stringer, separated by 1/8" black resin pinlines.

This second set is for a 7'6" Simm for Geoff Bergen in Bristol Connecticut.
The board will have a 1/4" cedar stringer and a full tint in California gold.