Holly's Hull

I was pleased to be invited to build the rudder for this incredible, hull-inspired, 9-0 round-pintail. The board was shaped by Steve Mast for Holly Yang, her winter board.
Thank you both. J.C.

Hullacious curves in Steve Mast's shaping bay

Holly, Steve, the new 9-0 on "The Hill" in Encinitas. Delivery day.

single-fin, concaves, wet sand.

J, Cherry 8.75" flex template.

Woods: African mahogany, Indonesian Narra, Flame maple, Peruvian walnut, with maple, cedar and purpleheart pinlines.

Holly Yang, new board, sunset........................Happy camper.

Aloha Holly, J.C.

New Glass-on, framed-art and Box fins

Framed fin for Bruce Cochrane.
Primavera background. Inlaid manatee; flame maple, narra, Brazilian walnut.

Glass-on Reverse "D" template for Terry Martin longboard. Owner: Alex Johnston
Bacote, flame maple, Peruvian walnut and maple pinlines.



9.75" "Zeke" template Glass-on for Tyler Surfboards. Owner Kevin Ho, Honolulu, HI
Peruvian walnut, narra, redwood with maple pinlines.

9.5" box fin for Charlie English, North Carolina. Flame maple with lace sycamore and zircote checkerboard pattern. Probably headed for a Greg Eavey longboard.

8-0, 21st Century, Simmons interpretation

This board was originally ordered by a friend in N. Carolina. He had ridden a 7'4" board of Corky Carrols when he was in Cabo. He said Corky's twin fin looked like a longboard with the back half cut off...but it was fun to ride. He had also just read TSJ's article about RK, Bauguess and the min-simms. We talked about what else he wanted in the board and I ordered a 9-3Y blank with some x-tra nose rocker so I could take the 8-0 template out of it and still have a little rocker.

When he found out how much it cost to ship the board to the east coast he changed his mind.

No Biggy.....but by that time I was too interested in the board to let it go. I went ahead and made this Simmons-ish 8'0" for myself to ride. It has a transitional rail, hard up-rail nose to hard down-rail tail like the original simmons and a wide round-diamond tail. The rest is pretty modern. It has a single-into double bottom. It will have a set of single-foil twins and a small center stabilizer fin placed about 2-1/2" up from the tail. The twins + 1 set up is out of some really cool redwood lace burl. The board is being glassed with a transparent cranberry tint both sides, at Moonlight Glassing of course. I'll keep ya posted.

Custom Wall Racks

Custom wall racks.

Woods: Australian blackwood acacia (1st genetic cousin to Hawaiian Koa acacia) and cocobolo.

These will accommodate Bruce Cochrane's 70's Skip Frye single-fin gun, a family heirloom.

Aloha Bruce.

Half Scale Sculpture

56", 1/2 scale gun. Full scale dimensions would equate to 11"-0 x 18" x 3".

Balsawood, with Peruvian walnut and white maple center T-band stringer done in a chevron pattern bordered by 1/16" cedar. Side stringers are Peruvian walnut, maple and redwood.

4 oz glass.

Center Logo is purple abalone and silver lip clam shell.

Custom stand is African mahogany, cherry and pauduk.

Fin: Lace sycamore over Peruvian walnut.

Purple abalone, white silver lip clam shell.


Lamination. 4 oz. Ready for hot coat.

"The Greatest shaper on the planet"

Terry Martin, "the greatest shaper on the planet" according to surfboard manufacturing legend, Hobie Alter. Many, including me, would agree.

I had the privilage of collaborating with Terry in the summer of 2006 on making this special board at the request of Billabong president, Paul Nadae. It was the live-auction center piece for the S.I.M.A. Waterman's Ball charity auction.

I built and chamberd the blank and did the custom fin and inlayed logos for this 9-0, chambered, 7-stringer, single-fin gun. Terry put the magic into it. Moonlight Glassing did the rest.

Finished weight; approximately 19 lbs. Current owner: Paul Nadae

Peter st Pierre, owner of Moonlight Glassing outside Moonbase with the 9-0 gun.

Auction proceeds which totaled approximately $500,000 went to Ocean environment protectection charities.

ALOHA!!

RIP Tommy Lewis

Tommy Lewis and John Cherry - Cardiff Reef-1985

It sadens me to here about Tommy. i spent many a happy morning or afternoon surfing Cardiff Reef with Tommy in the 60's, 70's and 80's. I learned a fair amount about shaping and building boards from Tommy too. Tommy cranked out a lot of great boards from his Northshore-ish shaping hut out in Olivenhain, the same place he built his glass-over wood skiffs that he made his living fishing from.

I was absolutely jazzed when I got to buy his purple lobster skiff and beach-launch trailer from him in 1986. I think he charged me about twice what it was worth. Tommy was also a wheeler-dealer. But I didn't care.

I remember standing on the beach in the late 70's, watching Tommy standing in the back of his 15' skiff (also purple)with his hand on the outboard tiller. He was racing north and south, in and out, over and through the whitewater, looking for a break in the 10'-12' mostly closeout surf, just south of Georges. It was absolutely crazy. It took him about 15 minutes.....but he made it. Tommy Lewis was the BOMB! I'll miss him.

John Cherry