Chris Young's "D" template fin will have a 1/2" bead and be laid up for a center box. 
"D" template. This fin will be a glass-on with a 5/8" glass bead. It is for a future balsa board.
This fin will be a framed art piece for my friend and guitar teacher, Jerry McCann.
Tail
Logo
this incredible deck was done for me by my good friend, Ric Allison of Maker.
Sacred Craft exhibition was even better than last year! The atmosphere in general was much more upbeat. The cloud of financial doom and gloom seems to be fading.........Thank God!
Artist Ric Allison of Maker, with whom Terry Martin and I collaborated on the 2 art boards in this post, designed and produced new logos for me...........done in exotic woods inlay.
L-R, Terry Martin, Ric Allison, John Cherry. 9-0 chambered balsa Simmons, 9-6 Balsa longboard with exotic wood marquetry. Ready to be glassed.
Art boards : 30-35 lb. weight range. TOTALLY RIDEABLE!
Finz.
Wooden Jellies.
Francesco "Grasshopper" Di Tommaso from Bari Italy, Surfing buddy, brother from another mother, riding his favorite california board, a 9-2, 2+1, Cherry surfboards performance longboard at Egor's. August '09.
I FINALLY scored a load of superb balsa this summer from Tropical Exotic Hardwoods of Latin America, located in Carlsbad. The sticks with the gold-painted ends are feather light, the likes of which I thought I would never see again. The rest is just..........more superb, light wood.
I shaped my 1st alaia. It is out of Parota (central Mexico). The wood is beautiful, very light and has very nice rigid-flex properties. 
Frank Cherry's 7-0
Keith Campbell's (Georgia) 6-6
Francesco and I shaped a reproduction of my 1962 Hobie shop model for Francesco.
This one was for Bobby "Diamond" Donnelly. The "anit-sweeper" machine.
Why not?? 
For my good friend and fellow fin craftsman, Danny Partch, Big Island, HI.
For Kevin Ho, Oahu, HI. 8.75 Tyler Surfboards "Zeke" template (with permission).
UWL Surfboards in France is making a lot of these boards. This is the 4th batch of exotic wood keels for my friend, Renaud Cardinal of UWL.
For my surf finatic, good friend, Holly Yang. Flame maple over cedar over Peruvian walnut.
FD at Hobie, giving Terry Martin some advice on the finer points of shaping.....Italian style.
This 10'10" glider was shaped out of an 11'3" D, U.S. Blanks with natural rocker.
Francesco DiTommaso, from Bari Italy is a dear friend (and one of my best clients).
The shape translates well from 8'0" on down. Here is an 8-0, a 7-2 and a 6-3. Owners are Frank Cherry from I.B., Warren Canada form Jacksonville and Morgan Smith, Windansea local. I have gotten back glowing reports from Frank and Morgan. I think Warren is still waiting for surf (it is Florida). These boards are superb in everything from minimal size and poor conditions to overhead, lined-up point breaks. They catch waves extremely well. They have superb hull speed, carrying the speed through the flats and long cut-backs. And they are delightfully maneuverable. All boards are 100% hand-shaped.
Morgans board; Fins are koa, lace sycamore and maple. the twins are single-foil. The trailer fin is a small, double-foil, Simmons-template. It adds great stability and tail drive.
Diamond tail
Subtle single-into-double concave bottom.
Transitional rail line; hard up-rail at the nose to hard down-rail through the tail.
The subtle step deck is reminiscent of the original Simmons boards. it fits well into the wave face and lightens up the nose.
The Winged Simm-21 logo, each done by hand, signifies each model.
Warren chose a shell inlay to back the standard Cherry Surfboards logo.
