Boards For Sale

 I am paring down my 30+ personal board inventory. I will be offering for sale some of my personal boards. I will also be offering a few new boards on occasion that I have built for sale through this blog. These boards will also appear on SWAYLOCKS's list. Ph: (760) 966-1721      Oceanside, Ca.

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This early-era short board, shaped by Roland, is a classic from the period when the transition into short boards really started to work. This board has an "S" deck, exaggerated nose rocker, with a rolled bottom through the nose, blending into a flat bottom and rocker, with down rails in the aft 2/3. It has a forward-placed waveset box with a 9" flex fin. Both are in superb condition. No cracks or wear.

It is single-volan glassed with a volan deck patch over the back 2/3. It has zero heel dents. the pinline work is in resin. it has one minor ding on the nose tip, with slight browning extending out to about the size of a quarter. The ding is completely repaired with cloth and polished surface coat. Width; 21-3/4"   $675

for additional photos;      http://woodenshipsbyjcherry.blogspot.com/ go to "boards for sale"
cash or cashiers check. PayPal; add 4% to agreed upon price.
contact: 760-966-1721 or jcwoodcraft@cox.net

This 9'7" Wardy, #4585 was made in '64 or '65. The opaque blue panels and black competition stripe are the original color application on this board. It has a green, glass-on, fiberglass D fin. The fin has two minor blemishes, inside the glass, on the trailing edge. Minor color-matching repairs were professionally done on a few places along the rails by John Cherry. I have lots of photos of the board pre-conservation and in its present condition. Pre-conservation photos show crisp white foam beneath the areas where the original opaque pigment was chipped or sand-dragged off.

If you are looking for a pristine, original example of a premier-name, mid-60's longboard to ride or wall hang.....this is it! Local Pick-up only.  Oceanside, Ca. will dirve 1/2 way to meet from adjoining counties or LA. Cash or cashier's check. Paypal; add4% to negotiated price.
View more photos: http://woodenshipsbyjcherry.blogspot.com under "Boards for sale"
Contact: 760-966-1721 jcwoodcraft@cox.net          $975

MORE TO COME!

7'2" Simm-21 ~ 6'5" Simm-Fish

7'2" Simm for Bobby Donnelly, 6'5" Simm-fish for Daniel Stupar

Glassing: Michael Miller Surfboards , San Diego http://www.mmillersurfboards.com/

"Bobby D"

"Purple Haze" This board is actually a beautiful ultra-violet blue, unlike ANY of these photos. To my great dismay, I descovered that ultra-violet is impossible to photograph (without the proper know-how).
Fin-sets on both boards: Quilted maple over Central American Parota

Wood Source: Tropical Exotic Hardwoods of Latin America, Carlsbad, Ca. (Google it)
Abalone-backed logo for Daniel Stupar's fish.

A Summer Glider

This one's for ME. As I approach f*%#n 60 years old this year, I decided I would do for myself something built for comfort....and speed. Dimensions: 11' x 23-7/8" x 3-3/8".

US Blanks, 11-3D, blue-weight blank. Low-rocker, round-pin, Quad Fin Set-up. I shaped a very subtle single-into-double concave bottom on this one. Michael Miller is doing 8oz volan over 6 oz E-cloth all the way around, with an 8 oz deck patch and tail patch. No color, just old-school pure and simple. She'll be ready in plenty of time for summer.

Yearwood Surfboards Logo Fin

Dave Yearwood called me a couple months ago and asked if I would do one of my framed fins with his logo incorporated in it. I told Dave to think about what kind of template he wanted me to do. Dave decided on the Single-foil flex keel template from his 2008 "Dream Board", a special personal board for Dave that he designed and shaped with the collaboration of Skip Frye, Dave "Rasta" Rastovich, Greg Eavy, his wife Cathy and me. Dave and I designed a set of flex keels for the board. I built a set for Dave and a set for Rasta. (See; Dream Board, Nov 2008 post).

Dave picked the template and left the art approach up to me. It is en route via UPS as I am writing this. I hope he doesn't check my blog before he gets it..........and I hope he likes it!

Aloha Dave, JC

Reverse "D" Box Fin Completed

This one is for ME. I built this one especially for my 9'6" Donald Takayama Model T.

Nothing against the pivot fins that usually go here, but this is the one that works for me in all of my single-fin longboards. It is not just nostalgic and cool. The depth and area of this template provides superb control on the nose. The soft radius of the trailing edge allows for smooth and effortless turning ability. Woods: Purpleheart, Philippine mahogany, Peruvian walnut and maple checkers.

Glass-Ons for Phil Edwards

2 of 5 glass-on single fins for Phil Edwards. Phil was enticed to come out of shaping retirement to do a very limited series of solid redwood longboards. I was absolutely honored to be invited to do the fins for this limited series. These two are laminated, beads ground to shape, ready to glass on. They are a tad rough-looking at this stage, but will be pure in form (Phil's Template), clean and beautiful when they are finished. Woods: Old growth redwood, reclaimed from a defunct , Northern California winery, Lace sycamore (diamond) and maple pinlines.

I also had the pleasure of presenting Phil with a special fin I made a few years ago, inspired by a Grannis Photo, which exalts a legend, a legendary label and a popular board model of the early 60's. Phil will always remain as one of my most admired and personally influential figures in surfing history.

7'-2" simm-21 for Bobby "Diamond" Donnelly

I love my Clark Hatachi and my Skil 100, but my favorite shaping tool.....especially for clean work on multiple strigers........my Grandad's razor sharp smoothing plane. Foiling out the tail in this one.

Task-specific, hand-made tools are up there too. I use an adjustable-arc sanding block for clean and symetrical concaves.

This one will get an Ice-blue full tint by Michael Miller.

Fin set: quilted maple over parota. Cheater-coated, ready to laminate in this photo.

Aloha Bobby D