Tri-Fins, double-foil x 3 for 10'-6" Al Merrick Gun

Woods: Redwood lace burl, sandwiched between quilted maple.

This incredible board is a colaboration by al Merrick and Larry fuller. I have done lots of fins and finsets for Larry's special boards. I was stoked to get to help with this one. It began as a solid redwood board by Al. Larry Supplied the wood, Old groth California heart redwood from a defunct winery in northern California. The wood was once part of a room-sized cask that aged california red wine. Larry has his own secret (really) sources for incredible woods. Larry took the shaped board apart at Jimmy Phillips shop and chambered it, bringing the pre-glass weight from around 110 lbs.....to about 28lbs. In this photo, I had just finished cheater-coating the board with a 50/50 laminating resin and styrene mix, an absolutely necessary step to prevent the wood from "gassing" as well as absorbing too much resin when glassed. The same treatment was required for the redwood fins.

11-0 Glider for Chris Tomlin

Pick-up Day. My young shaping apprentice, C.T. could have shaped this one himself, but he wanted one from me. The outer-space shine is from reflective tape on his USMC sweat suit. This American Hero, an E.O.D. specialist, has 4 tours in Iraq. He deserves to shine!

Glassing: by Michael Miller Surfboards www.mmillersurfboards.com

dbl 8oz volan both sides + 8oz volan deck patch.

Dimensions
Fin: 10" flex, 12" up. Finnish ply with sapele veneer.

Aloha C.T. JC

Tyler's # 2. Ready for the Glasser.

Blank layout: I glued up a 2" center T-band of agave and 1/8" cedar. The 3/16" outboard

T-bands I glued up with 3/32" cedar / balsa / cedar .

Woods: Fin, Tail block and Nose block are of old-growth, curly redwood, Peruvian walnut, American walnut and flame maple.

Your basic point-break, single-fin long board.

Dimensions: 9'0" ~ n 16" ~ w 22-1/2" ~ t 14-1 /4" ~ th 3"

Custom #2 for Tyler Olson

Tyler's #1. I built and shaped this board for Tyler in January, '09. Tyler ordered it to celebrate the birth of his #1 son and to eventually pass on to him. (Pretty Freakin' cool!). This 9'4" has an agave and redwood T-band and 1/4" outboard redwood stringers .

We did a custom fin, nose block and tail block for it.

Tyler's custom #2. Tyler just ordered a similar board to celebrate son #2. This 9'0" I just glued up for him has a 2" agave and 1/8" cedar T-band and narrow t-bands 6-3/4" out from the T-band. This one will be very similar, but I will change up the fin and tail block designs.

#2: She's templated and ready to shape T.O. as soon as I build the fin, none block and tail block.

I'll keep you posted!

Aloha, JC

Holly's Hand-plane~Ready to Rock

Just finished this one up last night for one of my favorite surf chicks.

She's ready when you are Holly.

Aloha, JC

Lady"s Hand Gun~fits in your purse

OK.....Fits in your beach-bag. This one is for Holly Yang. Holly bought one for her boyfriend, Joe for his birthday a few months ago. After riding his she decided she needed one for herself.

In these photos, it is cheater-coated only (sealed with laminating resin / styrene mix).

Woods: curly redwood, two tones of balsa, cedar-pinline outboard stringers, Peruvian walnut pinlines next to the redwood and agave (the innermost point on the tail).

Aloha Holly, JC

Do You Carry a Hand-Gun in Your Car?

You never know when one might come in handy. These three hand-guns or hand-planes are for Bobby "Big D" Donnelly.

They have a rolled, up-rail nose, blending into a smooth rail-to-rail concave and a harder, down-rail tail.

Woods: Light and dark balsa, redwood and Peruvian walnut.

Finish: multiple layers of laminating, hot-coat and gloss resins.

Dimensions: 17-1/2" x 8" x 1" approximately.