Custom 6ft Redwood/Kevlar Thruster

The newest custom to leave the shop is this little 6′ thruster. It is built using all recycled redwood for the decks, and cork rails covered with Kevlar cloth. The customer was ordering his board while the Kevlar Slider was in the process of being built. He loved the kevlar look, and the added strength was another selling point. So… he asked for kevlar rails. The combination of high-tech materials such as kevlar (high impact and abrasion resistance, low weight), and the beauty and strength of wood makes these boards pretty special. I also added Future Fin boxes since the owner will be travelling with it. Also, the nail holes in the redwood were filled with copper tack heads.The top deck was intentionally left “rough”, without hot coats, in order to shed some weight and make waxing a breeze. The board has a single concave running the entire length, measures 6′ x 18 7/8″ x 2 3/8″ and weighs in at 12 lbs. So far he has surfed it a few times, and says it hauls a$$ and holds a rail like no other. Stoked!

Shaped by Martijn.

Custom 8’2 Redwood Single Fin

This is a custom 8’2″ “mini malibu” cruiser board. The top deck is reclaimed redwood with ponderosa pine stringers and a purple heart walnut center stringer with poplar circles. The bottom deck is wavy redwood with black walnut stringers, outlined by ponderosa pine as well. The bottom features a hand-painted tribal Honu, a hawaiian-style turtle, near the nose.  The single fin is a redwood and pine rising sun, with manzanita burl as the sun itself. The glow of the redwood on this board is amazing, once the light hits it the depth of the colors really comes out.  I personally delivered this board to the customers in Phoenix, AZ, where it will spend some time on the wall before it comes back to the Pacific to be surfed by the owners. A truly beautiful board!

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We’ve been busy…

Even though we haven’t been posting as much, we have in fact been pretty busy building custom boards, and hanging others on walls. The boards include a custom 8’4″ big wave gun, an 8’2″ “sunset” tanker, a 7′ redwood pintail which is hanging in a corporate building.

Below is the 8’4″ gun, built out of madrone, spalted red oak, wavy redwood, and vertical grain redwood. The madrone and red oak came from the customers’ father-in-laws personal stash of wood, milled on their property in Bonny Doon. The redwood was reclaimed, and the wavy redwood left over from a previous board. The nose has a small abalone inlay, the knots are filled with small pieces of Jade from Big Sur, and it was all glassed in bio resin. The board also has future fin boxes, in a quad configuration. The board weighs in at just over 20 lbs, and was built to take a lot of abuse.

This is a custom 8’2″ Slim Tanker in the sunset motif. The bottom of the board is doug fir with reclaimed redwood, pine, and an unknown species of burl for the sun. The “ocean” under the sunset as well as the fin are sapele. The top deck is completely different: a purple heart walnut stringer with poplar circles, thin pine stringers, and reclaimed redwood stringers from an old arbor. The tail is a piece of  redwood burl with abalone inlays. This board looks phenomenal!

This is the 7′ pintail we hung on the wall at Plantronics, a large corporation in Santa Cruz. Their new building is amazing, energy efficient, solar powered, and directed at the comfort of the employees. Their walls all have really unique art hung up, and our board is displayed next to a large print of a surfer dropping into a bomb at Steamer Lane. The picture was taken by a friend of ours (unbeknownst to us!!!), pixelated, mounted on redwood fence boards, and hung on the wall. Up close the picture just looks like huge squares, but as you back down the hallway it comes to life. We are very honored to be displayed next to it.

More pictures of all of the boards. Gun and Tanker built by Martijn, Pintail by Tyler.

Custom 8-2 Slim Tanker, finished and hung

This is a custom 8’2″ Slim Tanker for a local business here in Santa Cruz. The board was built from reclaimed redwood from a deck in Boulder Creek, black walnut from a deceased woodworker, and ponderosa pine from a tree that came down during the Bonny Doon fire of 2008. The rails are cork as usual, with a redwood burl tail block with abalone stripes. The board is hanging on some custom walnut wall mounts, easy to remove and go surf before the boss comes in, haha.

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Custom 9-0 Noserider – Sunset/Moonrise

This is my latest board finished, and it’s all for ME!!! I’ve been having fun with the sunset boards, enough to tackle double the work for my own board. I decided to do a setting sun over a rising, waxing moon. The sun/sky are yellow cedar and reclaimed redwood, with the sun made of manzanita burl. The center stripe is some curly redwood from a local friend of ours, with black walnut stringers on either side. The walnut was also salvaged, from a dumpster. The moon sky is reclaimed redwood including nail holes, and reclaimed pine; the nail holes are filled with copper tack heads, and the moon is a burl from an unidentified beach find. The dark side of the moon was burnt, it is a solid circle. The tail block was a redwood branch that came out of a bonfire at the beach. The top deck is curly redwood with black walnut and yellow cedar, with a paua shell inlay at the tail block. The fin is reclaimed redwood with a burnt leading edge. On the nose, with the best view EVER, is my little rasta surfing buddy, who I hope will invoke a smile from even the crankiest surfers out there. The board was glassed in Entropy ONE resin, which is awesome to work with on wooden boards.

The shape is fairly close to a traditional noserider, having the wide point aft of center, low nose rocker, plenty of tail rocker, with a nice little kick in the last few inches. The nose has a deep concave, progressing to a flat bottom, and back into a deep concave through the tail. The rails in the last 24″ are chined upwards, giving the bottom contour almost a catamaran look. Really cool! The rails are sharp in the tail, progressing to rounded rails, beveled up in the nose. It measures just a nose over 9 feet, 22.5″ wide, 2.75″ thick. She weighs in at a cool 21.5lbs. Not bad for all those seams!

This board was meant to be surfed hard, I will keep  you updated as far as the performance and abilities of the board. Stoked!

Shaped by Martijn.