Fins for Mini Simmons Style Board

A couple ofriends shaped themselves a couple of boards and asked me to make some fins. We had pizza for dinner.

Ritu's fish

Here is the finished board from the airbrush post. 5'9'' 21'' 2 5/8'' Ritu usually rides short single fins. He wanted a board that could get more speed in smaller mushy surf. after seeing the airbrush post he purchased a matching jump suit. Note, matching Om sign and pinline.

Wood Surfboard Fins

A couple of sets for some fish. Fish fins are the easiest to make, mainly because their is only two. Bead assist by George.

Alaia Momento

A customer asked to make an alaia for their wedding. They asked the guests to sign the board while at the wedding. After the wedding, I finished coating the board with oil. They were very please with the outcome

Sam's the Man

We are lucky to have Sam Cody doing the airbrushing. He has been spraying boards a long time, and puts a lot of care into the art work. Get a board, get a spray, and you won't be disappointed.

Gabeminizilla 6'2"

This is the second edition of a 24'' wide shortboard for Gabe. (see 12/5/10 for the post of the first board) http://wegenersfinlessfrontier.blogspot.com/2010/12/gabes-new-shortboard.html We pulled the nose and tail in a pinch. Also honed down the rails a little. Gabe is not petite, but wants to shred on something other than a keel fish, so we kept the width, put a middle fin in, and shortboard rails.

Tim's new 5'8'' ?

Wood rails and a moon tail. Part fish, part mini simmons. Twinzer or quad? We will see.

Twin Keel Wood Fish

5'10'' paulownia, sequoia hollow core.

This is the deck.

This is the bottom.

I See Colors

Joel's 6'4'' Twinzer. He wanted some green on the deck.

Petrified Fish

My brother, Curt, is carving these incredible fish. He has been known to catch them, but now is spending time making some.

X Games Medal, Joe Hondnicki

http://espn.go.com/action/xgames/story/_/id/7177791/winter-x-games-aspen-2012-medal-design-first-round-finalists#steez?POLL626=800000000000000000000000

My friend Joe has made it to the final Three in the X Games medal design contest. (see 11/7/11 post) Please go to the above link and vote a couple of times. He is a fellow surfer and really good artist. To see more of his work go to www.sharingthestoke.com.

Rick's Yellow Quiver

6'7'' double wing pin thruster for the juicy days, and th 9'8 two plus one when it isn't so juicy. Both these are remakes of boards he has had a couple of years.

Sandbar Session

This is a video of some friends and I surfing a sandbar in 2009. This was a small day in February. The constant larger surf had carved out good banks up and down the beach. Hopefully they will come around this spring. The wood longboard is a 9'8'' hollow airplane wing type construction and weighs 32 pounds. A little heavy on land but in the water is easy to move around. Wood boards have great momentum. In small tubes where the lip breaks on your back, the board pushes right through out onto the shoulder with little interruption. The guys are riding single fin longboards 9'0 and 9'6.'' Jason Buck, orange board, is riding a 9'0" 2 plus one and JoJo is riding a 6'2'' Wegg. 

7'6'' Eco Ambassador

Rosa's new 7'6''. bio resin recycled core. The two of them are in Mexico at the moment during a nice south swell.

Handplanes

The next batch of Surf Craft Cooperative planes.

On The Racks

6'8'' quad for Jason.

Gabe's new 6'2'' by 23.''

Surfer Vote

http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2011/1101/as_snb_xmedal_203.jpg

I met Joe Hodnicki when I was in Maine in September. Their I was introduced to his art work. A lot of it is surf related and really good. Joe is also a super cool as well as a alaia and handplane enthusiast.

At the moment he is in the top 16 for designing this years Xgames medals. It would be great if he got the surf community vote. Please see the above link and vote for Joe.

For more info and artwork see his blog at http://www.sharingthestoke.com/

Jeff's California 8'0'' Mini Gun

Mini Gills at Mollusk, Venice

Here is some pictures of the latest Bluegills. These are of the Mini Gills, a Bluegill with a modern mini simmons template. This board is shaped with Green Foam, recycled polyester foam. It has some sequoia wood strips in the rails. It is 6' long.

This one is 6'4'' and custom made for Peter.

Happy Halloween

Have a Happy Halloween from Hulk Hogan, Fantastic Mrs. Fox, Ms. Kitty.

The Hulkster, Blue Man Crew, Wall Street representatives, and even nerds all had a good time this Halloween at the Wegener's house. Thanks to Sean Criss, Matt Calvani, and all who came and did it up. Super huge assist goes to Manny Caro for spinning records and keeping the dance floor full all night.

Wood board, sup's and custom blanks

Hollow wood boards, alaias, custom big guy short board, sup's, custom belly board blanks, bluegills, it's all going on in the shaping room.

Ted's Pelican Models

Ted puts pelicans on all his boards. He has a pretty nice flock now, from this 6'0'' and 6'2'' up to a 9'6''.