Finless Foray

Left my camera at work this evening, so I thought I'd post some pictures of a finless board I built in 2006. It was designed by a friend of mine, Dale Solomonson in the mid 80's. He never built it, but posted a drawing of it on the online shaping forum Swaylocks. I took it upon myself to constructed it and wrote all about it here http://www2.swaylocks.com/node/1020900 in 2006. One of the coolest boards I ever made. :)  -Carl

Crows, Kai and Shortie

Friends are always sending us pictures of 2 crows. So rad, we love it.

Great picture of Kaizer surfing Pleasure Point

 Here's a little shorty that just finished up for Ryan, I know we don't post a lot of pics of conventional shortboards, but we do 'em. :) <(") Carl

Just a quicky

I came across this video of Edward Sharp @ Aloha Tower and got all nostalgic tonight. Looking forward to getting back to Hawaii, I always start playing this song... heck the whole album gets put on repeat as I start counting down the days to departure. Heres a better version of the song for those of you who've never heard it...

<(")Carl

Headcolds, handles and hang tens

Man I finally caught the headcold that's been going around lately. They say the average adult gets 2-3 a year, so I guess it was gunna happen sooner or later. I mentioned that it was slowing me down to Welzie today... he told me to take a tablespoon of cement to "harden up." Couldn't help but laugh at that one. Stayed out of the shaping room today, something about all that dust floating around is really unappealing when your sick. Gotta get well fast, heading over to Hawaii on monday. I did fabricate a new handle for my rebuild on my soon-to-be hawaii planer. I love metal fabrication, it comes in a close second to working on surfboards in my book. :) 

A little grinder action... not smart to do one handed while taking pictures...

 Here's all the pieces cut, bent, ground, and ready to be welded.

 Weldy weldy

 A little flat black paint makes everything rad

 Vintage Clark foam planer... I wonder if it's worth anything on ebay...

 I randomly stumbled across one of Waylon's Thick foiled fins while tinkering around in the garage... probably an inch thick. I think I was supposed to fix this thing for him or something...

 Sweet template! Reminds me of an Orca.

 Planer's starting to take shape. Maybe I should paint the body on this one...

Speaking  of Waylon, here's a great picture of his 220lb frame defying all odds at Malibu. Legend

 Here's one of Welzie. Liability <(") Carl

Stripy Stripy

A new stock fish all done yesterday. I like the red black and white.

We got two boxes all ready to go. The big one to Australia and the little one over to maui. Luckily I packed a lot of boards working for Pearson Arrow as a grom. Got it wired.

as single as a single fin screen. Going to be printing a bunch of new shirts in the next few weeks as we got about 8 new screens made. So stoked.

A piece of wood waiting to get some fiberglass and resin on it as I start to lam the last board till Carl gets back.

Daniel Jones's little Minnisimms/quad/ something rad. This board is a 4 10. Tiny.

I was into making creatures for a while. Here is some sort of resin eating animal that found its way into the glass room.

 Something about me and two headed creatures. Another little buddy I made a while ago that now watches over the fin jigs.

I got this beer sign at the thrift store. After buying it and hanging it in the lam room I realized Cutter is Coors' non alcholic beer. oops. Still looks good though.

Running down a dream

 I should have posted a pic of this board when I was rambling about asyms. I've had it sitting on the wall for a while, just waiting for the right day... asymmetrical bliss

Package came in the mail yesterday. What could it contain? It turns out our buddy Everett is so good at packing boards that he managed to cut the shipping cost in half. Two Crows Bisect

He wants a copy of his magic board. Smart man, he sent his broken board up via UPS to be in the shaping room when the planer is on.

Last of Arrows. Selling one of my last boards branded with Arrow Logos. Now that I've moved on it's a bit outdated. If anyone wants it hit us up via email... you'll have to beat the craigslisters though. :) You can only get these babies through Two Crows now. Don't even think of hitting up Arrow ;)

I'm prepping one of my old workhorses for Hawaii. My most faithful planer I've owned, over 2K boards alone on this little piece of green plastic. Stripping down these planers is second nature. Usually they break at the worst times... when you're rushed, the waves are good and you're tired. A brush goes out, the cord shorts, switch dies... you name it. In an attempt to prevent this, I like to keep mine in tip-top shape, and this one was due for a tear down. I'll post some pictures as it comes back together. <(") 

The Satchel Gogurt interview

Ok so this is kinda random post but it is pretty classic. A friend mine from years ago made me a cd of music he was working on. He was super stoked on it, which made me put it to the CD player on a late night drive home from town. The CD was mostly of him rapping to beats he made, which were good but track 6 really hit the spot. Matt, the one who made the CD did a mock interview of a pro surfer from Australia, kinda mocking the whole pro surfer thing. Its a pretty Hilarious piece of work if you have the time. Matt was an amazing artist and one who always followed his passions. He ended his life soon after he gave me this CD and will always remembered. Long live the Hive!
-n
all I had was an audio track and the only way I could post it was with a video, so let it play while you browse the interwifiweb

Baja

      2Crows Ambassador Cathy Mayerhofer reported in from her most recent rip down to Scorpion Bay today. She makes the trip solo down to Mex several times a year, pretty fearless if you ask this Crow. She's cut from a different mould no question about it. I always look forward to her tales of the feral life.

 Sketchy whale painting, wouldn't want to mess with this bad acid trip...

 I lived with this dog for a year. Don't let her cute looks fool you, she is a feral Mex local. Cathy originally found her during a trip to Scorpion. She will kill attempt to kill all the defenseless small animals in your yard, jump up on you, eat the food off your plate and sleep on your bed.

Here's a picture of a Coyote that decided to check out the party.  Sketchy

 Yes there were waves

Colin James Jones III ...The most talented longboarder to walk the nose in Pleasure point in years. It's rare that you see a picture of his face... More pictures of the perfection. It's almost torture, I can't wait to join Welzie in Hawaii next week. -C

Too Much Fun...

Making surfboards isn't easy, constant strain on the body, toxic chemicals and most people who make boards are weirdos. But you know what, it can be pretty fun. The crew we got here at the Third Stone Factory is pretty awesome. Owl Chapmin, Duncan Cambell, Third Stone Steve, Cody of Royal HI, Ikila Aipa (Ben Aipa's son), Reno Avallera, Gordon Quigg (Joe Quigg's son) has been hanging out. A pretty star studded cast if you ask me. It can get pretty entertaining as well, especially after dark and the beers start flowing. Last night Cody busted out some walkie talkies to connect the upstairs to the downstairs. After plenty of shit talking over the airways we decided to use them for emerginceis only.... to get more beer. Needless to say work came to a halt, and the hide and go seek games almost begun. A bunch of big kids making surfboards. Having Fun. -n

The Mural is still growing...

Crows Light.... Soon to be a tee shirt

I got some frames from the thrift store and started to get some doodling done on them. As single as a single fin.

I have been body surfing a bunch lately with my good friend John. We are always cracking jokes while getting pitted. This came out after a lost fin and ended up a single fin session. This doodle came out latter that day.

Two more screens coming out. Carl gets back to Hawaii in a week. It always gets me motivated to have some shit done when he gets here so he doesn't think I spend all my time playing hide and seek and drinking beers.

Cam over on Maui new board. Came out sick... I want one. Its alot like the CI neck beard Model, but way cooler cause it's not made in China :)

Mini Stonehenge, Asymmetrical Minis, Other stuff...

Cool stuff coming out of the Santa Cruz shop this week. First of all a quick thanks to Tim and Andy for stopping by with some much needed refreshments after a long day the other evening!

Stopping in on my buddy Brian I learned about focusing energy via a mini stonehenge he's got assembled in his living room. Getting weird, our type of guy. We discussed asymmetrical boards, finless boards and various other concepts that would expand anybodies mind.  

I got right to Brian's concepts in the shaping room.If you want your board quick come up with something in a mini stonehenge and your shaper will probably jump right to it.

I love asymmetrical designs, they make so much sense. Think about weighting your heels vs your toes. It's an asymmetrical feeling, why not make your board to match? Also consider the side of the board the wave is on verses the side it's not... coming off the bottom vs. coming off the top? Always different sides of the board, always gets my mind turning... great stuff.

A quick shot of our friend Debbie's board. Cool template, looks like so much fun. User friendly boards for friendly users. 

Then of course there's this pic that Gigi and Jeni sent in from Kauai... just in case I was boring you guys with all that board talk. <(") -C