The lam side

The third stone factory is always exciting, something new always in the works. After  an epic body surfing session I headed back to the shop to polish out a couple boards. Sure enough Third Stone Steve arrived after smashing out 10 lam jobs up at Monstah Glassing. Our beer fridge was stocked and well, we decided to have a few. Meeting is what some corpos call it. After a couple dozen beers and a random puke from steve the stars are aligning. There is no place like home.
-n


a nice little blue egg for some lucky soul.

Johnnys board getting polished

Third Stone Steve. the man behind the curtin

Toot's Mini Simms

Inspiration/procrastination

Santa Coors & Happiness

Santa Coors delivered a couple cases of our favorite tonight. Not quite sure how to schedule these guys into the weekend, but I have ideas... Definitely one reason to be happy this evening.

Here's Tim, stoked about picking up his new 5'8" epoxy quad fish. He's happy

 And Ryan doing his best super stoked grom impression. He's extra happy! I'm bummed you can't see the super stealth swallow tail on his board. Dammit!

 Kevin's 7'1" pork chop... He's a pretty big dude and has been playing around with different board designs in the never ending quest for something smaller that still paddles good. Here's to hoping he's happy. ;) -Carl

FINS!

We just got our first batch of custom box fins in! They came out perfect. We did one half black and the other white. Freestyle and style free. There is the CA noseriders, Copy Cats, Yard Stick, Lady Log, egg and lowrider fins. Modern Classics. Soon to be available at our online store and Surf Garage.



Stocked up and ready to go. Fins for all!

The white side...

The Middle. you can see the white and black sides

The Black side. Clean. 50 50 Freestyle Stylefree.

We had these fins made right here in the sugar mill. You buy your produce from local farmers why not by your fins from local fin foilers. Made with the highest quality of Island Fin Design.

Resin Resin Resin

We got four more boards coming out of the shop here pretty soon, been sanding away in the rain and wind.
Shop is still getting a "extreme makeover" as steve cleans up the old room and the surf shop keeps moving forward. The racks are full in the glassing room as John's, Pam, Sarah and Malia's boards are all approaching the glossing stage. Spending the day in the sand room is no easy task. I learned how to sand from legendary Charlie Walker who likes to block sand everything out. This means you get a piece of 40 grt and a piece of wood and use good old fashion elbow grease to get the boards flat. Its a lot of work, but there is something to be said about the energy put into a board and the life the board takes..... whoa, that sounds a bit hiipyish. I think I just like to get the boards flat.



The Broken up floors from the previous glassing room. You think we do a bit of color work?

I am getting my old art studio back in the mill, can't wait to start doing some other art out side the fumes.

The post are because the roof leaks. A little freestyle leak protection.

John Smith's board with a little Greg Noll infulence. I remember polishing Greg Noll's redwood boards when I was 17. He had them glassed at the Arrow factory and I was the polisher at the time. His son Jed was working there then as a shaper as well. I feel so lucky to have worked with those guys on boards.

Malia's new little fish. I love the white on black. All jail house style.

My retired resin shoes, I figured I would screw them to the wall.... why not right?

Here is a pic of John Smith, the guy getting the greg noll themed board. Here he is in the latest Surfers Journal getting shacked at China Walls.

-nick

Iphoneness

The Crows are spreading. I found some pics last night of some I phone photos people have sent us over the last few months. Hey If you got some cool Two Crowzy photos, send um this way and we will put them up.

Sam tagging up a sign

Tom and Jojo snowboarding out in Taho

steve, the owner of the factory, pozing next to the verbal dhiarhea painting.

welzie getting busted not knowing what he is doing. pic by Super C

freestyle... pic by Super C

resin covered skate deck

Art show pic

The Crows are spreading. I found some pics last night of some I phone photos people have sent us over the last few months. Hey If you got some cool Two Crowzy photos, send um this way and we will put them up.

USO

Ever get sick of vanilla ice cream? I love vanilla. You love vanilla. Everybody loves vanilla. It's easy to like. No commitment, simple and goes with pretty much everything. It  never goes out of style and  never gets dissed. Well... it happens that's also an "industry"" term for clear shortboards. Maybe we just made it up... but either way, you get the point. 

Once and a while though, you stumble into 7-11 while coming down off a night of who-knows-what, you dig deep back in the refrigerator and come up with something that you've never tried. A mish-mash of flavors that who knows came up with. Ben and Jerry? Who are those guys anyway? But somewhere in your ransacked mind you say- F**K it and decide to give it a try. Well, here you have exactly that- straight from his living room based personal Stonehenge- our friend Brian's Unidentified Surfing Object. Something different. Something theoretically delicious, but at the same time potentially terrible. This is the risk you take when you make the commitment. But for a true freestyler, it's all the same. Fail or win- taking the chance is where the success lays.

 Man I can't wait to get this baby finished. Wait till you see where the fins go! :) -Carl

Bonzer Finished

I finally finished up the Bonzer, sometimes the personal boards get done quick, sometimes not. Weve been working on this thing for a while and they sure are a lot of work. The deep concaves to shape, then glass.  Getting the fins right, then at the right angle. Luckily after its all said and done, Duncan Cambell of the Bonzer brothers gave it a thumbs up. Coming from the creator of the Bonzer it's a good compliment. After Carl and I were talking concaves we decided the best way to feel what a concave does is to ride a Bonzer. So we made one. Can't wait to give it a go. Here is some pics...-n

Man the waves have been so good in Santa Cruz the past few days. Don't tell anyone! :) Finally got around to designing a new middle fin for those 2+1 setups. Sure gets messy quick, but it's always fun digging through the archives and stirring memories. Every fin template has a story. 

 Collins board got polished today. Simple green tint, looks good.

 Here's a little rocket that I shaped for Brian today. 5'6" by 21 1/4.

 Super bowl was yesterday. I turned up at my brothers party to watch it, but I really felt that this sticker summed it all up for me! -Carl

Back in Black

Its been a busy week at the shop, Carl left a bunch of shaped boards behind. A lot of cool boards getting glassed. Barry picked up his board the other day, a black beauty with a little freestyle pink and green. Black is probably the hardest color to polish out as is shows all the scratches, luckily I got a few tricks, the board came out great. 2+1 set up with black boxes...stealthy

-n

The new indoor hang out area. Check the art on the wall by Drew Toonz, pretty killer. It's classic when someone is sitting there. I think were going to nail a tall boy in his hand :)

Johns board. The white is going to get some big black stripes. He wanted a Greg Noll theme and green which I thought was a pretty sick idea.

A close up of some art on the wall, or is that a board?

Daniel Jone's little Mini Sim Quad thingy. It's a 4 '10

Carving

 While Welzie carves up the picnic table, we've been finishing up a couple of sweet rides up for friends.
But here we have a picture of Cathy Mayerhofer, one of our shredding women rippers...

 And here's her housemate Debbie's little full planshape fish-egg-shortboard-mosquito thingy. Almost done!

And Collins board, almost done. Tomorrow we should see the crows on it and a nice gloss and polish to make that green pop! -Carl