Archive for June, 2009
06/24/09- We matched up model Tiffany Selby, makeup artist Christina Schock, and the 4 logoless C2’s for a day long photo sesh. WoW. We got great results, we’re in the process of editing now.
We flew Jayd Lovely out from Arizona to get the specs on this 10′2″ V2.
These are outake’s from her 1st of two photo sessions. If I leave Mike and the Justin alone on the set for a minute I always find “Lurker shots” when it’s time to edit.
We teamed up Chrystle King with the 10′5 Agave C2 for some test shots.
The model and the board were a great match and we scheduled the shoot in mid-july. It will be the second of her two shots in the calendar.
Been working on these boards for a shoot with Tiffany Selby scheduled for next week. 4 Little balsa/foam C2’s ranging from 7′7″ – 9′1″ with Walker Foam and Jim Phillips glue-ups. 
I think this group of boards is pretty unique. I decided to go with no logos ’cause the lines looked clean without them and the boards will be well documented in the calendar.
I’m pretty excited because they’ve been in the works for a long time and my little black R&D C2 in the post below has been working so good.
I’d love jump on one of ’em with all the balsa and ride it but I’ll just invite myself to a surf session with one of the guys that wins one at auction instead.
Pupo will be glossing these today.
I’ve never had more fun making surfboards.
My friend Mike Black has been after me to shape him a pig for some time. So I start thinking about the old pig boards I rode thru the years …I think I need to explain about all these old boards I’ve ridden. I was eleven years old and only had one year of surfing under my belt in ‘67 when the era ended, that leaves little time to have ridden all these logs during their heyday.
Me Tanis Zana Balboa Island 1970
Now back to this Mike Black pig, I decided to go stringerless so I’d have a clean slate for some Eames inspired color panels.
Also I’ve got a glassing plan so it turns out nice and solid. I was looking forward to digging into some pure unobstructed foam ’cause the majority of the boards I’ve shaped recently have crazy wood.
Most of the calendar boards are being made from my stock of Walker Blanks. I raided Walker on their last day and got a load of stringerless blanks. I’ve been having Jim Phillips do some of his special glue ups on them. I only have one big(10′2) stringerless left so I grabbed a 10′3 IceNine with Walker’s revived “Old Man” formula. This is the first IceNine for me because the walker formula they were offering originally was too light for my needs. I closed myself in my room with with the blank and some templates. Dug into the foam with the skil walking full speed at full depth, foam flying and not one chatter or tear. The foam was stiff and the dust is fluffy. Loving this, can’t wait to dig back into it today after a morning surf.
Luckily Mike has plenty of boards to ride until after the calendars done and I can get to his, thanks for the inspiration Mike.
Gene
I was just going thru and editing the photos from Claudia’s first session and found this one buried in the test shots.
Hi everyone, thanks for checking in. This is a new website dedicated to the 2010 calendar project. Here’s whats happening with the surfboards.
2010 R&D#1 - 7'7"x 20"x 3 1/4"
Gene
