Low-cost shaping racks!

        

From wrecked bed frame into low-cost shaping racks! from pedro vieira on Vimeo.

Driftwood Collective posed itself a challenge:

To build a shaping rack without spending a penny... We failed! We had to expend 7 euros and 80 cents on screws. In the process we've destroyed one unused bed frame, two faulty wooden trestles and one camping mat.

It was worth the effort... see for yourself!

Economic Depression - 0
Creativity - 1

in, The Driftwood Collective

Kustomland Photography Journal

"This book has a great deal of information about the early Kustom car craze that flooded California in the mid 1950s. It has some rare photographs of early cruise spots and detailed shots from the cars that set the benchmark. These cars were the catalyst in starting this trend among youth culture! I like this rare 56' Plymouth Kustom with a Chevy grill.

Kustomrama have all the details."

in, The Waxhead Diaries

Handplanes

"Made with sustainable wood and coated with plant based entropy bio resin, these are very environmentally sound planes that work really well. 

Cyrus Sutton and I design and make the planes under the Surfcraft Cooperative logo. They also have a adjustable strap made by Micheal Disculpio up in Santa Cruz. 

Patagonia in Cardiff, Mollusk in Venice, and Wetsand in Ventura are carrying them, or contact me (Jon Wegener) or Korduroy.tv to order a custom."

in, Wegener's Fineless Frontier

Mid 60's Bing Noseriders

Bing DN Noserider #6789

                                   Bing David Nuuhiwa Noseriding model

                                              1966 Surfer Magazine ad


This is Chris's Bing David Nuuhiwa Noserider Model #6399. 

Kimo Green "on the right" just put a light polish on this board to keep it original!

in, Classic Bing Surfboards

"Intuition" by Ryan Lovelace

Intuition from Ryan Lovelace on Vimeo.
Sit back and relax with this one on full screen...it'll enhance your mellow.

Trevor laying down some fluidity on the v.Bowls.  I've used a few bits of these waves in clips before but nothing beats a clean, full-wave shot.

Shot by Michael Kew somewhere around Santa Barbara and edited by Ryan Lovelace.  
Music: Intuition by Feist

The Avthentic Story

These are two minutes of rushes from the movie The Avthentic Story
which is supposed to be released sooner or later.

in, Surf Lab

2011 in review from Deus Bali

"When you look at the concept of one year strictly as a period of time passing, it seems pretty arbitrary. Our planet's complete orbit around the sun equals 365 day and nights, which leads us on a journey through 12 months and 52 weeks….or 52 weekends, whichever way you want to look at it.

Wherever in the world you are, once that clock strikes midnight on the 31st of December, we as the human race undertake a new embarkation into another arbitrary period of time. Yes, on paper and for general organizational purposes, 365 days is used to quantify 'one year'…but it's really what you accomplish, experience and change in that time that really means something isn't it?"


in, Deus x Machina

Open publication - Free publishing - More 2011

Scotty Stopnik for Captain Fin Co.

Scotty Stopnik from Madison Dyer on Vimeo.
Scotty Stopnik for Captain Fin Co.
Music
Artist: The Beatles
Song: Octopuses Garden

"Old Skool" Surfboards

How It's Made by Discovery Science Channel

Freedom To Foam by Cyrus Sutton

Freedom To Foam Opening from www.KORDUROY.tv on Vimeo.
The opening sequence of Cyrus' 2011 film "Freedom to Foam," features some of California's best loggers who shred and shape. Set to a mellow/modern soundtrack, this surf flick has never been released outside of Japan and is available along with a limited edition Korduroy T-Shirt and Sticker Pack for contributions over $50 to our Kickstarter campaign to fund our next year's shows.

Check out this and other cool prizes:http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/korduroytv/korduroytv-2012-shows

Featuring

Tyler Warren
Joel Tudor
Ryan Burch
Skip Frye
Alex Knost
Micah Wood
Tanner Prairie
Josh Hall
Mikey DeTemple
Dave Allee

in, Korduroy Tv

Mike Hynson, Co-Star of "The Endless Summer", Resurfaces With Tales of the Brotherhood

The Surfer Who Came In From the Cold
Whatever happened to The Endless Summer co-star Mike Hynson? A lot, much of it bad, starting when he got mixed up with the notorious Laguna Beach drug-smuggling ring known as the Brotherhood of Eternal Love.

See full article in, Boda Surf Family Blog

The Soap Bar

After the 'Tracking' trip just a few months ago, Tyler Warren did his thing, spent some time in the confines of the shaping bay and left us (Deus) with a trio of foam-craft before his departure. Three 5 foot "Bars of Soap" now sit in our showroom racks, adding a bit of color and smooth Mini Simmons lines to the array on offer.

in, Deus x Machina

Insane Wood Work

 Greg Wheeldon from Brisbane has been busy at it again. Lots of detail once again. Great to see the effort he puts into his boards.

" I finished a new 8’ Mal for myself, and pick it up from the glasser on Xmas Eve.  Once the sting goes from the cyclone swell, I will be christening the new board."

" The board is 8’ x 21 1/2 x 2 1/2, paulownia and western red cedar, with a woven bamboo feature panel in the nose and tail pads.  Glassed on fin with a checker pattern to match the deck detail."

 "Another one for the quiver.  Hope to see you out at Currumbin over the Xmas New Year break."

"My son is finishing a 6’ retro pintail with a rising sun radial pattern in the nose.  I’ll send you photos, when complete."

Greg Wheeldon.

in, Wooden Surfboards

Summery Loggery | A Patagonia Short by Nathan Oldfield

Summery Loggery: A Patagonia Short from Nathan Oldfield on Vimeo.
This is a short for my friends at Patagonia, featuring Johnny Gill & Sean Finnelley getting some crispy little summery peelers at their local.

I cut this piece to a song called ‘Heimat Sterne - A suite in 3 movements' by my mate Brendan Berlach. You can seek more of his joyous work at myspace.com/brendanberlach

Thanks for watching a www.nathanoldfield.com thing for www.patagonia.com.au

More at www.lookandsea.blogspot.com

Gene Cooper's Bing Collection

Gene Cooper's Bing collection

Need a stepdeck? 

Gene Cooper showing us how well his Bing Lightweight works.

in, Classic Bing Surfboards

Merry Christmas | Feliz Natal

Joe Bauguess shaper|inventor of the first Mini Simmons

Joe Bauguess Inventor of the very FIRST Mini Simmons had a few moments to tell us the history behind the shape and its natural progression into surfboard design. To learn more go to http://joebsurfshapes.com Filmed by Matthew Roybal

DRAIN - A Dogbowl Short by Jake Janisse

DRAIN - A DOGBOWL SHORT directed by JAKE JANISSE from DRAIN - A DOGBOWL SHORT on Vimeo.
THIS HISTORIC 8MM FOOTAGE OF DOGTOWN'S FOUNDING MEMBERS, WAS CAPTURED IN THE SPRING OF 1977 BY WAYNE BABCOCK. WAYNE HAS NEVER RELEASED THIS FOOTAGE NOR HAS HE SHARED HIS VINTAGE DOGTOWN SKATEBOARD COLLECTION WITH THE PUBLIC, BOTH HAVE BEEN DONATED EXCLUSIVELY IN SUPPORT OF THIS PROJECt.

The Dog Bowl, originally known only to the most hardcore DogTown crew, was located in Northern Santa Monica - The Dogtown crew had their own pool that they could skate in peace. "Dino's Dog Bowl" was shortened to just "The Dog Bowl." A teenager with terminal cancer asked his father to drain the family pool on their huge estate overlooking The Brentwood Country Club Golf Course. Some of the most famous photographs in skateboarding were shot at the Dog Bowl. Tony Alva is credited with doing the first front side aerials at the pool in the fall of 1977. It was named "The Dog Bowl" because there were dogs always hanging out at the pool. On any given day over the summer of 1977 most of the entire DogTown crew were at the pool. Some of the best skating sessions EVER took place there.

The work of a wood craftsman

 Craig Cater lives down Nimbin way in the northern New South Wales hills. He has just sent me (Wooden Surfboards) a link to his site and these great shots of a couple of boards he has been building.

"Heres a few pix of my latest boards which I've been working on in tandem for the last few months.
Both are the same design & dimensions modelled on McCoy's designs."

6ft 4 inch x 20 inch  x 3 inch
17inch tail
13 1/2 inch nose
Wide point - 3 inches behind halfway
Bottom - 4mm convex
Fins -  one board has glassed on thruster setup
Other board has 10 inch fin box & side fin plugs

Skins -  5mm paulownia,  silky oak , red cedar , huon pine
Ribs -6mm paulownia
Spine - 5mm marine ply
Parquet mandalas - huon, silky, black wattle, camphour, paulownia & red cedar
Fins - Tasmanian Sassafras  - Huon pine , red cedar - epoxy coated
Finish- kinetix epoxy lam & fill coat - polyester finish coat -wet sanded to 2500 grit , buff & polish
Inside of board -  sealed with varnish

in, Wooden Surfboards