Been busy in the forge turning old pawn shop hammer heads into adze and axe heads. My hands generally take about three days to recover after each session. Blacksmiths are hard.

Shu... so after a very long time I am back in the bay and making some boards. This is a very tricked out custom nose rider for Ben, who has been extremely gracious in waiting so very long.

Long overdue road trip to wild places. 300000yr old hand axes in the Karoo, Kraal thorns as big as your hand and endless knarly barrels. Great way to unwind.

You only need one they said..

.... and here I thought they were talking about FINS!!!!! Ok so I have a bit of a problem with single fins but hey knowing what the PROBLEM is, is half way to the solution. Every one hand made start to finish by me. Even the FINS....

9,2 gun for winter

9,2 diamond tail single fin for winter. Double barrel concave out back with a touch of v in the nose

10" D fin. Birch ply with carbon and fiberglass base. NOSETIME>>>>>>>>>>>>

SWAMI inspired slider

The Problem Child.........

Andrew laying every inch or rail down on the board below. Kalk Bay Cape Town.

Epoxy lams and fin making on some comp-sand stand-up paipo boards by WAWA shaped by Andrew Stoude.

7.6 squash tail 70's style mini sunset gun for David. Teal blue and coke bottle green resin tint. Polish deck and 1000 linear wet sand bottom. Gave David a period template and the good people at Maish fins hooked him up with a killer fin to complement this board. Looking forward to some feedback from Flameballs.