Malcolms New Ride

classic weight foam, triple cedar stringers, 8oz volan glass job, handmade fiberglass fin. a beautiful glider made to ride a lifetime and pass down to the next generation!

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GLENN DID HIS HOMEWORK!

1ST GRASSHOPPER MINI SIMMONS STYLE GLIDER - 2# EPS STRINGERLESS

5'7 20"TAIL 22.5"WP 19.5"NOSE 3" THICK

Endcaps

got the rails and the nose/tail blocks put on the woodie fish #2. its about ready for some glass! super stoked on this one!!!

Double Endin Longin Dongin

this is a cool custom i am shaping up right now 9'4 16.5T 23.5WP 18.75N kind of a double ended shape. this one is going to be like riding a cloud!

Fun Surf

WillyT and I catching some fun ones during the run of swell we had a couple weeks ago.

Pics from follysurf.blogspot.com and magicseaweed.com

These are for sale

left to right - 5'7 quad, 5'9 thruster, 6'1 eps quad. give me a shout if you need a new shredstick!

Rhett is Stoked

Metamorphosis

(BEFORE) Check this out! A Clark Foam 6'5 original. Clark went out of business in 2005 so that makes this bad boy at least 6 years old. A bud dragged it out from under his house water stained and caked in dirt. Maybe there is some good foam underneath.......
(AFTER) Yep - some good foam still in there - check out this shape that I found inside!

Maria

They just keep coming! The 3rd sister - Maria!

BTW - Katias swell was pumping at sliders point, weasel reef, and the crocodile river mouth of death! We must protect these secret spots!

Virgin White

I love the way a bright white stringerless blank gleams in the shaping room. this one will get a bamboo deck and an extra layer of glass to stiffen it up. check out the woodie in the corner - got the top and bottom skins on, next will be the rails. and some classic loggies up in the racks waiting to be glassed!!!!

Some EPS blanks ready to be shredded!

been doing a lot of longboards lately - its nice to get into some shortboards again!

New Woodie in the Works

PLANS

CORE AND SKIN

KATIA

what a sexy name for a storm - and it looks like she is going to treat us right! GET THE LOOOOGGGGGGGS READY!

Grasshoppers in Japan!

check this out - there are grasshoppers surfing in Japan!

24.6 FT @ 16 SEC

Well Irene you totally surpassed the hype this evening with some of the biggest clean surf I have ever seen in SouthCarolina. The washout lived up to its name once again and washed over the dunes all over the road - take that beach re-nourishment! It was like a spectator sport today as ALL the crosswalks were stuffed with people whose cheers for valiant rides and bone crunching wipeouts could be heard in the lineup. Our prayers are with our friends and families in North Carolina tonight - BE SAFE!

(check out more shots at follyhood.blogspot.com follysurf.blogspot.com & thomasbrothersblog.com))

IRENE

SATURDAY AM - BRING IT!

STOKE!

I thought you'd appreciate to hear that my brother in-law rode the fish you shaped me yesterday and it rekindled his stoke for surfing. He moved away from the shore several years ago and has had an on again off again relationship with surfing ever since. Yesterday he told me he's back. Thought you'd enjoy that story. See you out there this week

OH SHIT!

Finssssssssss

Layed up a smoke colored fin panel today. going to be itchy tomorrow.

Update: product of itchiness and their respective hulls.

Shapin!

Making of a Slayer from Neska! Productions on Vimeo.

More Surfing Adventures South of the Border

I am living my big wave stoke through some bros who are charging serious waves in Central America on some boards that I built - I may not be charging but at least my boards are!

Storkyyy,

I did the unthinkable and possibly surfed chandlers last wave. I didn't think it was possible but I buckled him at outer reef pulling into the 2nd section barrel which went bone dry slamming the two of us into a dry slab of slate rock. Somehow I escaped relatively unscathed besides a solid hipper and minor abrasions, and i thought chandler would be ok too... until the set behind was even more monstrous and upon my scramble out if its grasp it slammed us again obliterating chandler into two and stripping glass all the way to the fins, making fixing it not really possible. I feel worse than Ive ever felt for breaking a board both because I was really getting a feel for those heavy footed bottom turns and sheer hellfire speed in the tube, and obviously for sending a special board of yours into boardie heaven. I'll be back soon now that im board less and broke needing to get back to real world .... hasta luegos muchacho. -siempunk

I'M BACK!

We had an amazing trip - the beauty of the land and sea and the openness of the people in Maine and the Canadian Maritimes is indescribable. Heard the waves were fun here the other day - we scored some pretty fun surf up there too!

NE

headed up to maine and points north next week - cant wait to lounge in some cool weather, eat some lobsters, and hopefully find a couple glassy little peaks like this one (photo courtesy of magicseaweed.com)!

Shredding with the Boogie!

Homies ripping it up on some old boards

cool to see some yellow old hoppers making it from one summer to the next and still catching the eye of the photogs (from mike @ www.follysurf.blogspot.com)

Time to put on the rollerskates

just got these blanks (custom glue-ups!) from US Blanks today - this batch of logs is going to keep me busy for a while. half are staying around here and the other half are going to make a fantastic voyage down to the sunshine state. keep your eye on these diamonds in the rough - there are going to be some very special sleds coming out of this heap of foam and wood.

OLDIE

Sneaking around a local pawn broker yesterday and came upon this - a board I made in '06 - from the first batch I made after coming back from hawaii - in the wake of the clark foam closure. used some blanks from a company starting up in flordia. talk about some shitty foam. this board has sucked in like crazy over the years. always fun to find things like this.........

BOOST

bryant (http://www.thomasbrothersblog.com/) captured a cool little moment of me last week trying out a new board in some super fun glassy wedges. this one looks weird with a flat deck and drop rails and 4 skegs but it really suits the way i like to surf - stoked!!!

Bryant sent over a sequence of the above shot and another pic - thanks Bryant! man that was a super fun morning of little wedges!

Tricky Fishy

Is this a fish? It sure doesnt look line one.......Designed to give the fish to people who do not like fishes hehe