Showing posts with label OLC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label OLC. Show all posts

Saturday, March 6, 2010

Harry's Alaia continued...



I finished out gluing up the tailblock to Harry's board. I added a few more pieces of wood too. Here is a pic of the tailblock glued up and the outline of the tail cut out.

Friday, February 26, 2010

Curved tail block...


Here is a shot of the curved tail block I came up with for Harry's Alaia sitting in the jig. It's made from 3 strips of Honduran mahogany and 2 strips of royal paulownia.

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Harry's Alaia


Here is the glue up for my OLC buddy Harry's alaia. Harry is the owner/roaster of Harry and Beans Coffee, yep, the guy that keeps me all coffeed up!
I ran into a bit of trouble milling this paulownia. The last time I got some it was very clear w/ minimal knots. This batch, from a different source, was riddled w/ worm holes and knots. Unfortunately I had to mill it into smaller pieces, so this glue-up is made from 5 pieces of royal paulownia. It's going to be around a 6'4 arc tail. I might do some fancy glue-ups in the tail for effect. We'll see.

Friday, December 25, 2009

Merry Christmas Brian


Here is handplane #3 for my friend Brian Wynn of Wynn Surfboards.
Made from paulownia and coated w/ a bees wax linseed oil mixture.
Merry Xmas Brian.

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

The first Paulownia hand plane "The Flat Fish"

Here is the first of many hand planes I've been working on. It's made from paulownia scrap that I didn't want to discard from making the alaias. It has a flat top rolled bottom and an adjustable hand strap. I coated it in the same linseed oil and bees wax solution the I've been using on the alaias. This one is going to Richard Tator of the OLC for a Xmas present.

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

DBR for Monk's buddy in Cali...


I told Monk I would make this for him about a month ago. I finally finished it.
The board is american cherry w/ a maple stringer. The base is black walnut, yellow heart, blood wood, and ash.

Monday, December 1, 2008

The OLC fights hunger


During this holiday the Offshore Longboard Club is running a canned & nonperishable food drive. Drop off boxes will be available @ all the Ocean City, NJ area surf shops. All of the donations go to help the Food Bank of South Jersey. 

Please drop off donations between 12/1 & 12/21 @
  • Surfers Supplies
  • Heritage Surf & Sport, Ocean City
  • 7th St Surf Shop
  • Offshore Surf Shop, Marmora
  • Rojo's Tacos 6th St, OC
  • Heritage Surf & Sport, Margate

Thank you for your support

Sunday, January 27, 2008


The other day my friend Monk called to tell me the surf was good @ out local spot. Chest high and clean was the call and a balmy 41 deg water temp. He had just gotten back from a trip to Fla and was happy to be home. We started talking about the good times we and the rest of the OLC have had in the past surfing together. There have been contests up and down the East Coast, and our trip to Malibu Ca. this past fall. Evidently he felt the camaraderie in Fla wasn't the same as it is here in Jersey.

Here's a shot of Monk from the BU in Sept.