New custom hand plane

Here 's a new custom hand plane, or I might call this model a Hand Sled, for a birthday present. Made from royal paulownia with mahogany stringers and white cedar and mahogany nose & tail blocks. I did a little experiment with texturing the deck on this one too. As always there is a nice concave on the bottom for lift.

I think this is my favorite one so far. Models like this one will be around $150 if anyone is interested. Basic hand planes start @ $65. Send any custom orders to info@JKSurfArt.com

New Recycler Paipo project...

I always start projects and never seem to reconnect with them till months later. I stripped the glass from the nose of HAARRRRYYYY's old Stewart and templated out one of the Tomb Stone templates on it months ago. Then, a few weeks ago I spent a day ripping wood for cutting boards. I ripped a piece of white cedar I found in the rafters for outside stringers on the paipo randomly during that session. I cut the blank and finally started gluing in the stringers tonight. This is what she looks like so far.

^^Before glue^^

^^Glued Up^^

These Recycler projects are fun little projects. I think I'm going to make recycled wood flooring d-fins on this. It should be interesting to see how this one turn out.

Let the cutting boards start up again...

Kara, an old friend from my art school daze, contacted me on Facebook about a cutting board for her husband. I of course said yes. This one is going to be a beast... 2' long by about 18" wide and 2" thick. WOW! I'm going to have to take the glue-up to the mill to plane it down, b/c my planer can only handle 12 1/2" boards. Here are the boards being milled from a few pieces of maple hardwood flooring scraps my buddy Jimmy gave me. Plus there will be pieces of purple heart, yellow heart, black walnut, and mahogany being put into the random glue-up blank.

Cutting boards for Xmas gifts...

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The Cutting Board Above Is

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It seems these things are taking off. I'm making cutting boards and have already sold a bunch for Xmas. If you would like one (or more) contact me now so I can get it glued up and finished off before Xmas. I'll ship these out, but make sure you get you get your order in now, the last day I feel safe shipping out is Dec 15th.

You can find some of these and ones like them on my Etsy site...www.etsy.com/shop/JKSurfArt

"Perfect Trim" sculpture

A new sculpture for my non existent blog posts... Perfect Trim is a small sculpture on a hunk of royal paulownia. The board is made of bass wood with a mahogany and maple t-band and a paduk fin. finishing off the sculpture is a patina copper wave lined with small pieces of driftwood. This surf art sculpture will be for sale on my Etsy site. Sorry for the blurry pics.

Here's another one of them tharrrr tide clocks for the Old Salt in Ocean City, NJ... The body of the glue-up is Maple & Brazilian Cherry with a t-band of blood wood, pine & purple heart.

Finally found my camera...

Woo hoo!!!

So here are some tide clocks I've been building...

These will be available @ the Old Salt on the boardwalk @ 13th St in Ocean City, NJ.

Alaia for the No Passport Needed raffle is finished.

Red Cedar & Paulownia tailblock

white cedar Alaia

This board will be raffled off @ the party for the No Passports Needed movie tomorrow night 4/9 @ Yesterdays Bar in Marmora NJ. Raffle tickets are $10 each.

I made this board from 3 strips of white cedar. Finished in a waterborne polyurethane.

Busy woodworking day...

White cedar alaia w/ red cedar and paulownia tailblock

Harry's paulownia arc tail alaia

Handplane #10 paulownia, red cedar & mahogany (sold)

Handplane #11, paulownia downrailed swallow tail (sold)

I spent most of yesterday working on some projects for clients and my Etsy shop.

The Alaia Raffle board (Being raffled off @ Yesterdays restaurant in Marmora, NJ on 4/9/10) has been cut out. I also cut the bottom concave in yesterday as well as planed out the bottom rails. This board is made from white cedar with a red cedar and paulownia tail block. For raffle tickets contact me @ info@JKSurfArt.com .
Harry's Alaia has been skinned and is ready for the concave to be cut into the bottom.
Finally I made 2 new bodysurfing hand planes, one for a client and one for stock. The first is a slipper model made from paulownia with red cedar and mahogany stringers. The second is a downrail swallow tail model for Paul Aman. I'm coating both of these with a sanding sealer and a waterborne polyurethane. Once that is dry I'll add the straps.

New 3' boards in the works...

I've been working on some boards for clients lately. These are all around 3' , hand glued and shaped. The first 2 are for Lance and are going to be wall hangers. #3 is for a large sculpture and is once again inspired by Mike (Gnar Gnar) Black's Pig project. The 4th will be for a large sculpture also which will be placed in a local dentist office. # 2 & 3 will get glass chopstick fins that I am about to mount today. More pics to follow.

Heritage Ocean City counter tops cont...

The counter tops are now coated and look insane!!! There is so much figuring in the African Mahogany. The shimmers of gold are my favorite.

Heritage Ocean City counter tops

I've been working for the last month on building a new counter for Heritage Surf Shop in Ocean City, NJ. The base display cabinets are built out and now I'm working on the counter tops. This top is inspired by the floors I helped Jim Hyde of Old School Hardwood Floors install in Steve and Cookies by the Bay in Margate, NJ. It is reminiscent of an old boat deck. The African Mahogany and Maple set themselves off very cool. Here are shots of the tops before coating them.

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.

"The Duke" large surf sculpture

"The Duke"

This is a large surf sculpture that measures approx. 4' tall. The board is about 3' and made from red oak, mahogany, and yellow heart with a purple heart and maple fin. The base is made from a found cedar log with other various driftwoods attached. The shorts are hand sewn from a pair of the infamous DJ Bobby K's original shorts which ripped @ a surf contest a few years ago.

This sculpture is available. Please contact me for information and shipping prices.

5 in PR...

"5 in PR"

for sale here

This is a sculpture I finished the other day inspired by some of the noserides I got @ Maria's while in PR. The base is a piece of paulownia. The hand hammered copper wave has a patina. The board is made from 7 strips of red oak and mahogany with a maple fin. I placed this one on a spring like the dashboard riders. The combination of the surfer on the spring and the flexible wave give this sculpture great kinetic movement.

Mystic 10 Surf Sculpture

"Mystic 10"

This sculpture is made from a cool piece of driftwood I found. I found myself sitting in the studio and dreaming of surfing this wavelike curl. You can't see them in the photos, but I love the stones the wood grew around.

The base is glued up maple and black walnut. The surfboard is red oak and mahogany.

SOLD

Happy New Year

So, I've been so busy building hand planes for everyone else that I haven't built one for myself yet. I glued up some scraps of paulownia I had leftover w/ stringers of red cedar and mahogany. After the outline was cut out and the hand plane was shaped I added channels. I'm going to take this down to PR the next time I go.

Hand Plane #6

Here is paulownia hand plane #6. It has a light concave in the bottom for enhanced lift. Coated w/ a linseed oil bees wax mix. I left this one a little thicker @ about 3/4" hopefully for added buoyancy. I have this one up for sale on my Etsy site here.

Paulownia Handplanes #4 & 5

#4 Paulownia Handplane

sold

#5 Paulownia Handplane

gifted to Anthony the Barber

Just finished off bodysurfing handplanes #4 & #5. Both are made from Royal Paulownia and are coated w/ a linseed oil and beeswax finish.

#4 is for sale for $65

Paulownia Hand Plane #2

Here is #2. This is a cut through handle design. I think I am liking the surface mount handles better, but there is something earthy & "green" about not adding nylon strapping. I cut a nice concave in the bottom of this to try to achieve some lift while bodysurfing.