Deconstruct

Deconstruction complete… a little ink-work to follow and the Rising Sun will be ready for gloss.

Spot the dots

Every now and again one of Malcolm’s customers orders a board with an opaque resin tint… sometimes this obscures the fin placement dots; fortunately the positions are well known to me.

Here’s a lovely opaque orange Bonzer 3 light vehicle... fins in the right place (another beer please Mr Penwarden).

More resin…

Todays resinations…Black resin pinlines, then a copper bronze resin-wash… ready for some serious deconstruction and inkwork next week…

 

To gloss or not?

The Rising Sun resin band is coming together nicely, just lots of time consuming stages with waits in between… today saw the the copper bronze cigar bands go on (love metallic pigments!), tomorrow some textural translucent copper bronze, and hopefully black pinlines, time allowing.

I’m loving how it is looking and now even a bit nervous about “deconstructing” it… and NOT glossing it… really?

  

Rising Sun resin band…

 

Rising Sun resin band underway... I always underestimate how long these take; this one is particularly complex... red complete, copper bronze to add, followed by some “deconstruction”, a little ink, and pinlines to finish... its going to be a few more days!

EVO3 from Glass Tiger

This was Mark’s first bonzer longboard, done a while back and one of the first boards we collaborated on… although my help was pretty much limited to the EVO3 bonzer template, angles and positioning.

Beautiful wood – walnut fins I think (correct me if I’m wrong Mark).

Mark and I still have a board in the pipeline, a kevlar carbon FreakFish but he’s been pretty busy so you won’t be seeing it anytime soon unless I get some wood and a vacuum bag!

Rising-Sun

I am so excited about this board – there is a lot going on with it and it represents some tweaks that I have wanted to add for a while, the hull nose, carbon reinforced rail in the tail, extra 10% inside foil on the rear fins, and Bernoulli concaves… next it gets really fun as I am starting the Rising Sun artwork, which will be a deconstructed resin-band-inkwork combo… maybe pinlines too. Domo arigato Hajime.

  

Bonzer kayak

A while ago a guy named David Willer contacted me about making a bonzer kayak and wanted some help on fins angles hulls etc. – here’s what he made and where you can see more… http://willersurfcraft.blogspot.com/2011/10/first-production-black-swan-by-murky.html 

Beautiful craftsmanship.

Foils of The Rising Sun

These are Hajime’s fins for his Rising Sun FreakFish. American Ash bonzer runners together with aircraft ply and glass layup for the rear FreakFish cut-aways… 

A complex foil to hand shape, but rewarding.