New Chopped Squares

Stay tuned for more..

Mini Fleet

Knuckle Head "C" aka Chris Caiazzo aka "the boy wonder" aka "I most likely got what you need" was cooling and flexing at the shaping bay. In between selecting tunes for the speakers and setting things straight, he lent a hand in photographing this mini fleet of Chopped Squares.

Two 5'8's and a 5'9

Headstand

Working up a few more Chopped Squares....

5'8 x 19 x 2 3/8 ( x2 )

and

5'9 x 19.125 x 2 3/8

Chopped Square (White Out)

This is the newest model to come out of my shaping bay. I made this little gem for my buddy Juan after he and I were geeking out on the new Dane Reynolds "Neck Beard". I've already made another 2 of them but this one weighs in at 5'8 x 19 x 2.25" . If all goes well "The White Out" will work great for anything from knee high to 2 feet over head with a proclivity for doing rail turn cutbacks with tons of speed. It features a big single concave to a panel V out of the tail, Chopped Square tail, low rocker overall with a little flip in the nose and a modern box rail. We named it "The White Out" because after signing and drawing on the board Juan painted over every bit of pencil work with white paint. This will be getting glassed and finned in the next 2 weeks.

Stay posted and enjoy...

Updates

(5'8 x 19 x 2.25 Grey Ghost "Chopped Square")

I just wanted to take a moment and apologize to everyone who checks my blog on the regular. I've been without at computer for the past 6+ months. Moving on...I just got a new computer and I will regularly be updating my blog so stay tuned and thank you for visiting.

xoxox

Clams

LB and meaty...

Lawrence Benin seen above in the ghost dojo holding his new foam form.

comfortable footing...

Above. My stunt double (Sal) inspecting his extraordinarily overdue birthday gift. This is one of the Grey Ghost x Ducksworth collaboration pieces. One of more to come. Grey Ghost x Ducksworth will be coming out with a few more collaborative pieces so stay tuned...

remnant of winter...

The fall and winter ended up being pretty generous to us this year. Of coarse Andrew and the rest of the Kidman family were in town long enough to get more than a taste of some of the best surf we've had in a year or two. However with the Kidman clans departure was the departure of a swell streak as well. We had weeks of flatness after that. The ocean felt the same way we did I guess. The photos above are of the notorious Quevz of the flesh and foam kind. Getting it in. Pre winter 2009.

Photos Courtesy of: Alexa Miller

The 5%er

Its been a while since my last post huh? .....Sorry about that. I've just been busy shaping and/or sick. I'm better now and will be regularly posting.

The specimen shown above is a new model I'm working on called "The 5 Percenter". (Thanks for the name Franco!) This is the first one so far but I'm working on another one in EPS now. Its 5'5 x 19 1/4 x 2 1/4 It features a fairly hard edge throughout the whole board for a little extra bite and response through turns. Its also going to be setup with 5 FCS fusion plugs for an option for quad. I managed figured out a harmonious fin placement for the board to work properly as a quad and thruster without effecting one or the other in a negative way, however the placement seems to only work best on the smaller boards.

Not quite six oh!

This little ashy number is the newest edition to my buddy Juans quiver. From the minds of Malik Jazz, much thought, conversation and collabortaion was devoted into the shape. The contours and rockers, were premeditated and the rails and tail shape revealed themselves in moment. Not quite the quevz model and not quite six'0 this board is 5'11.5 x 18.75 x 2 3/8 with a tapered cedar stringer for extra lip slapping action.
Juan and I wanted to experiment with using a lil' bit more foam then your average chip. We have high hopes for this one. I feel like it will be "The Little Engine That Could". This might very well be the 5'11 that you are comfortable taking out when everyone else is riding their six'tens . Ya dig? Foam was distributed and foiled out. The rails are a bit more bally then they appear and they have a little bit of the quevz down rail flavor. This is one of one so far. The search continues....Updates soon.

.quevz and frok.

This new Quevz model shaped for my stylish paizan Giuseppe "Frok" Giammona!

Quevz himself has been riding the board and we've been fine tuning it for maximum shredability. He just got back from Mainland Mex with "The Mini Guinea" himself, Chris "Knuckle Head" Caiazzo where they tested the board in the unfriendly black holes for Puerto Escondido. A new harder rail is being applied and the board is ready for the public and the first advocate of the Quevz way is Frok! Thanks dude! Email some photos of you shredding it!

This board is going to be the first generation quevz model that will be outfitted with 5 fin boxes and will have and option for quad.....the experiment continues..

stay tuned!

Almost forgot to mention that this was an old Clark foam blank!!