Johan working the rails, originally uploaded by steveyb.

Here I am tucking the laps on Steve’s longboard.

Used some tint made for paint coloring from Home Depot, which makes for a nice even color job on the EPS, as well as a new technique for wetting the rail laps out. (flip the laps onto the resin filled deck and let them soak up resin, instead of moving the resin onto the laps = no froth)

All in all this is turning out to be my best tinted board. Stoked!

Both Steve and Pat came by the shop to pay a visit and watched me at work on the last lam layer.

Pic from Stevey

Loongboard, originally uploaded by Form<->Function.

Here is the longboard that I am making for myself from the first blank cut.

I am adding the full length longboard to my repertoire for this year. This one turned out quite nice in shape with a nice classic look to it. We’ll see what kid of pinline action I give it.Full dims are 9′6″ x 17 3/8″ x 22 1/2″ x 15″ x 3″.

I have another one similar to this on order with my friend Steve. They should be good for some small wave cruising…..can’t wait!

Foam Cutting, originally uploaded by Form<->Function.

Here I am with a half of a longboard blank cut out.I got myself a ten foot block of foam from a new foam maker and have started cutting for my next production run. The foam looks really good and I am anxious to shape it.I am cutting 2 longboards for now; one for my friend Steve and the other for myself. Got some small wave riding planned for the summer.I gotta say….. that sure is a lot of foam! …I am almost 6′5″ tall..:-)

Car even more buried, originally uploaded by steveyb.

The blog section of the site was down for a few days, but it’s all back now. …minus a couple of pictures that I will have to see if I can track down.

While it was down we got another dumping of snow. Another 31 cm in fact, putting up our total so far this winter (not even started yet officially) to 110 cm which is about half of our yearly average for the past while.

And we are expecting another 10cm tomorrow. Holy cow! What a way to start the winter.

Though I have to say, that winters (snowy ones anyway), in the city are not as pleasing as ones in the country. Basically 30cm of snow makes the city a messy, hard to get around kind of place for several days afterwards.

But the slopes should be amazing!

Grabbed the pic from Stevey’s Flickr page. Haven’t been pointing and clicking much lately. Have to fix that.

templates, originally uploaded by Form<->Function.

I just finished off a couple of new templates this evening.

I made a spin template for the 9′6″ longboard. A spin template has a half side of the board on each of its sides, so you can make a long template out of a shorter piece of masonite and save some space on storing them as well. I think I’ll be converting a bunch of my existing templates to spin ones for those reasons as well as the fact that it will allow me to mix different curves from different templates to come up with new shapes.

The other one is a template for a 6′10″ Diamond tail, which I will be shortly using to try out a 5-fin Bonzer style board.

I’ll finish that one up in the next few weeks, as I am also on the lookout for a new shop space. I am looking to cut my costs a bit with a smaller space. If anyone knows of a decently priced space in the neighbourhood of 500 square feet let me know.

Semi-Gun Complete, originally uploaded by Form<->Function.

I am constantly testing out new shapes and different designs. Here is a semi-gun shape, made for when it gets a little bigger. (not a rhino chaser by any means)

It is 7′ x 20″ x 2 1/2″ with a tri-fin setup and single into double concaves.

We’ll see if gets any suitable action on the east coast; if not; maybe one of my friends will have some space in a board bag for their trip to Costa.

This weekend is the SacredCraft surfboard show in Del Mar California.

There will, of course, be tons of sweet boards and fins and things to peruse, but there will also be several talks on surfboard shaping and technology.

There is also going to be some talks about the industry, specifically there will be folks speaking out against the outsourcing of the sacred craft by many of the big industry players. It would be very interesting to see the debate between JP St. Pierre ,of Moonlight Glassing, or Jim Robertson of Lokbox fin system and reps from Lost, Channel Islands, Boardworks and 9Fish(who are all making boards overseas).

Long Board design, originally uploaded by Form<->Function.

Had this outline printed up the other day. I should be working on the actual templates very shortly.

Both my friend Steve and I want to have a longboard for those small days, and my next batch I will be getting a long block of foam and making at least 2 of them.

Making templates now, and next season cruisin’ and hopefully walkin’ the nose.

Shaped, originally uploaded by Form<->Function.

Just shaped this potato chip style thruster on Thursday.

6′ x 19″ x 2″

All of my EPS/epoxy boards are noticably lighter than the run of the mill PU/PE boards, but this shaped blank is sooooo light. I’ll be glassing it shortly and even after it’s done, I’m betting that this is going to be one super light board.

Semi-Fish, originally uploaded by Form<->Function.

Here’s one more Quad semi-fish. I’ve had some good feedback from these boards so far. Good small-medium wave board.

6′2″ x 14″ x 19 7/8″ x 15″ x 2 1/2″

Quad fin setup with thruster sides in front (EA 4 1/4″) and side bites in back (SB1 3 1/2″) and a green fade painted on the foam with pinline accent on the hotcoat.

It’s sitting on the racks waiting for a home right now.

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