Hand shaping pu foam, stand up paddle surfboard.

Part 2 video. shaping of the stand up paddle surfboard. Part 3 video will include fin install routing out etc. some rail work.
 After these videos. I might try and do some videos resin tint colors, for the glassing of the boards.

Hand shaping, pu foam. Stand up paddle surfboards.

Over time I have Taken a fond view of the stand up paddle boards. I like every one els has their own reasons. Theres a greater feeling of accomplishment pulling together the extra long lines, as if shaping a whole boat from a block..I put together a small video. The video is time shifted for times sake. Some boards take longer than others. The next video post after this one will show more detail work of finishing off the blank and final shaping,..See if I can put together couple episods.

Winter, Washington (state). Some swell from the Northwest to surf.

Jumped in the truck., Drove below to the shop,.. Grabbed the combo sup., hit the road for 2 hrs...took some quick video shots.!   video below.!

                     Greatest drive in the world, is the drive to go play in some surf.
 Every year there's more and more of us out there.. The first plan was to be able to, supply surfboards for my self and friends.
                 As time passes the opportunity's have arrived to,,, have a possible sale or two from my surfboards..  That is a great option to have.. I'm not sure if it is the love I have of the water.? or the waters ability to romance anybody's  mind and body to complete bliss. There has not been a more complete feeling inside of me> (when a board is sold, or just finished a ready.) Just like having a warm wave wash over you laying on a soft sandy beach.

Milking some small waves, on the stand up paddle board

Straight of Washington State.

Some stand up paddle surfing,,.. On a combination flat water and surf stand up paddle board. Built by Tight knot surf shop. Surfed by Ross Carlson. Built with a S.B.T. tracking chip. please visit www.surfborad-tracker.com for more information. All surfboards built by Ross Carlson at the Tight Knot Surf Shop come with a tracking unit installed for a safe and secured %100 hand crafted and designed in the state of WA. surfboard or paddle board.

Some Washington rain cloud pictures

After the rain clouds broke away.!!

Small video below of some small waves that showed their face as we arrived.

Arrived with some mini peelers looking back at us.. What a great day to grab some surf. The start of fall felt Great. Put the wet suit on not to long after this photo.  Ended up being a all day event, left around 6:00 pm..

Small Surf Washington, Point Surf.,

Small point surf in Washington.  Some big swell out on the coast.,,. Rolls swell right down our straights.  point breaks pop up here and there..If you have been on the water for some of the breaks along the straights, while the waves are pumping its a special treat. The picture below shows a small average day.. might be 6-8 ft at the coast.. With the right direction this gives us some chest high peelers seen below.. flooding tide and yum yum... This day got bigger I think,., I remember.,.?? Removing myself from the water only once that day.

Washington surfboard shop

Recently did some small modifications to the surf shop.. made a single glassing room upstairs for now.
this keeps all the sanding and major mess with dust in the bottom part of the shop.

This modification greatly reduces any contamination from dust and the like. I would like to add another glassing station upstairs, along with some finished board storage areas on the side.

Along with glassing. The station upstairs provides a great place to paint and do small other projects..
This next summer I hope to have a the outside of the surf shop upgraded with more storage and a finer look.. even though everybody seems to like the Pacific North Western Washington woods shop look... But this has been a long run for me.. Wen I first started work the shop was covered in weeds blackberry's and totally over run. All the way up to the gutters.. No floor.. rats mice ,,,  and who knows what els..

Many years have gone by since the first idea of building surfboards and the such in Washington. Times and people have come and gone,.,., Things have changed so much from the first days of dreaming... 1990 building skim boards and such in Port Townsend WA. skate boarding downtown hitching rides on car bumpers.. Some of the first to bring plywood to the now PT skate park...

I have met buckets full of great people and have received great advice, personal and work related. As the days have past, my ideas of what this shop may become or the wave that we ride together are constantly changing,, the constant evolution of my work surf board and water craft related allows my eyes to remain open to new ideas and ways of thinking....

Thank you all for your support and advice.... Nothing would be possible without your help...

Custom surfboard, with custom logos and color.

A small fat board. Made for small waves limit in power. An odd shape. In this case makes for a super fun small surfboard . Capable of letting you climb out on the nose. The Green Cow!

This board has alot of special sauce running down the underside belly.

Washington state. Hand shaping custom surfboards paddleboards etc..

From surfing the north west waters,...This gives me the ideas needed  to design and build boards that respond to the Pacific North Wests waters. Being around the water my whole life, from being born on Vashon Island WA.. To living on a 36' steel Roberts sail boat. on the Port Townsend  docks, and main boat yard... As we always seemed to be working on that boat,... The steal Roberts was Remodeled From a old troller that fished Alaska. To a round the world cruiser..

Now some of the latest boards built.

Surf paddler.

flat water barge. paddler.

Fish surfboard.

Short board with extra float.

Surfboard painting, logos, color resin tinting.

Considerable trial and trial over and over is what it takes to figure out good ways on coloring or painting your surfboards with good methods comes good return.

There are two different boards below one is a 6' fish and the other is a 10' paddle board.

both branding the 308 degree logo for the pacific north west surf areas. Both designs are inspired by the PNW along with the art. The greens and blues, along with the big gray rails of the paddle board, with a nice green smeeer down the middle. The quad fin fish has a northwest swell hand drawing, eating up the state of washington 308 degree logo

pin line

after gloss

after gloss

some of the first sun of the year.

color tinted resin poured on

taped off and gelling up

308 deg logo with the gloomy gray north west  rails  coloring starting.

rails colored in gloom gray.

fins in

glossed the bottom.

Custom fiberglass E.P.S. & PU FOAM. PADDLE BOARDS,SURFBOARDS.

I have jumped away from only building wood surfboards, I have had the chance to work with foam, the results were great.
Using pigments and old school shaping style. Did not even use the power planer until i was able to be satisfied with my boards without using one. The one thing i do not like about the foam is the wast of foam dust. While wood saw dust can be reused into couple other uses other than garbage. Using the foam dust after being on the floor and mixed with dirt and other debris. I Do not have much use for the foam dust at this point. On the second  to last pic you can see how much foam dust is in the shop.

Below are a couple US blanks 10' paddle board blanks, along with couple pictures of shaping some lines in the blank. This is my Tanker 308 stand up paddle (s.u.p.) great for the pacific north west and Puget Sound Paddle boarding. Finished pictures with color tinted resin styling, will be on the next post.