5'6 Balsa // Kookumber Project

5'6 Balsa wood Kookumber with white abstract tail.

Work in Progress at The Waterman's Guild.

Photoden Camera

Golden Kookumber

Golden Tinted Kookumber.

Glassed in Wooden Singlefin by Gully.

Sanded Gloss Finish.

Kevin's Kookumber

Orange tint with Teal Resin Splash.

Special Zebrawood fin by Gully.


















Insane Zebrawood fin by Gully.

5'6 Quadkumber

White opaque reverse wrap. Plywood fins by good golly Gully.

Jimmy Quad

Jimmy Pham enjoying some great mid-winter, summer-like, conditions on his Quadkumber.

photo: Sam Schafer

Wooden Quads

2 Quadkumbers with wooden fins in production at Waterman's right now.

Balsa Kookumber

Here's a completely balsa wood Kookumber we did recently, as a part of the ongoing Kookumber Project.

Photo/Layout: C. Omarion Oden

Kookumber Variations

Single or Quad.

Just a couple kooks

1" Balsa Stringer Kookumber & Chambered Balsa Kookumber

photo: Cameron Lamar Oden

New Display

We have a new display in the shop for the Kookumber Project.

Come by and take a look.

Kookumber Project | Hollow Redwood Kookumber

The first board in the Kookumber Project series is glassed, polished, and on display in the shop.

This one is a hollow redwood construction, 5'6 Kookumber.

Complete with nose block and glass on fin.

More info on the process and finished product coming soon...

Photos: Oden

Donavon Frankenreiter and the Kookumber

Donavon Frankenreiter played a show in Roxanne's backyard on Friday night.

Through a series of events, I ended up getting my Kookumber from the car so Dono could give it a look.

I'm pretty sure he was genuinely stoked on it. He left his John Hancock on the bottom.

Double Shaka Quadrocept

Jimmy, ready for some New Zeland fun on his Quadkumber.

Kookumber Project #2

Kookumber Project Update.

- The Hollow Redwood Kookumber is in the glassing process. Greg Martz laminated it late last week.

- I passed off the chambered balsa blank to Griffin yesterday so he could finish shaping it. (Not before ensuring that the tail was at least 2 shakas wide)

{Cam'ron O'den took photos}

Balsa Kookumber

I'm embarking on a new project. I want to build a kookumber in as many different surfboard constructions as I can. My Dad and I will be working together on this project, and probably Griffin at times as well. But since the kookumber is our most unique looking board (and one of my personal favorites), I want to explore and see how many different ways we can construct one.

We've already done plenty of them with regular foam and fiberglass. We just did a hollow redwood one. Now we're working on a chambered balsa one. Next maybe a recycled Marko EPS blank with entropy resin? Or a composite sandwich board? Only time will tell.

Here's the fully chambered balsa blank for new 5'4.