Schuyler McFerran Signature Wetsuit by Almond

New full-page ad that CamOden put together for our women's wetsuit.

More info available on the forthcoming new website...

Korduroy TV | Wax Remover

Here's an oldie but goody.

Thomas VanMelum | Pipeline 2011

Our good friend, Thomas, participated in the pipeline body surfing contest last month. Thomas is a Wedge guy, and signed up for the Pipeline contest, having never even been to Hawaii.

It was bound to be either a smashing success or a huge dose of humble pie.

Fortunately for Thomas, his years at Wedge served him well. He somehow scored one of only 2 10-point waves of the contest. (sequence below) Photos: www.gregrimagery.com

He racked up the highest combined score in the history of the contest, before being surpassed by Mike Stewart 5 minutes later.

And possibly most excitingly, he connected with the Malloys, as they're working on their new bodysurfing film, Come Hell or High Water.

Matt Cuddihy | First Point Noosa

First point fun from :P on Vimeo.

Happy Birthday | Taylor Allee

Happy 20th Taylor!!

We'll have a celebratory surf tomorrow, when you don't have 9 hours of class.

In related news, thanks for packing all your classes into 2 days so you can be around the shop the other 3.

Spring Break | Lumberjack

Gully, showing off a new 9'4 Lumberjack for the shop.

Gully is on Spring Break this week, so he's got plenty of extra time to foil fins and handplanes

...and surf

Try to be flexible...

Cam Oden drew up the template for this sexy flexy fin.

Laid up and hand-foiled by Mark Stavron.

Preparing for Summer

Short John and Quadkumber... Summer is around the corner.

2mm Short John Wetsuit made in Japan.
5'6 Quadkumber Surfboard made in California.

Quadkumber Ad

Here's a recent ad that Oden put together for On The Board Magazine JP.

QU4DKUMBER.

One Week Left | Love for Japan

http://almond.bigcartel.com/

Happy Birthday | Cameron Oden

Happy 22nd Birthday to photo/video/visual/seakitten/quadkumber/littleflatskateboard extraordinaire, and friend, CamOden.

Reshape at Casa del Perini

Simon and I stripped the glass of an old mini-mal at his house while I was staying with him, and I reshaped it into a 6'2. It ended up pretty hully because of the thickness flow of the board once we got it all cleaned up. One of the first things I told Simon when I finished the board was "Don't show it to Kyle when he comes to visit, he'll be too critical of the rails"

I know Lightner all too well... he went straight for the rails when he saw the board. But I was relieved to get an email from Kyle saying he was stoked on the board, and the rails, and he gave it the nod.

It was a fun project to do with Simon during my stay there. Now it's up to Simon and his friend Brett to glass the thing.

Stoked you're home Kyle.

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

Lifted this from Schuyler McFerran's blog.

Where do I get a car like that?

Surfboards for Simon and Seamouse

We were stoked to be able to make some longboards for some talented and wonderful friends of ours, Simon Perini and Keiron 'Seamouse' Lewis.

Here's Simon with his 9'2 Surf Thump, and Seamouse with his 9'2 Log Rhythm. (Simon photo: Kyle Lightner)

Last photo is of Seamouse's first session on his board (Photo: Aquabumps)

Cheers Amigos!

Schuyler's Fin

We recently picked up a batch of new fin templates from Mark Stavron.

Super stoked on how they turned out.
























Schuyler designed this template for her personal board.

Look for this design coming to a fin department near you.