Free Sunglasses // MAY

MAY your eyes stay protected from the sun...

This month, get a free pair of Almond shades with any purchase of $25 or more.

In store, or online.

Offshore Tuesdays // Paipo Party

Offshore Tuesdays // Paipo Preview

Some days when it's small and blowing super hard off-shore, it's nearly-impossible to get into waves on a surfboard. With the Santa Ana winds in mind, as well as the coming close-out South swells in the summertime, Cameron and I decided to make ourselves a pair of paipos.

I hadn't ridden a body board since elementary school, but it seemed like a reasonable enough experiment; and a perfect option for windy offshore days with nobody out. We've dubbed days like this Offshore Tuesdays, regardless of which day of the week it actually is. Tuesdays seemed to embody the most exciting day for the surf to be perfect, because people are at work, and there's still nearly a whole work week ahead to enjoy offshore conditions.

Oden put together a little clip of the paipo creating and riding we did this weekend.

Not ready to make a full-time switch from logging to paipo-ing, but definitely a good option to keep handy. I still need to try this matting thing I keep seeing and hearing about.

Look for the paipo video tomorrow morning...

Saturdays Surf NYC x No.3

My friend in New York City sent me this magazine called No.3 with a nice piece on Saturdays.

A couple Pogie fishes hanging out in their board rack.

Dave Allee by Simon Perini

This is a photo Simon took during our mini-mal reshaping project. We cut an 8'2 down to a 6'2 and bladed it out a bit. It was a fun project to work on together, one that I hope we can make into an annual tradition.

Thirroul Backyard Shaping Session #1

Photo: Simon Perini

Cam Oden's Piglength Midlength

Cam's midlength is up for sale, so that he can continue to come up with new oddities.

Available at 367 Old Newport Blvd.

Lumberjacks // 2

2 custom lumberjacks headed home with customers this week.

First Wave!

My good friend Adam, and his son Elijah, enjoying Eli's first wave together.

(The Surf Thump is my favorite longboard too, Elijah)

Panels of White | Skies of Blue

9'7 Surf Thump by Griff-Kyle, Diagonal Deck Patch, Mahogany D-fin by the Gull.

Summer surfboard riding.

photoden.

DAVE THUMP

New surfboard for Summer! Refined Tan and White.

Photo: CamOden

Looking for: Little, Loggable, Lefts

Taylor Allee | Maneuvering little Blackies peelers on his Log Rhythm

Photos: Cam Oden

Triple Stringer Handplanes

Gully recently finished up a batch of handplanes with a fancy new look.

Just in time for summer.

Happy Birthday Yusuke!

Happy birthday to our good friend, and one of our favorite artists anywhere, Yusuke Hanai.

One of the nicest people you'll ever meet, and equally talented.

Handplanes Hawaii

Josh Guerra sent us this photo of himself body surfing in Hawaii with his Almond handplane.

In somewhat related news, we just ordered a small wood burning brand for the hand planes.

Muskaria Surf | Basque Country Spain

Our friends in Spain just opened a new shop called Muskaria.

Rad collection of surfboards and related goods.

And these guys make some amazing videos.

Muskaria has some new Almonds arriving next week.