Quick trip South of the Border...

Pretty fun morning...

Mexican Blanket?

So the deck pinline came out a little screwed up as you can see in the first pic. I used 50% UV sanding resin and 50% gloss resin with UV initiator and 2CC of MEKP for a base kick. Painted on the resin circles for my logo, then painted in the pinlines and took it out in the sun. It kicked so fast that when I pulled the tape some of the pinline came off with the tape...bummer! So I have sanded it down and will re-do the pinline with MEKP and do it the standard way I think...

As for the Mexican (Salvadorian) blanket look, I did the best I could with paint pens to make it look like my blanket, what do you think?

Getting there on the ASymm...

ASymm Fin Install

So I'm trying to figure out how to place my fins in the ASymm...After talking to George at Plus One I think I have a plan.

The pics below show the quad side set up as desired at: Front fin - 11 1/2" from tail, 1 1/4" from rail, 1/4" toe-in. Back fin - 5 3/4" from tail, 1 3/4" from rail, 3/16" toe-in.

The keel fin is shown set up as follows: 6" from tail, 1 1/4" from rail, 1/8" toe-in.

After talking with George I think I'm gonna move the keel fin up to about 6 3/4" from tail and keep my other numbers the same...routerto be buzzing as soon as the water surrounding the shed clears...

A sick cover of a sick song

The Gorillaz cover the XX's Crystalized

ASymm REDUX

Finally got a weekend to do my man hobbies. Laminated the bottom of the ASymm and brewed a batch of Black IPA!

Here is a shot of the deck of the ASymm after final shaping.

For the lamination, I thought why not do crazy ass lamination to go along with a crazy ass board. I've always wanted to try a Mexican Blanket look, so I got a half dozen squirt bottles and mixed up 6 different colors. Unfortunately I ended up with more of a rainbow look of primary colors. Next time I will make thinner lines, more colors, and add some black and white lines in between to break up the color a bit.

Here is what I was actually gunning for...

Well, the lamination came out pretty good despite the color not matching...and I'm sure this crazy ass board will draw stares wherever it surfs...



12 Hours South of the Border from Aaron Schall on Vimeo.

A short little video Aaron put together of my recent adventure to Mex...Enjoy!-