Wood parabolic EVO5 bonzer

This was the 6’8” EVO5 post Mentawais. Not a mark on her despite being ridden in the largest of the waves. This board is as light/lighter than a PU of the same length even with the wooden deck and chestnut parabolics. A great way to make a beautiful and high performance bonzer… if you have deep pockets. These go out at £850 including the FCS fins and a mat finish, add another £100 for gloss (which would look awesome!). They are collaborations with Mark from Glass Tiger, so leadtimes get a little stretched as we pass it between us. Allow 6-8 weeks. Has to be the ultimate travel board though!

EVO5 bonzer 6’8” Cleanline woody…

A new test from myself and Mark at Glass Tiger . It’s a 6’8” x 20 1/4” x 2 5/8” Cleanline EVO5 with oak parabolic rails, epoxy 6oz bottom and a wood/epoxy 4oz sandwich deck. We aiming to achieve a superlight wood option with a more traditional flex pattern.

Big thanks to Mark, Jason, Daz and Nigel for pushing this one through in time for the Mentwais trip, leaving this Thursday. Right now Daz is getting the FCS plugs in and fighting against the clock to have it hard enough to flip over, do the valve, the fin box + drill through, and then sand it before I go.

   

RIP Amber…

RIP Richard’s EVO5 Cleanline which succumbed to punchy Irish crystal chambers yesterday…

More foam for Mentawais… Glass Tiger collaboration EVO5 bonzer

This board is going to get a bit trippy when you next see it…

Here we have the EPS core shaped last week… yesterday Jason glassed it in 6oz epoxy on the bottom with 4 oz cut rails all in a pastel olive green… and it looks amazing with its angular rails ready and waiting for next weeks 1.5mm wood deck and some 3/8” parabolic oak rails… then it comes back for a 4 oz clear epoxy deck and rail wrap before it gets its FCS bonzers in an EVO5 set-up. So it is half Glass Tiger half epoxy Cleanline for Indo… The shape has a little more rocker than i normally put in to fit the curvy faces we hope to be surfing, and to help control all that speed. Only reservation I have is i don’t want to get hit by those oak rails!

6’7” x 20 1/4” x 2 5/8” finished shape

  

Post Op

Just had my cartilage trimmed in a little keyhole op this weekend… so my apologies to all followers that there will be a bit of  lag before posting resumes… which is pretty frustrating as i have 4 boards to shape, one set of Freak Fish fins to foil, a kelp tint and pinlines and a Hendrix ink-job to do… so until i get back in the flow of things here's the last board to be shaped before the op…

It is a 6’5” Cleanline Bonzer 5 for Mark at Glass Tiger…

 

Nugget inspired bonzer… ready for finishing

  

6’2 x 20” x 2 7/8” vortex bottom with rolled V… designed for barrels, to be ridden as a single fin or as a bonzer (FCS B5s). This board was inspired by my Geoff McCoy Nugget which has delivered me into the best barrels of my life. Thought it was about time I applied some of his theories to a board of my own, with a few twists and turns based on my own ideas. Also need a name for this model – and have yet to find an inspired name… any suggestions?

Wooden 6'4" Cleanline bonzer 5

A Glass Tiger/TS collaboration for Pete up near Fraserborough, Scotland: 6'4 x 20 1/2 x 2 3/4" bozer 5 Cleanline.  Shaping, artwork, colour staining by yours truly with Mark from Glass Tiger doing all the woody bits.

Wooden bonzer 5

I cant post the finished article yet as I want Pete to be the first to see it when it arrives by carrier to Scotland... this shot was taken just before i started artwork and staining. Loved how this shot showed the expansion joint in the nose, and the subtle but very definite concaves through the tail.

Wood bonzer EVO5 Cleanline gets rails...

Peter's board took a significant step closer to disappearing into some Caithness crystal today. Mark and I set to work on the rails - it's looking so epic we've decided we need one each (as a demo of course)...

EPS/Wood Cleanline bonzer 5

Not the nicest  material to shape BUT I think it all went well… by the time this one is coated in its wood skin by Glass Tiger I am sure it will be worth the effort. The hardest thing for me was having to shape whilst visualising the rails (1/2” wood laminates each side) – so the rails are all squared off and with very little roll under when shaped. Next it heads to Mark down in Falmouth to get skinned before we reconvene to do the rails together.

It’s a 6’4” Cleanline bonzer 5: Tim Stafford-Glass Tiger collaboration and heading up to Peter in Scotland. Hopefully it will get into some Caithness Glass before too long.

  

Devil is in the detail

Just one of my recent favourites... amber resin tint by myself and Jason, pinlines by Chris Harris, and pen artwork by yours truly.

Nothing new under the sun...

I was browsing Duncan and Malcolm's site this evening and came across an interesting photo which proves the saying "there is nothing new under the sun"...

An early bonzer by Malcolm contrasted against a modern high performance | My "new" shapes: 6'0" Porpoise Vs. 6'10" Cleanline.

SOLD - Amber EVO5 bonzer

6'10" x 20 1/2" x 2 3/4" Cleanline EVO5 in amber resin tint with blue flash. Fins in American Ash.Another demo board so contact me if you'd like to try this one out. Designed to get in early in the bigger stuff and then carve all over the face. Ideal travel board.

Just been sold to Richard in Ireland to tackle some serious Gary William juice...

6'4" Cleanline bonzer EVO5

6'4" x 19 3/8" x 2 7/16" Cleanline bonzer EVO5  for Anthony... this is his high performance board so fingers crossed for some swell soon.

Demos at the ready…

A little sanding, a little artwork, speed coats, some microgrooves and these three demos will be ready for some aquatics… 

6’0 Porpoise EVO4 in clear and trans blue resin tint, Cleanline 6’4” EVO5 in clear (this one is for Anthony but he says he’ll let people borrow it), Cleanline 6’10” EVO5 in amber tint…

busy week…

3 boards going through at the moment… Demo 6’0” Porpoise EVO4 , Anthony’s 6’4” Cleanline EVO5 (in clear!), and a Demo 6’10” Cleanline EVO5… all due for completion next Friday… pray for surf.

Clear Cleanline high performance bonzer EVO5

Ok I know this is a first – a clear board from me! This is test-pilot Anthony's new board. He wanted a shorter high performance version of his 5 fin 6’10 Cleanline… here it is... 6’4” x 19 1/4” x 2 3/8”. Clear glass on fins on this one too…

 

McCoy nugget single fins

Still the best barrel riders in my opinion – here’s me tucking under a curtain at Lighthouse, somewhere in the Caribbean. I love their neutrality and ability to hold an unbelievably high and tight line… not a bonzer but what led me to them… definitely going to drag this one out of the bag next time we get a hollow high tide session at Connies… perhaps even at “Scalps”…

6’10” Cleanline bonzer EVO5

New semi-gun demo coming soon… 6’10” x 20 1/2” x 2 3/4” 5 fin

 

Demo boards coming soon

6’0” x 22” x 2 5/8” Porpoise EVO4 bonzer quad and 6’10” x 20” x 2 3/4” Cleanline EVO5 bonzer