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.

   

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

  

FreakFish thaws the frozen North…

Peter Strachen carving on his 5’10 FreakFish EVO6 bonzer (wood parabolic collaboration board with Glass Tiger) somewhere up in the Frozen North…

   

Here’s what he had to say: “Hi guys a couple of pics of the FreakFish in action today. This was just before dark it was bigger in the morning and it was still handling the drops well. It didn't rise above 0 degrees all day, so it was cold sessions but only five out in the morning, two and then all alone in the afternoon. The board is going great, it is now my everyday board of choice. I was going to take the Cleanline in this morning, it was pumping, but it was at home and I was interested to see how Le Freak would go. Feel free to put the photos on your blogs but only as the "frozen north". Cheesy grin. Pete”.

Oh and whilst we are on the subject of Pete’s FreakFish there were some more pictures of it on that great online surf mag, Drift… an article all by Mark about his 2010 and what 2011 might hold for his beautiful wood boards.

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These were the branding irons hotting up ready to fire-up Pete's Freak Fish collaboration with Glass Tiger... photo by Mark...

fREAKfISH… wooden EVO6 bonzer gets stained…

Just a little wood staining to finish off Pete’s FreakFish EVO6 bonzer 5’11”. Now back with Mark of Glass Tiger for the final varnish and fin- glossing before it heads up to Scotland for some real juice.

FreakFish EVO6 bonzer gets woody..

Ready for burn pen, stains and varnish before it heads north for some Scottish juice. Great work by Mark at Glass Tiger on the construction as always…