Springtime

Springtime, the roundup's are comin up, Soto and C. Malloy get ready to cut the calfs out.

Andi ( Mr. Miller's better half ) was raised on a big cattle ranch in Australia and a former roper champ. First time I met Andi we went on a ride , a first date with Matt and when we were done Matt asked me what I thought , I said you should drive to Vegas right now, they been together ever since.

Graham Goodfield from Los Padres Outfitters and Chris Malloy setting up for a head and heal.

2 surfin cowboys Pete and Matt. Pete also a great polo player and runs Vinos Vaqueros which does wine rides up in Santa Ynez valley Matt doing what he does best , pinchin tecates from MY cooler. These shots are from a few years back just a small roundup at Rancho Grande. This was a dry year , gonna be nice and green this year with all the rain .

Trevor Gordon Shots

A few shots of Trevor by Mike Kew on a 7' Liddle Death board , looks like a slight down shift here.

Trimed up just right, thanks Kew for those , Mike also has a nice story in the new TSJ, check it out.

4 Fer Sail

R to L a 7'4'' Baby , 6'8'' Death board 6'6'' GN and a 6'4'' Burrito, the last 3 are going to Thalia surf shop.

Sacred Craft Santa Cruz

Sacred Craft pics , this Andreini balsa gun was a show favorite.

I like Gene Coppers new speed shape, thin rails and a hull into a chine concave tail , old but new.

Nice.

The man , Doug Haut , Craftsman, Stylemaster and all around good guy, the tribute to Doug came out really nice , Santa Cruz, Rich Novack and Wingnut did a nice job putting this together.

Brian , rappin down about the Gee Bee model.

Marc's gun , the burl wood nose block and fin were so sweet.

The gun up top and Rich Novack's Hotcurl on the bottom, Marc milled and glued up the hotcurl from a old redwood water tank and Jeff Canham did the letters , Rich's name in hawaiian. This one was just varnished, no glass.

Andreini with a bonzer a guy brought by that he shaped in 75 or 76 . I remembered working on this board on the bottom before it was glossed I india inked Campbell brothers bonzer design on the bottom and I mispelled DESIGN, Marc's brother Pete said hey KP watch out what you take credit for ! funny .

Josh's, Anderson slide and glide was a close 2nd for best in show.

Fun show and a nice job by the Santa Cruz guys .

8'0'' Liddle 80's copy

Paul ordered a kinda copy of an old 8'0'' Liddle he found used from around the 80's

I made a template off the old one and sent it to Greg , but told him to foil it like most of the new boards.

Here is the original .

This boards came out so nice , looks like the boards from 1968 World contest. I laid it next to my PHD 68 PR and the curves are the same.

Mild rolled V and nice even rocker, that nice curve in the back hip works so good backside, fun project.

3RD TIMES A CHARM?

3rd time in for a rebuild on the Fatbastard, it was the 1rst Velo template Greg did for Hadley at 6'0'' .

n. 19 w. 22.50 t. 19

Patched and Bondo flush, also Steve put in a set of LocBox so he could try it as a twin keel. The board really changed as a twin it sat lower in the water and rolled up on rail so different than as a singlefin. It was a good experiment, now Im lookin for some LocBox Bonzer fins to try as siderunners.

A funny sidenote Greg and Hadley and myself were trading info and emails when this board was just a thought, then Steve called one day and says Im ready to order it, so I call Greg and say go ahead , Greg just says , it's DONE and on the way Im sick of talkin about that thing I just went out and made it. I call Steve and tell him it's done already be here in 4 days , WHAT? we got a good chuckel from that .

Gonna see if somebody has some sidebites for LocBox that might work up at Sacred Craft.

GG Baby Surfboard Influence

Baby influenced surfboards I have , bottom to top a Miget Farelley stringerless from Aus. , next is a John Price Surfboards Hawaii V- bottom, and a Andreini #1 Vaquero, a Balsa Vaquero and a Liddle V- bottom.

I think that when Mctavish rode Baby with Greenough it really started his wheels turning and helped kick start the shortboard revolution, along with what Brewer was doing in Hawaii.

Some of the first V'bottoms were way crude here in the states , bad rocker , thicktails, and plastic fins. Over the years some of the better ones I have seen are G&S Skip Fryes, Yaters, Surfboards Hawaii and Morey/Pope Mctavish Trackers.

I love that part in the movie Fantastic Plastic Machine when Mctavish is explaining what the V- bottoms are all about to Skip and Munoz, a real turning point in surfboard history.