“This little film is about my husband’s surfboards. Steve Pendarvis has been building boards since the late 60s and has boundless creativity. He has been fascinated with building flex tail boards for many years. Our friend Bill Harris and I made this film about Steve and his boards. The film was shot at San Diego beaches and at Steve’s shaping room workshop.” – Cher Pendarvis
Quality Peoples
Deus ex Machina + Chris Garrett
Vignette No. 1 – Chris Garrett from Deus ex Machina on Vimeo.
‘What do I want to do when I retire? Just keep surfing. What do I want to do when I retire? Just keep shaping.’
Brown Microwave Television
Alex Knost in the shaping room by Jack Coleman. nice vintage vibe.
Surfboards 1969
These photos are from balsa bill first sales book when he went to work as a rep. for G & S in 1969. This was the transition era. They were making short boards from long board blanks.
The average board size coming out of the factory in the spring of ’69 was 7’2″
Honesty
“I feel that this is one of the most honest boards I’ve ever done. By honest I mean I did exactly what I felt like doing. No holding back. From shape to brush stroke and it was all a surprise” – Joey Clams
Bill Pressly documentary
Bill Pressly Hand Shaped Surfboards from Thomas C. Webb on Vimeo.
Bill makes his boards and resides in Western North Carolina. You can find him there six months out of the year. The other six months he packs up his Shadow Cruiser and heads south to where the surf is good.
For more information about Bill check out his blog
Joe Bauguess talks Mini-Simmons
Joe Bauguess talks about the processing leading up to his invention of the Mini-Simmons. This is the stuff of legends.
(via The Alley Fish Fry)
Tzahui in the shaping room
QPeeps Mexico homie Tzahui Poe in the shaping room.
This morning on my way to the “office”, I dropped in on Tzahui glassing some plywood twin keel fins he had just foiled for Isra. Tzahui is shaping boards under the tutelage of legendary shaper Rick James. Tzahui has a surf school and boat charter shop in Punta Mita called Mictlan Surf.