what to expect

The Coconut Fish is a prime example of the type of board that will be on display at The Wooden Boards Day on the Gold Coast, Sweet, Mike C.

oh coco

Coco has landed safely back at the factory, She is a beautiful thing, Micro*

mission complete

Roger's Chambered Wooden Speed Dialers, Coconut Twin Keel, Son of the Sea Creature and The Flexfish 5 were big hits at The 2010 Fish Fry in Currumbin this weekend just gone, This is one of a hundred or so images from the day, From top left is Grant 'Big Fish' Newby Event Organiser, Rich Pavel American Shaper, Roger and Bob McTavish Australian Shaper and Surfing Legend, The day was awesome, Caught up with lots of people, Sage Joske, Brett Caller, Jamie McClellan, DMS and more, I will post more images from the day soon, Micro*

fine

Towie fine sanding on of The Chambered Wooden Speed Dialers, Getting it all set for The Fish Fry 2010 in AU on Sunday, Micro*

collector

With the glassing of the latest batch of Chambered Wooden Speed Dialers well underway the colours of all the species are starting to come out, Even with the first stage of glassing complete the timbers look awesome, The gloss polish will make them POP !, Micro*

water tight

And the glassing begins, The MATTador glassing up one of the Chambered Wooden Speed Dialers, Micro*

quadratic equation

Two Chambered Wooden Speed Dialer Quads, Fully Dialed, ready for The MATTador to seal the deal, Micro*

long weekend

Two days of wood chips and dust, A few more images of Roger working on The Chambered Wooden Speed Dialers, This is the one that was finished yesterday, Micro*, PS Here are some details (board in foreground of images) Speed Dialer, 5'11" x 21-3/4'' x 2-7/8'', Centre beam is Agave, Central lattice beams are Paulownia, Redwood, Pine, Outer lattice beams are Agave and Cabbage Tree, All other beams are a combo of Redwood, Balsa and Paulownia, (board in background) Speed Dialer, 5'11" x 21'' x 2-7/8'', Centre beam is Redwood and Paulownia, Outer lattice beams are Agave and Cabbage Tree, Rail beams are Redwood, Pine and Purple Heart, Oregon and Mahogany, All other beams are Paulownia, Redwood and Balsa, PHEW !

the weekend of wood

Roger has completed 'The Weekend of Wood', One fully shaped Chambered Wooden Speed Dialer, (top pic) Roger putting in the chines and (bottom pic) rolling the rails, Next step is glassing so it will be handed over to The MATTador for water tightening, Well done mate, A very good weekends work !, Micro*

wood class

The weekend of wood is well underway, Roger is flat out shaping up two Chambered Wooden Speed Dialers to showcase at The Fish Fry in Currumbin AU in two weeks, YEW, Micro*

working with wood

Roger likes wood, Micro*

good boy

The two Chambered Wooden Speed Dialers in the background wait patiently for Roger to finish yet another custom order, Micro*

coconut KEEL

Roger has fully glued up, Split and sanded the beams for the Chambered Coconut Twin Keel, The species in between the coconut is Balsa, Micro*

he a cocoNUT

Roger is part way through the glue up of the central beams of the Chambered Coconut Wooden Twin Keel, This is destined for The Fish Fry in AU in march, Micro*

light years ahead

Another glue up for the Wooden Boards project, The man is light years ahead, Everytime I visit the factory Roger has more wood combinations glued up, Sick, In a good way, Micro*

grubby mits

I bet seeing as I have not been at the Surfline Surfboards factory for a couple of days that Roger has been sneakily working away on the Wooden Boards project, I know he will not have been able to keep his grubby mits of them, Micro*

pixels of grain

The Wooden Boards project is underway again, Two Speed Dialers and a 70's Twin Keel, It's a sickness, Micro* PS Kiwi i will find out the KG rating ASAP

no stopping the man

Roger with two Chambered Wooden Speed Dialers planshaped with the deck roll put in and ready for profiling the rocker, Micro* PS More KIWI fodder !