Tim Stamps is the true new breed of surfboard builder who uses computer technology and machines to create the various shapes found on the surfboard market today. Some board builders take issue with it as shaping, but to Tim who has a high level of computer and designing skills from his background at college, it’s [...]

In the early seventies, a young surfer named Larry Allison took a job jig sawing fins behind San Pedro Surf and sport. Little would he know, almost  forty years later, he would be one of the last truly American fin manufactures, working out of the same shop with the same people. [...]

Trevor Tanner from the Bolshoi with his new celtic rock band Rathkeltair

There are hundreds of surfers in the world who build surfboards with varying degree of quality. Roger Hinds is a surfboard builder of the old school. The school where you learned how to do every aspect of building a board and could put it all together to create a functional work of art. [...]

The Bolshoi: Sunday Morning. One of the great songs of the eighties and a band with more influence than fame. Former Front man Trevor Tanner now sings with the Celtic Rock band Rathkeltaír. Good times.

There are many surf board builders in the world with varying degrees of talent and attitude. Some have international credentials, some have local credentials and others just love to shape as a hobby. To some it’s a business and others a love. In the case of Allan Gibbons you have a board builder [...]

When looking over the long search about the meaning of life, seen through the eyes of a man who can compose music, write poetry or give a reading of his words that will leave you wanting to look at things beyond the pale. All inquiries of such an artist, musician, and writer will ultimately [...]

James Robertson has certainly earned his stripes in the California surf industry the last eighteen years. A gifted surfer and representative for the Lokbox fin company, he is also well known as a great ding repair person and all around craftsman. If you frequent any of he major surf related forums, chances are [...]

With many surfers tiring of expensive mass produced surfboards, there is another revival brewing in the undercurrent with surfers who want to learn the craft of hand shaping their own surfboards.  Among these are a new breed of young surfer, who are putting forth the effort and learning all the aspects of making their own [...]

In the mid seventies surfing and skateboarding were becoming very popular sports in the Pensacola Florida area and spawning it’s own early movements much like the movement’s in other towns around the world. When you look at documentaries like, ” Dogtown and Z boys, ” those unfamiliar with that era might assume all [...]