Sometimes we get asked to make a custom watercraft that requires a little special engineering and often a special glue up. We are of the mind that no task is to hard for us. Sometimes it just takes a little thought. It’s not like we are building the wing to the space shuttle or is it? [...]
We recently made a trip to Maine to see one of our distributors and friend Ron from Kennebunk Surf and Skate. We went up to judge a retro contest they were having. During the trip there we were interested in some of the signs you saw but would never see them in Virginia. Hence the [...]
Moose, a welder by trade, made this rack to carry his Austin to the beach using his favorite mode of transportation his Harley. Who needs a Mule when you have a Moose!
We are finally in our new shop in Chesapeake and things have settled down. Everything is back on track and we are working at about a 5 week turn around on longboards and about a 3 week turn around on shortboards. Rich Kanski decided to leave Fibercraft and come work for us so we now [...]
Final picture after gloss and polish. The illusion of the folds in the cloth came out quite nice. We were please.
The final step before glossing is to add the final black details. These were added using a vinyl stencil with black posca pin.
How would you like to sand all the edges like this? Its a job that sucks but Joe does a great job at it.
It’s starting to come together. White down now a crap ton of sanding to clean everything up.
