Ari, Ben and Derek started working on Friday to get a jump on the weekend. Ben had flown in that day from Daytona Beach for the weekend to join us. This will be his first board. He has a flight home on Sunday at 5:oopm so he had to get going!

They started skimming the board with the planers to get the glue residue off the blank.


Go-Pro cameras are pretty popular right now and Ari was right there with his new toy. We hope to post a few videos of all the action.

Friday was hot but everyone was in good spirits for the event!
Once the boards have been cleaned of all the manufacturing residue we were ready to lay out the outline. Here we used a 1/4 template I had saved from an older longboard.

With a hand saw and a little bit of WD-40 we started cutting the outlines.