Finished up a bunch of handplanes...

Over the weekend  including the new models.   They'll be at the Art of Surfing Festival this weekend at the Music Pier in OCNJ.   They all feature water based finish that sets up water tight and also have blind nuts epoxied into the board for a strong adjustable hand strap set up. 

 

New handplane models...

So did some creative alchemy with our templates and came up with two new designs...

The first is a our mini-fish shore break hand plane stretched and chunked out a bit   the boards are reclaimed mahogany, paulownia with black walnut and western red cedar, and stained and painted paulownia, .Has some decent entry rocker and some healthy concave for lift

Ladies and gentleman boys and girls may I introduce to you    El Whopper and for those lost in the bilingual portion it translates to the whopper.  It was a combination of our big fish and the hand grip models.   El Whopper features a tapered hand hold, a good amount of rocker for transitioning down the wave  a single concave starting in front of the hole to help hide the hand that ends with a double concave out the tail.  It is made of atlantic white cedar, royal paulownia, and black walnut.   It is finished with boiled linseed oil...Oh yeah dimensions are tad over 19" by 9+"x 7/8"

New Handplanes finished up

Finished these three earlier this week.  The two big fish models are made of Royal Paulownia and have a concave for lift.  The shorebreak fish is atlantic white cedar with an off set eastern red cedar stringer and mild rocker and flat bottom for surfing larger surf or shorebreak where you don't need a lot of planing surface.  All three have brass blind nuts epoxied in for a strong adjustable strap system.  These wiil be making there way onto etsy over the next couple of weeks.   Or just give a hollar.