ATTITUDE

ANGEL

REST IN PEACE

What a wonderful man...  We lost one of our cultures true craftsman this past weekend, he will be missed by many... Travel well my friend... And thanks to TW for the photo poach...

YOUNG GUNS

Two young bucks when it was the wild west, a blank canvas and the world really wasn't watching... A smallish, worldwide group were the front of the pack that became a culture... 1990?...

REST IN PEACE

FRUITS

Shop is up and running... Let the chips fall where they may...

PITCHING

Go with the flow...

ALL WORTH IT

Well the new shop is ready to go... I have done my thing...

GETTING CLOSE

Just a few hours until the future of S/Double in Japan...

SOON COME

Tomorrow is the opening of my little tokyo surfboard gallery, I am buttoning up the whole situation as I write this sentence... Stoked with the feeling the space is starting to embrace...

CLEAN LINES

OLD SCHOOL

DANCE

RIP

Sometimes he looked like Jimi to me, you feeling me on this?...

SQUARE

What a beautiful, minimal piece of design...

TRUCKIN'

TOKYO BOUND

Boxed up and on it's way, 22 surfboards left yesterday for Tokyo shop opening, this is the rest of the stuff... Stoked so far with the way things are shaping up...

PULL IN

ALL GOOD

TRAVELING

Just got back to Santa Barbara from the east coast, please excuse the lag on the blog front... Hit New York and Boston on a spring break loop with my oldest son... Checked out colleges, how did that come up so quick I ask?.. Anyway, putting the last of the puzzle together for the Tokyo joint that will open in a few weeks, looking sick...

TOKYO CALLING

Hope to see you all if you are in Tokyo... Party on, Garth...

FINISHING TOUCHES

Kicking it hard to get ready for the opening of my S/Double surfboard showroom in Tokyo next month... I will keep you tuned as the date approaches...

SINGLE

A fresh "swingin' single" from the glasshop with a new fin template I did just for this series... Hand foiled by Chuck Ames here in the Santa Barbara area... Those are a couple of "fish and chip" models hanging in the back...

YOU TALKIN' TO ME?

KING

The Godfather of surfing...

TOKYO SLEDS

Almost done with the sticks for the new S/Double boardshop I am opening next month in Tokyo... Every board 100% handshaped by me in the Santa Barbara studio... I figure by the amount of time each one takes I am clearing about 10 cents an hour, but could not be happier... We don't need no stinking computers... I will tune you in more on the opening as it gets closer to the date...

GREY SCALE

Four quad nuggets in the scale of grey ready for the trip to the glassshop... Just sprayed the rails and the paper is still on both sides...

SWINGIN' SINGLES

Stoked with these single fin neo-seventies things I have been shaping lately... Wide point forward, pulled tails, solid old stussy style beaks up front and clean modern bottoms... These are just roughed blanks in the photos, but they finished up really nice... Think Owl Chapman or Terry Fitz with knees bowed and arms in just the right relaxed position...