May 17, 2012

May 9, 2012

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?...

May 7, 2012

April 27, 2012

FRUITS



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

PITCHING

Go with the flow...






















April 19, 2012

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...

April 18, 2012

April 13, 2012

April 11, 2012

April 9, 2012

RIP


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

April 8, 2012

SQUARE


What a beautiful, minimal piece of design...

April 5, 2012

April 3, 2012

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...

April 2, 2012

March 31, 2012

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...

March 23, 2012

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...

March 21, 2012

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?



March 18, 2012

KING







The Godfather of surfing...

March 17, 2012

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...

March 16, 2012

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...

March 15, 2012

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...