Five waves on three continents

Wood, wood, wood...

Pure Joy

Central America November 2008

These are the best travel partners I could ask for...

Lars and the 42 Crew

From the Big Issue

Hey, I think there's a longboard in here!

The San Francisco Gallery Opening

Check out the top listing: 42 Surfboards. Right above Ford, Herman Miller, Chrysler, etc...

Work from Sean Davey

Here are a few links to some of Sean Davey's work. His site is definitely worth checking out!

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Work from Roy Henry Vickers

To me, Mr. Vickers' work sums up the Pacific Northwest so perfectly.

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Work from Pamela Neswald

Woman night surfing
Metaphor for life

I think these are great. You can see more of her work here.

Some art is surf-inspired. Some surfboards are art-inspired.

May all our lives be surf and art inspired!

Lars and the 42 Crew

Boards, babies, and beer

Sneaking around Spain

Thailand - Friends at the bottom of the sea

Cousins...

6'3" Twin Keel Fish - SOLD

This is the Black Sun Fish in honor of Edward Abbey's book "Black Sun". Except for the shallow single concave bottom fading into a shallow double concave between the fins, this is the stereotypical retro fish. Ok, except it is 100% wood. These are not wood skinned boards. Not built from wood kits. These boards are built from our sitka spruce, milled, cut, glued, shaped and chambered with one thing in mind: you flying down the line on the coolest board you have ever set foot on.

Length: 6'3"
Nose: 16 3/4"
Width: 21 7/8"
Tail: 17 1/2"
Thickness: 2 1/2"
Fins: Snappy twin keels from 101 Fins. Hand-foiled in Bamboo
Bottom: shallow single concave fading into a shallow double concave out the tail
Logo: sustainably harvested blue abalone
Price: Boards like this one are $4500



Drop us a line at Lars@42surfboards.com if you want to talk about ordering one of the boards you see here or placing an order for something else.

6'1 Diamond Tail - SOLD

Are you ready for a head-turner? This board ought to do the trick. Start with the single glassed-on 9" George Greenough flex tip fin. That will get you looking at the tri-plane single concave that slides back into a double concave inside a single concave out the tail. Which will get you looking at the super-wide diamond tail. Which will make you realize that the nose is more pulled in than on your regular fish. Which will make you wonder... What would that be like?? Let them wonder.

Length: 6'1"
Nose: 16"
Width: 21 3/8"
Tail: 16 3/4"
Thickness: 2 1/2"
Fins: Glassed-on single George Greenough flex tip. Clear.
Bottom: tri-plane single concave sliding into a double concave inside a single concave out the tail
Logo: sustainably harvested natural abalone
Price: Boards like this one are $4500

Drop us a line at Lars@42surfboards.com if you want to talk about ordering one of the boards you see here or placing an order for something else.

Our Team

Folks have been asking for pictures of the nuts that are shaping their wood surfboards. Here are a couple.

Bjorn, Leif, Lars, Pelle, Victoria, Forrest, Yvette, and Melissa deep into a board meeting

Pelle, Leif, and Lars fishing on Moses Lake

Lars, Leif, Pelle, and Kassen in Getaria, Spain.

More fun on the water

Peeking into the shop

5'10 Fish - SOLD

Dimensions: 5'10, 21.5", 17", 17"
Core: Fully chambered and vented Oregon Sitka Spruce
Fins: Bamboo Twin Keels from 101 Fins
Glass: 6+6 Top, 6 Bottom, Resin Research Epoxy, sanded speed finish, logo in sustainably harvested abalone, blank and shape by 42. Glass by Cascade Performance Glassing.
Price: $4500.
Life is short. You are good. Ride a board that makes you proud.

5'11 Fish - SOLD

This board was just sold to Autodesk's new downtown San Francisco design gallery.

This fish was shaped from a single log of hemlock. The tree had grown on the coast of Oregon for over 150 years when it fell across our road in a giant storm last winter. We dried it for almost a year before shaping it. The grain waving across the whole deck of this 100% wood fish is just beautiful.

Length: 5'11"
Nose: 17 3/8"
Width: 21 7/8"
Tail: 17 1/2"
Thickness: 2 1/2"
Fins: Hand-foiled marine ply Larry Gephart keels from True Ames
Bottom: double concave
Logo: sustainably harvested teal abalone
Price: $4500

Drop us a line at Lars@42surfboards.com if you want to talk about ordering one of the boards you see here or placing an order for something else.

6'4 Fish - SOLD TO CANNON BEACH SURF SHOP

A classic fish.

This board can be seen at the Cannon Beach Surf Shop.

Length: 6'4"
Nose: coming
Width: 21 1/2"
Tail: coming
Thickness: 2 1/2"
Fins: Twin keels from 101 Fins. Bamboo.
Bottom: single concave sliding into a double concave out the tail
Logo: sustainably harvested blue abalone
Price: $4500
This board can be seen at the Cannon Beach Surf Shop. Stop by their shop or drop us a line at Lars@42surfboards.com if you want to talk about ordering one of the boards you see here or placing an order for something else.

Garrett Lisi's new fish

We build this board for Garret Lisi for those days when, after a morning of solving the mysteries of the universe, he needs a little extra glide to paddle into the wave and want to play around a little once he is on the face. Not quite a longboard day, but definitely conditions where a little extra glide is nice. With single into double concave, set up with the classic twin keels, and shaped in sitka spruce, this board is designed for a mellow day of flow and drive. And at the end of the wave, Garrett can kick out and get to enjoy the beauty of the sitka spruce's deep and natural grain. Simply beautiful.

Length: 6'10"
Nose: full
Width: 21 1/2"
Tail: wide
Thickness: 2 1/2"
Fins: Twin keels from 101 Fins. Hand-foiled by Marlin Bacon in Bamboo
Bottom: single concave fading into a double concave out the tail
Logo: sustainably harvested abalone in a piercing shade of hyper-intelligent blue
Price: $4500
Drop us a line at Lars@42surfboards.com if you want to talk about ordering a board like Garrett's or placing an order for something else.

5'11" Fish - SOLD TO GORGE PERFORMANCE

Are you looking for a board with more soul than a hunk of foam?

Are you looking for a board that represents something other than Chinese molding technology?

This board can be seen at Gorge Performance in Portland, Oregon.


Have you ever ridden anything where your stoke starts building as soon as you unzip your boardbag?

Here at 42 Surfboards, we are American surfers shaping wood surfboards. That's all we do. We shape boards that are beautiful, unique, and are than something you just surf on. Although we know that you will love surfing it.

42 Surfboards are hand-shaped from blanks that we build ourselves. Our blanks are as organic as they come and at 42, your surfboard blank isn’t going to kill anyone. Our blanks are built from sustainably harvested local wood and are chambered as radically as any in history.

This could be your new magic board. It is fast, loose, and slippery. At the same time, because it is wood instead of foam, it has the drive and carry of a much larger board. It is faster and more stable than anything in its size in foam. With low rocker and full rails, it will get you out the back easier, into waves earlier, and mach'ing down the line towards yet another record length ride. In other words, our goal is for you to make long fast waves.

Like all 42 Surfboards, you will will notice how your Twin Keel builds and holds speed. With the low rocker and single concave bottom, this board will be among the fastest in the water in anything from double ankle to double overhead plus. With the 100% organic core, an illustrious Resin Research crystal clear epoxy finish, and heart-stopping abalone inlays, your Fish is certain to be the most beautiful board on the beach.

Length: 5'11"
Nose: coming
Width: 21 1/2"
Tail: coming
Thickness: 2 1/2"
Fins: Twin Keels from 101 Fins. Hand-foiled in Bamboo
Bottom: single concave fading out the tail
Logo: sustainably harvested natural abalone


This board can be seen at Gorge Performance in Portland, Oregon. You can either stop by their shop or drop us a line at Lars@42surfboards.com if you want to talk about ordering one of the boards you see here or placing an order for something else.

Life is good!

Wood is the goods

Pipline on a chambered ten-footer - Surfer Magazine - May 2008

All wood, all the time.

Travel well!

Northern Oregon

San Sebastian

Pacific Northwest

Basque Highway

Mundaka

Getaria

France

Sustainably harvested abalone inlays

Funky Fins From the Future

Bamboo canard quads from 101 Fins on a 7'3" rounded pin shaped in sitka spruce


9.0" George Greenough Flex Tip from True Ames on a 6'1" diamond tail shaped in sitka spruce


Big hand foiled Larry Gephart keels on a 5'11" fish shaped from a single log of hemlock


Bamboo keels from 101 fins on a 6'3" fish shaped in sitka spruce


Bamboo reverse canard quads(aka "Twinzer-On-Steroids" or "Snaggle-tooth") from 101 Fins on a 6' diamond tail shaped in sitka spruce


Bamboo center and four side-runners from 101 Fins on a 6'3 round tail shaped in sitka spruce

The new bus

An official request has been put in: this is what we want for our new delivery wagon!
The new Verdier/Westfalia is solar/hybrid/turbo diesel and very cool. I am pretty sure we can stick a couple boards down the middle and we won't even need a rack!

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Basque Country

Eight fins, split two ways

6'3" five fin bonzer, white fir, bamboo fins from 101 Fins, Abalone logo, SOLD $4500

6'10" three fin bonzer, red fir, bamboo fins from 101 Fins, Abalone logo, SOLD $4500

Red Fir, White Fir, Bamboo, and Abalone

6'3" five fin bonzer, white fir, bamboo fins from 101 Fins, Abalone logo, SOLD $4500

6'10" three fin bonzer, red fir, bamboo fins from 101 Fins, Abalone logo, SOLD $4500

Five fin, four fin, three fin, twin fin, single fin....

Fish and pintails and diamond tails and longboards and...

Come on in...

Turning wood into surfboards

A few random woodchips from our little shop

South of the Border

Here are a couple shots sent to us from future clients. Charley is an old friend and an excellent ceramic artist. This shot is from near his home in Mexico.

Doug is a new acquaintance, a writer who has moved his family up from California. These shots are from near his house in a different part of Mexico. The board Doug is riding is a 6'8" North Pacific foam fish shaped for him by Art Collier, another friend who sometimes helps us with our glassing. My prediction: both of these guys will be riding wood longboards before the year is out.

Stokes' Longboard

Stokes is an old friend and he has been waiting for this board for a long long time. Patience though, can lead to a good thing and in this case it definitely has. Stokes' new board is a chambered 9'3, the second we have done in white fir and red cedar. The combination is astounding and the weight feels perfect. This board is going to fly down the line for decades.

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Eric K's new longboard

A 9'3 in white fir, red cedar, and sustainably harvested abalone. This one is destined for sunny glassy days on long smooth California point breaks. These are $4500 and there are not currently any in the rack. We are building a couple right now though so check with us again in 6-8 weeks.

This is what we do

Our clients are the best

I got this shot from Claus the other day. He is a South African transplant living right up the road in British Columbia. He has been looking for a board with a bit more paddle power than his current 9'1, something that reminded him of his original John Whitmore.



The board that he is riding in this shot from the mid-sixties was shaped from one of the first batches of Clark foam to reach Cape Town. The photographer was a friend named Peter Roberts. Water temp around 52 degrees - no wetsuit - "but hey it was the first time I had an opportunity to ride my new board".

Claus normally surfs in South Africa or spots like Carlsbad or La Jolla. These days he says "I am happy in the small beach breaks – in the 1960s 70s in Cape Town I was happy on the bigger point breaks and reefs around the Cape. I was with one of the first parties to ever surf Jeffrey’s Bay. I did on one the earliest Clarke foam blanks to enter South Africa at the time a few months after the premier of Endless Summer. I still have the original poster from the Endless Summer here on my basement wall. So I guess I’m a real old timer."

When Claus found 42 Surfboards' chambered wood longboards, he was stoked. Now he is going to pay us a visit this spring once we get moved into the new shop. If he's lucky, there will be a longboard in the rack that looks just perfect. If not, he'll have to order one just like everybody else.

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The travel bug

Here we are in the middle of winter and all I can think about is summer travel. Here are some pictures from our last trip to France and Spain. Do you recognize any of these landmarks?

Do you ever find yourself thinking about past trips and wanting to be back there so bad you can taste it?

Hawaii in two weeks though. That will take the edge off and let me concentrate on the work at hand.

2007 was good. Very good.

Grant sent these up today from Down Under where he is putting on The Alley Fish Fry. And if I wasn't desperate to get down there for it before, I certainly am now!

Meanwhile, up here in the Northern Hemisphere, it stopped snowing at 4 am with 18 inches of new snow in the last 24 hours, 20 inches in the 24 hours before that, and 14 in the 24 hours before that. And then the sun came out!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!

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Busy living

All over the world, surfboard production slows according to conditions. We, as an industry, could be used as a global conditions barometer.
Here at 42 Surfboards, we are no different. In fact, if anything, we are even more vulnerable to it than most. At most shops, the staff only disappears when the surf is good. And believe me, I am the first out the door when the surf is good. And I am not alone - we lose our entire glass shop every winter to Mexico and points south!
The surf is only the beginning though!

Forrest is Jonesing when the water in the rivers is up (kayaking). Or when the dirt on the trails is that perfect humidity on the spectrum from ball-bearings slick dust to bike-eating muck (mountain biking).
Frank is out racing his cars around as soon as the sun is shining and the track is dry (Ferrari, Cobra, M3, Austin Healy, Lotus, etc...).
And I am no better than the rest. I am constantly watching the weather. If the swell is up and the period is long, I want to surf. No excuses. If the wind is up, I want to sail the catamaran. Or go windsurfing. Or kiteboarding. I just want to ride waves! I don't really care how.
The problem is, what conditions does that leave? Man, if we didn't enjoy building wood surfboards so much, no work would ever get done.

Today, Mark's board had to wait. One board, a 6'3 five-fin Bonzer for Maui, got sanded and the rest of the day went to carving turns on frozen water.

Look at what we have to deal with up here! This is for Mount Hood, 35 minutes from our shop:

Tonight: Periods of snow. Low around 21. Windy, with a west southwest wind between 24 and 31 mph, with gusts as high as 37 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. Total nighttime snow accumulation of 10 to 14 inches possible.

Monday: Periods of snow showers. High near 21. Breezy, with a southwest wind between 14 and 24 mph, with gusts as high as 31 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New snow accumulation of 3 to 5 inches possible.

Monday Night: Snow likely. Cloudy, with a low around 22. Windy, with a south wind 14 to 17 mph becoming southwest between 29 and 32 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New snow accumulation of 7 to 11 inches possible.

Tuesday: Periods of snow. High near 26. Windy, with a west southwest wind 41 to 44 mph decreasing to between 16 and 19 mph. Winds could gust as high as 55 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%.

Tuesday Night: Periods of snow showers. Low around 21. West wind 8 to 16 mph becoming south. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%.

Wednesday: Periods of snow. High near 21. Windy. Chance of precipitation is 80%.
When are we every going to get any work done? Luckily Mark confirmed his board today, and we will, in fact, get it finished at some point during the next week/four feet of snow!

Not tonight though - tonight went to mounting up my new skis, a pair of Salomon Gun 188's. So stoked.





Play hard!

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A mega-fish for Joey

Dimensions: 8'3 x 21.5"
Core: Fully chambered and vented White Fir
Fins: Bamboo Canard Quads from 101 Fins
Glass: 6+6 Top, 6 Bottom, Resin Research Epoxy, sanded speed finish, logo in sustainably harvested abalone, blank and shape by 42. Glass by Cascade Performance Glassing.
Price: $4500 - SOLD
Life is short. You are good. Ride a board that makes you proud.

A big fish for Terry

Dimensions: 6'8, 21.5", 16 3/8", 17"


Core: Fully chambered and vented Oregon Douglas Fir


Fins: Twin Keels in Marine Ply from Larry Gephardt

Glass: 6+6 Top, 6 Bottom, Resin Research Epoxy, sanded speed finish, logo in sustainably harvested teal abalone, blank and shape by 42. Glass by Cascade Performance Glassing. This is a really beautiful board.

Price: $4500.
Speed. Beauty. Organic. Need I go on?
Here at 42 Surfboards, we are American surfers shaping wood surfboards. That's all we do. We’d like to shape you a board that is beautiful, unique, and is more than something you just surf on. Although we know that you will love surfing it.


Life is short. You are good. Ride a board that makes you proud.

Custom 8'5 rounded pin for Jim

This is Jim's second board of the week. And he already has another one on the wish list...



Keep in mind that beauty isn't everything! Our goal is for your 42 Surfboard to be the easiest surfboard on the environment. At 42 Surfboards, the environment comes first. It just doesn’t matter how groovy your van is or how bushy your beard is, if you are going through boards as fast as some of our friends are going through their sticks of foam, you’re just not walking the walk. At 42 Surfboards we are building boards that you will be able to pass on to your grandchildren. If you’re ready to give them up at that point.

Here at 42 Surfboards, we’d like to give you something that is really hard to find these days. We’d like to give you a wood surfboard hand-shaped by American surfers. We’d like to give you a board that is beautiful, unique, and is more than something you just surf on. Although we know that you will love surfing it.

42 Surfboards are hand-shaped from blanks that we build ourselves. Our blanks are as organic as they come and at 42, your surfboard blank isn’t going to kill anyone. Our blanks are built from sustainably harvested wood and are chambered as radically as any in history. This gives you a remarkably beautiful and strong surfboard that, with a little love and a little luck, will last you the rest of your life.

Everybody has had a magic surfboard. Given the right day, there is a good chance that this will be Jim's magic board.

At 42 Surfboards, disposable boards just aren’t going to cut it anymore. Nor are toxic boards made from the same old poisonous soup that has been used since the early ‘60s. By hand-shaping local wood into beautiful high performance surfboards, our goal is to change the very paradigm of choosing a surfboard. Instead of choosing the quick and easy, the cheap and sleazy, the pop-out molded spray-painted cookie cutter foam toy, we want you to think a little. Think about the long-term cost. The environmental cost. The aesthetic cost. The social cost. And then go with the choice that is simply better by nature.

Dimensions: 8'5", 21.5"

Core: Beautiful white fir and western red cedar. Fully chambered and vented.

Fins: Bamboo canard quads magically foiled by Marlin at 101 Fins
Glass: 6+6 Top, 6 Bottom, Resin Research Epoxy, sanded speed finish, logo in sustainably harvested abalone, blank and shape by 42. Glass by Gary and Fred at Cascade.

Price: $4500

In the shaping bay: Longboards and Diamond Tails.
At the glasser: Longboards.
Board prices: $4500 for 8'-10'
In the water: Tomorrow is supposed to be epic. 16 feet at 16 seconds. A long backside point. I love my home!

Thoughts: Happy Thanksgiving!

Life is short. You are good. Ride a board that makes you proud.

More wood to come....

Quads being sanded

Dimensions: 8'3 and 8'5, right around 21.5" wide
Core: The Fish is White Fir. The Round Tail is White Fir and Western Red Cedar. Both boards are fully chambered and vented
Fins: Both of these boards are set up with canard quads in bamboo from 101 Fins

Glass: 6+6 Top, 6 Bottom, Resin Research Epoxy, sanded speed finish, logo in sustainably harvested abalone, blank and shape by 42. Glass by Cascade Performance Glassing.
Price: $4500.

Either of these could have been your new magic board. Although we design our boards as retro shapes, our customers have been riding them as their daily drivers, their special step-up boards, and as their as their voodoo boards for when the juice really turns on.

Like all 42 Surfboards, these boards are shaped to build and hold speed. With the low rocker and single concave bottom, either of these boards will be among the fastest in the water. The Fish is shaped with knee-high to double overhead in mind. The 8'5 should be a scream in anything from chest high to triple overhead.
With the 100% organic core, an illustrious Resin Research crystal clear epoxy finish, and heart-stopping abalone inlays, a 42 Surfboard is always certain to be the most beautiful board on the beach.
Here at 42 Surfboards, we are American surfers shaping wood surfboards. That's all we do. We’d like to shape you a board that is beautiful, unique, and is more than something you just surf on. Although we know that you will love surfing it.
42 Surfboards are hand-shaped from blanks that we build ourselves. Our blanks are as organic as they come and at 42, your surfboard blank isn’t going to kill anyone. Our blanks are built from sustainably harvested local wood and are chambered as radically as any in history. This gives you a remarkably beautiful surfboard.

Drop us a line at Lars@42surfboards to get a board like one of these shipped to your house.

Custom fish for Chris

Chris originally bought a fish from 42 early this summer. Fedex ran a forklift through it and it took almost two months before we knew whether we were going to send Chris a check or a new board. Insurance stuff. In the mean time, Chris begged us to not send his money back and just keep his spot in line for another fish. This is where it gets tricky when you shape in wood. If we were building foam boards, I would have just chucked a blank up on the stands, shaped and glassed it and had a new one to him by the end of the month. Wood is different. Some of our boards take over six months between concept and completion!!
Chris' fish was built to his spec's but to our satisfaction. Like everything else we build, it will get him into waves early, give him a stable platform for traditional high speed carving, and hopefully be something that will stay in the family for a long time. Beautifully built in Coastal Oregon Sitka Spruce, it will be very fast in even the smallest surf, cruise well, and attract at least as much attention on the beach as it does in the water.
How do I know this? I have one myself.

I have surfed this shape in everything between knee-high and double overhead plus and it is fantastic!

Core: Sitka Spruce

Fins: Canard Quads from Marlin down at 101 Fins. Bamboo, of course.

Glass: 4+4 plus 4 oz patches Top, 4 Bottom, Resin Research Epoxy, sanded speed finish, logo in hand-cut sustainably harvested abalone, blank, shape and glass by 42. Finish coat by Cascade Performance Glassing. Finish sanding by 42.

Price: $4500

In the water: Cannon Beach on Friday, Hiking up on Mount Hood on Saturday.
Thoughts: I really enjoy making nice boards for nice people!

Life is short. You are good. Ride a board that makes you proud.

6'10 single fin

Dimensions: 6'10, 21.5", 15 1/2", 16 1/4"

Core: Fully chambered and vented Oregon Douglas Fir

Fins: I recommend the George Greenough 4A, a wicked flex-tip from True Ames
Glass: 6+6 Top, 6 Bottom, Resin Research Epoxy, sanded speed finish, logo in sustainably harvested abalone, blank and shape by 42. Glass by Cascade Performance Glassing.

Although we designed it as a retro single fin, our customers have been riding this shape as their step-up board, as their board for when the juice turns on. It will get you out the back easier, it will get you into waves earlier, and was designed for speed, speed, and more speed. In other words, our goal is for you to make long fast waves. Riding a flex tip in the single fin-box, you will only feel drive, flow, and carry until you shift your weight back, drop your front hand into the water, and crank into a long fast cutback. You'll be enjoying yourself until you realize that you just came out of the turn as fast as you went in!

Like all 42 Surfboards, you will will notice how your Single Fin builds and holds speed. With the low rocker and single concave bottom, this board will be among the fastest in the water in anything from chest high to double overhead plus. With the 100% organic core, an illustrious Resin Research crystal clear epoxy finish, and heart-stopping abalone inlays, your Single Fin is certain to be the most beautiful board on the beach.

Here at 42 Surfboards, we are American surfers shaping wood surfboards. That's all we do. We’d like to shape you a board that is beautiful, unique, and is more than something you just surf on. Although we know that you will love surfing it.

42 Surfboards are hand-shaped from blanks that we build ourselves. Our blanks are as organic as they come and at 42, your surfboard blank isn’t going to kill anyone. Our blanks are built from sustainably harvested local wood and are chambered as radically as any in history. This gives you a remarkably beautiful surfboard.

Everybody has had a magic surfboard. This one could have been yours!

Classic

Spruce and bamboo

Zoom

Custom longboard for Jamey

Jamey's 9'3" longboard was built to get him into waves early, give him a stable platform for traditional longboarding, and be something that his family could enjoy for a long time. Beautifully built in Eastern Oregon Poplar, it is very fast in even the smallest surf, noserides well, and attracts at least as much attention on the beach as it does in the water.

We have surfed this shape in everything between six inches and twenty feet and it is fantastic!

We shape every customer's board to fit their specific size and surfing style. However we fine tune it though, this speed glider will absorb chatter from chop on the face, carry speed across the flats, and will never bog out at the bottom like some of its foam cousins. With all of our boards you will notice how they build and hold speed. Riding a 42 Longboard is like accelerating a full-blown freight train. What you do with all that speed and power is up to you. With the 100% wood construction, this board will blow your mind with its drive, flow, and speed in the water. With the 100% organic core, beautiful finish, and heart-stopping abalone inlays, it shouldn't surprise you that your 42 Longboard’s timeless beauty is going to stop beach-goers in their tracks.

Keep in mind that beauty isn't everything though! Your 42 Surfboard is always likely to be the easiest surfboard on the environment. At 42 Surfboards, the environment comes first. It just doesn’t matter how groovy your van is or how bushy your beard is, if you are going through boards as fast as some of our friends are going through their sticks of foam, you’re just not walking the walk. At 42 Surfboards we are building boards that you will be able to pass on to your grandchildren. If you’re ready to give them up at that point.

Here at 42 Surfboards, we’d like to give you something that is really hard to find these days. We’d like to give you a wood surfboard hand-shaped by American surfers. We’d like to give you a board that will last you the rest of your life. We’d like to give you a board that is beautiful, unique, and is more than something you just surf on. Although we know that you will love surfing it.

42 Surfboards are hand-shaped from blanks that we build ourselves. Our blanks are as organic as they come and at 42, your surfboard blank isn’t going to kill anyone. Instead, it is directly causing the preservation of coastal forest land while aggressively fighting global warming. Our blanks are built from sustainably harvested wood and are chambered as radically as any in history. This gives you a remarkably beautiful and strong surfboard that, with a little love and a little luck, will last you the rest of your life.

Everybody has had a magic surfboard. A board that was better than anything else they have ever ridden. If that had been a 42 Surfboard, it would still be around and you would still be riding it today!

At 42 Surfboards, disposable boards just aren’t going to cut it anymore. Nor are toxic boards made from the same old poisonous soup that has been used since the early ‘60s. By hand-shaping local wood into beautiful high performance surfboards, our goal is to change the very paradigm of choosing a surfboard. Instead of choosing the quick and easy, the cheap and sleazy, the pop-out molded spray-painted cookie cutter foam toy, we want you to think a little. Think about the long-term cost. The environmental cost. The aesthetic cost. The social cost. And then go with the choice that is simply better by nature.

Dimensions: 9'3", 18 3/4"N, 23 1/8", 13 3/4"T

Core: Eastern Oregon Poplar

Fin: Josh Farbarow large-based 9.5" Flex Fin by True Ames Fin Co.

Glass: 6+4 Top, 6 Bottom, Resin Research Epoxy, sanded speed finish, logo in sustainably harvested abalone, blank, shape and glass by 42. Beautiful.

Price: SOLD

In the water: Cannon Beach on Thursday, Malibu on Friday, Cardiff on Saturday, drove home yesterday.
Thoughts: After spending the weekend in Southern California I remembered. Our boards are really different than what you usually see in the beach. Every time I opened the door to the van, people came running over to see what they were all about. The line for boards just gets longer but everybody seems really mellow about it. Thanks a lot for that!

Life is short. You are good. Ride a board that makes you proud.

More wood to come....

Custom longboard for Justin

Justins 9'3" longboard was built for speed and glide. Although it is beautifully built in Eastern Oregon Poplar, this is a modern longboard that is designed to be surfed. Notice, I did not say that this is a modern "high performance" longboard. This is not a thruster-crutch. This is a longboarder's longboard. It is fast down the line, noserides well, and could easily be your last and only board.

Dimensions: 9'3", 18 3/4"N, 23 1/8", 13 3/4"T

Core: Eastern Oregon Poplar

Fin: Josh Farbarow large-based 9.5" Flex Fin by True Ames Fin Co.

Glass: 4+4 Top, 4 Bottom, Resin Research Epoxy, sanded speed finish, logo in sustainably harvested abalone, blank, shape and glass by 42. Beautiful.

Price: SOLD

Thoughts: Crossfoot up onto the nose and stand there proud!

Life is short. You are good. Ride a board that makes you proud.

Goin' fishin'

9'3 longboard

This 9'3" longboard was built for speed and glide. Although it is beautifully built in traditional materials, this one in fir, this is a modern longboard that is designed to be surfed. It is fast down the line, noserides well, and could easily be your last and only board. We have surfed this shape in everything between six inches and twenty feet and it is fantastic! We shape every customer's board to fit their specific size and surfing style. However we fine tune it though, this speed glider will absorb chatter from chop on the face, carry speed across the flats, and will never bog out at the bottom like some of its foam cousins. With all of our boards you will notice how they build and hold speed. Riding a 42 Longboard is like accelerating a full-blown freight train. What you do with all that speed and power is up to you. With the 100% wood construction, this board will blow your mind with its drive, flow, and speed in the water. With the 100% organic core, beautiful finish, and heart-stopping abalone inlays, it shouldn't surprise you that your 42 Longboard’s timeless beauty is going to stop beach-goers in their tracks.

Keep in mind that beauty isn't everything though! Your 42 Surfboard is always likely to be the easiest surfboard on the environment. At 42 Surfboards, the environment comes first. It just doesn’t matter how groovy your van is or how bushy your beard is, if you are going through boards as fast as some of our friends are going through their sticks of foam, you’re just not walking the walk. At 42 Surfboards we are building boards that you will be able to pass on to your grandchildren. If you’re ready to give them up at that point.

Here at 42 Surfboards, we’d like to give you something that is really hard to find these days. We’d like to give you a wood surfboard hand-shaped by American surfers. We’d like to give you a board that will last you the rest of your life. We’d like to give you a board that is beautiful, unique, and is more than something you just surf on. Although we know that you will love surfing it.

42 Surfboards are hand-shaped from blanks that we build ourselves. Our blanks are as organic as they come and at 42, your surfboard blank isn’t going to kill anyone. Instead, it is directly causing the preservation of coastal forest land while aggressively fighting global warming. Our blanks are built from sustainably harvested wood and are chambered as radically as any in history. This gives you a remarkably beautiful and strong surfboard that, with a little love and a little luck, will last you the rest of your life.

Everybody has had a magic surfboard. A board that was better than anything else they have ever ridden. If that had been a 42 Surfboard, it would still be around and you would still be riding it today!

At 42 Surfboards, disposable boards just aren’t going to cut it anymore. Nor are toxic boards made from the same old poisonous soup that has been used since the early ‘60s. By hand-shaping local wood into beautiful high performance surfboards, our goal is to change the very paradigm of choosing a surfboard. Instead of choosing the quick and easy, the cheap and sleazy, the pop-out molded spray-painted cookie cutter foam toy, we want you to think a little. Think about the long-term cost. The environmental cost. The aesthetic cost. The social cost. And then go with the choice that is simply better by nature.

Life is short. You are good. Ride a board that makes you proud.

Dimensions: 9'3", 18 3/4"N, 23 1/8", 13 3/4"T

Core: Oregon Fir

Fins: Josh Farbarow large-based 9.5" Flex Fin by True Ames Fin Co.

Glass: 6+4 Top, 6 Bottom, Resin Research Epoxy, speed finish, logo in sustainably harvested abalone, glassed at Cascade Performance Glassing. Beautiful.

Price: SOLD

Custom fish for Forrest

This is Forrest's new fish. And some good summer reading. With the hand-foiled Larry Gephart keels from True Ames, this 5'10" beauty will be among the fastest in the water in anything from double-ankle to double overhead. With the 100% organic core, an illustrious Resin Research crystal clear epoxy finish, and heart-stopping abalone inlays, your Twin-Keel is certain to be a real eye-catcher on the beach.

Life is short. You are good. Ride a board that makes you proud.

Dimensions: 5'10, 21.5", 17", 17"

Core: Oregon Fir

Fins: Larry Gephart Twin Keels in marine ply by True Ames Fin Co.

Glass: 6+4 Top, 6 Bottom, Resin Research Epoxy, speed finish, logo in sustainably harvested abalone, glassed at Cascade Performance Glassing. Beautiful.

Price: SOLD

7'+ twin keel fish

This is Jenny's new magic board. It was designed for speed, speed, and more speed. With the Twin Keel set-up it likely to be the fastest board Jenny has ever ridden. And with some top-secret fine-tuning, it should also be loose, have more drive, flow, and carry through than anything else in the water. Like all 42 Surfboards, Jenny will notice how her Twin-Keel Fish builds and holds speed. With the hand-foiled Larry Gephart keels from True Ames, this board will be among the fastest in the water in anything from double-ankle to double overhead. With the 100% organic core, an illustrious Resin Research crystal clear epoxy finish, and heart-stopping abalone inlays, your Twin-Keel is certain to be the most beautiful board on the beach.

Here at 42 Surfboards, we are American surfers shaping wood surfboards. That's all we do. We’d like to shape you a board that will last you the rest of your life. We’d like to shape you a board that is beautiful, unique, and is more than something you just surf on. Although we know that you will love surfing it.

42 Surfboards are hand-shaped from blanks that we build ourselves. Our blanks are as organic as they come and at 42, your surfboard blank isn’t going to kill anyone. Our blanks are built from sustainably harvested wood and are chambered as radically as any in history. This gives you a remarkably beautiful and strong surfboard that, with a little love and a little luck, will last you the rest of your life.

Everybody has had a magic surfboard. A board that was better than anything else they have ever ridden. If that had been a 42 Surfboard, it would still be around and you would still be riding it today!

Life is short. You are good. Ride a board that makes you proud.

Dimensions: 7'+", 21.5"

Core: Eight year-old poplar, fully chambered

Fins: Larry Gephart Twin Keels in marine ply by True Ames Fin Co.

Glass: 6+4 Top, 6 Bottom, Resin Research Epoxy, speed finish, logo in sustainably harvested abalone, glassed at Cascade Performance Glassing. Beautiful.

Price: SOLD

A small school of fish

Midsummer sawdust

Custom longboard for Kassen

This board was built for speed and glide. Although it is beautifully built in traditional materials, this is a modern longboard that is designed to be surfed. It is fast down the line, noserides well, and could easily be your last and only board. We have surfed this shape in everything between one and twenty feet and it is fantastic! Based on your size and surfing style, we custom shape your longboard to fit you like a glove. However we shape it though, this speed glider will absorb chatter from chop on the face but will never bog down in the flats like some of its foam cousins. With all of our boards you will notice how they build and hold speed. Riding a 42 Longboard is like accelerating a full-blown freight train. What you do with all that speed and power is up to you. It is smooth. With the 100% wood construction, this board will blow your mind with its drive, flow, and speed in the water. With the 100% organic core, beauty worthy of a 1939 Italian raceboat, and heart-stopping abalone inlays, your 42 Longboard’s timeless beauty is certain to make it the most beautiful board on the beach.

Post-glassing photos from somewhere other than our sanding rooms are on their way...

Dimensions: 9'3"

Core: Oregon Fir, fully chambered

Recommended Fin: 9.5"-10.5" Josh Farbarow Flex Fin by True Ames

Glass: 6+6 Top, 6 Bottom, glassed in crystal clear Resin Research Epoxy, sanded finish, logo in sustainably harvested abalone

Price: SOLD

Custom fish for Jenny

This custom fish is for Jenny. It was designed specifically to be her magic board. Not too long. Not too short. Just right for catching 40-50 years of good waves. Happy birthday Jenny!

Our fish are built for speed. They are so fast that you feel like you are riding on ice. And yet, because your board is built in wood, it will have more drive, flow, and carry through than anything you have ever ridden before. From the moment you start paddling, you will notice how the board builds and holds speed. With the beautiful hand-made wood twin keels from Larry Gephart, you get not only the speed and drive of a 42, but also that smooth traditional feel of a fish. Based on your size and surfing style, we custom shape your board to fit you like a glove. On this one we pulled the nose and tail just a little to keep it from becoming a little longboard. The result is a sweet daily-driver that looks every bit the part of a show stopper. With the 100% organic core, crystal clear epoxy finish, and show-stopping abalone inlays, Jenny's Twin Keel is certain to be the most beautiful board on the beach whereever she takes it.

Dimensions: 7' plus a little by 21.5"

Core: Air-dried eight year-old poplar from eastern Oregon, fully chambered

Fins: Double foiled twin keels in marine ply by Larry Gephart

Glass: Burly 6+6 Top, 6 Bottom, crystal clear Resin Research epoxy, sanded finish, logos top and bottom in sustainably harvested abalone.

Price: SOLD

5'10 canard quad fish

This is the board I am riding this summer. A 100% wood canard quad, it was shaped from a blank that was designed for speed and the Canard Quad set-up boosts that velocity and lets you take it all vertical. As with all 42 surfboards, because we shape our boards from wood, the Quad Fish has more drive, flow, and carry through than anything else in the water. Based on your size and surfing style, we custom shape your Canard Quad Fish to fit you like a glove. However we fine tune it though, this speed machine will absorb chatter from chop on the face but will never bog out at the bottom of a reeling eight footer like your 15 year-old neighbor’s flexi-plexi. Like all 42 Surfboards, you will notice how your Canard Quad Fish builds and holds speed. It is like accelerating a full-blown freight train. What you do with all that speed and power is up to you. With the hand-foiled K9 Quads from 101 Fins, this board will be among the fastest in the water in anything from two to twelve feet. With the 100% organic core, an illustrious Resin Research crystal clear epoxy finish, and heart-stopping abalone inlays, your Canard Quad is certain to be the most beautiful board on the beach. Mine, on the other hand, was the last board we built in polyester. Our testing continues to show that epoxy is just so much stronger that we can't build the poly boards for anything but the very deserving wall.

Even with the deep polyester gloss coat being so beautiful, you have to remember that beauty isn't everything - your 42 Surfboard is always likely to be the easiest board on the environment at the beach. At 42 Surfboards, the environment comes first. It just doesn’t matter how groovy your van is or how bushy your beard is, if you are going through boards as fast as some of our friends are going through their sticks of foam, you’re just not walking the walk. At 42 Surfboards we are building boards that you will be able to pass on to your grandchildren. If you’re ready to give them up at that point. Again, that is why we have made the switch to epoxy for our daily drivers.

Here at 42 Surfboards, we’d like to give you something that is really hard to find these days. We’d like to give you a wood surfboard hand-shaped by American surfers. We’d like to give you a board that will last you the rest of your life. We’d like to give you a board that is beautiful, unique, and is more than something you just surf on. Although we know that you will love surfing it.

42 Surfboards are hand-shaped from blanks that we build ourselves. Our blanks are as organic as they come and at 42, your surfboard blank isn’t going to kill anyone. Instead, it is directly causing the preservation of coastal forest land while aggressively fighting global warming. Our blanks are built from sustainably harvested wood and are chambered as radically as any in history. This gives you a remarkably beautiful and strong surfboard that, with a little love and a little luck, will last you the rest of your life.

Everybody has had a magic surfboard. A board that was better than anything else they have ever ridden. If that had been a 42 Surfboard, it would still be around and you would still be riding it today!

At 42 Surfboards, disposable boards just aren’t going to cut it anymore. Nor are toxic boards made from the same old poisonous soup that has been used since the early ‘60s. By hand-shaping local wood into beautiful high performance surfboards, our goal is to change the very paradigm of choosing a surfboard. Instead of choosing the quick and easy, the cheap and sleazy, the pop-out molded spray-painted cookie cutter foam toy, we want you to think a little. Think about the long-term cost. The environmental cost. The aesthetic cost. The social cost. And then go with the choice that is simply better by nature.

Life is short. You are good. Ride a board that makes you proud.

Dimensions: 5'10", 21.5", N 17", T 17"

Core: Coastal spruce, fully chambered

Fins: K9 Quads in bamboo by 101 Fins

Glass: 6+4 Top, 6 Bottom, glossed and polished, speed finish around the fins, logo in sustainably harvested abalone, glassed at Cascade Performance Glassing. Beautiful. Although I am riding this board, all of our remaining glossed and polished poly boards have been sold as wall hangers. For us it is the end of an era. Crystal clear Resin Research Epoxy is the future for 42 Surfboards. Stay tuned - we've got some wild boards on the way! If one of them is going to be yours, you better hurry up and get in line!

Price: SOLD

5'11 fish

This board was built for speed and fishy loosness. It is so fast that you feel like you are riding on ice. And, because your board is built in wood, it will have more drive, flow, and carry through than anything you have ever ridden before. From the moment you start paddling, you will notice how the board builds and holds speed. With the beautiful hand-foiled wood twin keels from Larry Gephart, you get not only the speed and drive of a 42, but also that smooth traditional feel of a fish.

This fish was originally built for stock as a daily rider. Since then, we have made the switch to epoxy for our riders.

When we shape your 42 Fish, we start with 100% wood blanks that we build and chamber from locally grown and sustainably harvested wood. In many cases, we actually select the tree, harvest it, go over it with Matt, our local sawyer, to make sure that we get the best possible blank wood, and then mill, chamber, and glue up your blank. And that is all before we start shaping!

With its 100% organic core, hand-foiled Gephart marine-ply keels, beautiful deep gloss finish and show-stopping abalone inlays, the 42 Fish is certain to be the most beautiful board on the beach. As fun as it is to ride though, your time on the beach may be minimal.

Dimensions: 5'11", 21.5", N 17", T 17"

Core: Locally grown fir and spruce, fully chambered

Fins: Twin Larry Gephart keels in marine ply

Glass: 6+4 Top, 6 Bottom, the board pictured has a glossed and polished finish with a 42 logo in sustainably harvested abalone, glassed at Cascade Performance Glassing

Price: SOLD

5'10 fish

Dimensions: 5'10", 21.5", N 17", T 17"

Core: Locally grown fir and spruce, fully chambered

Fins: Twin Larry Gephart keels in marine ply

Glass: 6+4 Top, 6 Bottom, the board pictured has a glossed and polished finish with a 42 logo in sustainably harvested abalone, glassed at Cascade Performance Glassing

Price: SOLD

A small happy shop

6'9 Single Fin

This board was built for speed and drive. On top of feeling the water drive off the bottom of this back-to-the-future head-turner, you feel the Greenough Flex Fin load up and slingshot you out of the turn and drive you into the next one. It is so comfortably fast that you feel like you can make any section. And yet, because the board is built in wood, it slides into waves earlier, has a higher top speed, and is more comfortable at that speed than anything else I've ever ridden.

Based on your size and surfing style, we'll custom-shape your 42 Single Fin to fit you like a glove. We can also set this basic shape up with three, four, or five fins depending on your needs. However we fine tune it though, this speed machine will absorb chatter from chop on the face and will never bog out at the bottom of a reeling eight footer like your 15 year-old neighbor’s flexi-plexi. This board has DRIVE! Like all 42 Surfboards, you will notice how our Single Fin builds and holds speed. It is like accelerating a full-blown freight train. What you do with all that speed and power is up to you. With the 42 Single Fin, you are riding a time machine built in timeless materials.

When we shape your 42 Single Fin, we start with 100% wood blanks that we build from locally grown wood.

At 42 Surfboards, we believe that making the most durable boards possible is the best first step towards taking care of our environment. And we believe that we are making the highest quality surfboards you can buy today. If you aren’t satisfied when it gets to your house, or if you don’t like how it rides, return to us and we will fix it, replace it, or refund your money. For a reasonable charge we are also happy to make any repairs that you need due normal wear and tear, falling down the stairs, getting washed over the jetty, or just loving your board to death.

With the its 100% organic core, timeless Greenough flex fin and beautiful finish, the 42 Single Fin is certain to be the most beautiful board on the beach.

Dimensions: 6'9", 21.5", N 16.25", T 15.5", 2.75"

Core: Fir and Spruce in a bomber configuration. No strength spared here!

Fin: 9" George Greenough A4 Flex Fin

Glass: 6+4 Top, 6 Bottom, the board pictured has a sanded finish with no logos whatsoever, very understated and classy, glassed at North Pacific

Price: SOLD