Griffin, peak hounding recently in Newport… riding his favorite, the 5’0 Secret Menu Quad. Glad to know Griffin is getting lots of shaping done while we’re in Japan. Photo: Tom Green
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Griffin NK // 6’0 Kookumber
Griffin showing off a new 6’0 Kookumber. I’ve been more and more stoked on getting back on a Kookumber, recently. I haven’t had one in a few years… about time to return to an old favorite. Photo: Oden
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Weekend + Waves // Griffin NK
We just finished and boxed-up a big order of surfboards for Surf System France… so we went for a celebratory surf on Friday morning. Here’s Griffin, excited to get some sunshine and waves, after weeks of hard work. This is the 5’0 Secret Menu Quad that he and Cam screen-printed the cloth for, a little bit ago. Tom Green joined the surf-party and snapped water photos.
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Griffin Neumann-Kyle // Kookumber
Griffin showing off a new Kookumber for Surf System France. Triple stringer + 2-tone abstract. Photo: Oden
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Griffin NK // Mr. 3000
Griffin is about to do hand-shape #3,000 of his career. His serial numbering started with #1001, so if you happen to run across #4000, you’ve stumbled upon hand-shape 3k by Mr. Griffin Neumann-Kyle. Coincidently, if you subtract 1,000 from the serial number on your Almond Surfboard, you can figure out, sequentially, which number board you are currently holding. Photos: Oden
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Talking Surfboards // Cyrus Sutton
Griffin, Cam and I Met up with Cyrus to talk surfboards on Friday… get a new Cy’s Aquatic Almond in the works for him… and a little something new for Summer. Intense surfboard conversations either need visual references, or excessive hand gestures and surf reenactments. For the sake of time and accuracy, we went with visual references. This one is a Lumberjack that’s headed to France next month.
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Griffin NK // Outlined & Refined
Each time an Almond Surfboard gets ordered, Griffin reaches into his collection of templates and makes his first of many passes down the length of the board with a #2 pencil. Photo: Oden
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Griffin NK // The Great Pacific Ocean
Griffin and Cameron teamed up this weekend for a surfboard/art project, with the end result being a new 5’0 Secret Menu Quad for Griffin. Cameron recently invested in some basic screen printing equipment, in order to do some limited edition art projects (more on that later). Cam printed a repeating pattern of “The Great Pacific Ocean” artwork that he did recently. He then headed up to Waterman’s Guild to shoot some photos of Griffin shaping his new Secret Menu. Griffin opted to do this board start-to-finish, since it was his personal board.
After the board is shaped, the printed fiberglass cloth gets laid down, like a deck patch. Griffin laminated the board clear, hot-coated it, and then gave it a final sand to get the board ocean-ready. It’s very rare that Griffin will do a board from start to finish, so it was nice for he and Cam to add a special touch to this one.
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Thicker, Thinner, Just Right
Griffin checking the center-thickness of a Survey. 2 1/2″ on this one. Photo: Cameron Oden
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Griffin NK // New Templates
Griffin, exercising some creative freedom in the shaping bay. Photos: Cameron Oden
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Griffin Neumann-Kyle // Surf Thump
Griffin, just finishing up a 9’4 Triple Stringer Surf Thump Model. Photo: Cam Oden
Permalink to Rested // Relaxed // Back to Work
Rested // Relaxed // Back to Work
Hope everyone benefitted from a few days off. Excited to get back to it.
Photos: Cameron Oden
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Quadkumber // Sandia
5’7 Quadkumber and 5’6 Sandia Fish
Hand-shaped and continually refined by Griffin Neumann-Kyle.
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9’2 Pinwheel // Sea Blue Tint
As always, hand-shaped by Dr. Griffin Neumann-Kyle in Stoking, California.
Permalink to Cam Oden’s 5’8 Beach-King Hull
Cam Oden’s 5’8 Beach-King Hull
Cameron Oden added shaping to his bag of tricks, and shaped himself this 5’8 Beach Hull; with some supervision and direction by Griffin.
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Surfboard Scheming
Constantly discussing, debating, tweaking and refining… the joy of making surfboards.
Photo: Cameron Oden
