Fried fish

Went up to the Alley last weekend and had a look at the fish fry with sydney shapers Sean Wilde and Mark Gnech. The guys were taking a break from an old school road trip: van stacked with boards,sleeping out under the stars,beans out of cans and the obligitory stints at the pub. Mark was doing some R'n'D on some fruity new shapes he's been working on as well as stocking up all the 'Narra boys that are up the coast now. There was much Radness to be had. My favourites were of course my WILDE Simmons...Tom Wegeners chambered Alaia, The Mandala boards that Tyler Warren had bought over and of course the coloured awesomness from the guys at SEA.

heres a few shots i pinched from the Fish Fry blog....

http://thealleyfishfry.blogspot.com/

Match stick

Paulownia is a genus of between 6–17 species (depending on taxonomic authority) of plants in the monogeneric family Paulowniaceae, related to and sometimes included in the Scrophulariaceae. They are native to much of China (its name in Chinese is 泡桐, pinyin: pàotóng), south to northern Laos and Vietnam, and long cultivated elsewhere in eastern Asia, notably in Japan and Korea. They are deciduous trees 40–50 ft tall, with large leaves 15–40 cm across, arranged in opposite pairs on the stem. The flowers are produced in early spring on panicles 10–30 cm long, with a tubular purple corolla resembling a foxglove flower. The fruit is a dry capsule, containing thousands of minute seeds.

I think it makes a nice board.

Been chipping away at this sled the past week, thanks to sean for the guidance, and for letting a madman use his tools and in his shaping bay