Kipp and his two daughters.
Kipp stopped by today to show off his latest garage creation. It is a 5'10.5" yellow resin tent quad fish he made for his friend Yoshi. Yoshi really wanted a yellow board with a lightening bolt on it. I really like it. I really wanted to ride this one! Yoshi... once you get some wax on her can I take her out?
I have been featuring Kipp a lot as I am really impressed with what the guy can do out of a small space in his garage and with minimal set up. He is totally self taught and has confessed that he does this all with a very limited shaping and glassing environment. I think he embodies the old school spirit of board building. Armed with some determination and natural skill he is able to build with his own two hands what the rest of us can only buy. And, he does this all while taking care of his two daughters. Which, as any of you dads know, that is a huge job in itself.
To make it even cooler the boards even work. Erik has been test piloting them and can't get enough. Every time Erik sees Kipp pull up with a new board he is over seeing if he can ride them.
