The Iron Cross is already turning into Handplanes

Kipp doesn't waste any time. With the fresh foam from the Iron Cross, Kipp has been busy making some new handplanes. He has been getting inspired and going nuts with the resin tents. He's making me wait to post the final boards but here's a hint of what one is going to look like. He got the idea from a piece of  tie die that was laying around.  Enjoy.

Broken Board Handplanes by Kipp Denslow

For a while now I have been thinking about what to do with the countless broken boards I see at the beach and in peoples yards. Boards that will never see water again and will eventually end up in the land fill. 

The idea of these once beloved boards ending up in the trash just because they got snapped bugged me. It was a waste for one and cruel to a board that was once free and spent its time in the water. 

After some thought and some inspiration from Cyrus Sutton, Danny Hess and Brown Fish for their wood handplanes, Kipp Denslow and I started playing with the idea of turning these old boards into something new. Something that we could reshape into a new beloved friend of the wave riding persuasion. 

The result of this project was something that has completely opened my mind to a new world of wave riding. The goal to save broken boards turned into something much more. It turned into fun!

With Kipp as the shaper and glasser and me as the broken board hunter and test pilot we are setting out to clean up the landfills and have fun while doing it.  So if you have a broken board and it will go into the trash, give us a shout and we will take it off your hands. Who knows, maybe you'll see that board again in the water someday? 

Enjoy.

EL