Waves from a great week of swell

Hags

Rincon

Manhattan Beach

Rincon

Shape: The Bomber

Shape: 7' x 21'' x ?

Bottom Lam (Photo: Kevin Graner)

Resin Abstract Step 1

Step 2

Step 3

Pinstripe, Gloss, and Polish

Done

...and done.

 Time to shred!

The Jam: Roy Buchanan

The song is Dual Soliloquy by Roy Buchanan...a beautiful studio warm up.

Shape: Mint Chip

Waves

The last couple of weeks provided super fun beach break action...

Shape: MiniLog

Bottom Lam

Glossed with Resin Abstract

Burnout Testing Grounds

The Jam: The Gumbo Variations

Good Morning

Good Morning from CBob Shoemaker on Vimeo.

Woke up and took my dog for a walk...love living at the top of the hill...

Drive-by Photos

LAX

Topanga

PBC

Shape: Pincer

Belly to spiral V to almost flat double concave

Fretless

This Mexican Fender Stratocaster is my first electric guitar and it used to be black gloss bodied. Made a few changes to it...sounds a lot different now...

Ripped the frets out

Filled with some marine resin then sanded the neck smooth

Reshaped the body and pickguard, stripped the paint and headstock, refinished everything and Bam! ...my first fretless guitar was born. Running a combo of bass and electric flat wounds on it. Fat and smooth...

Remake with a Twist

Two inches shorter, pulled the nose in, and gave the deck some concave. Shred time!

Isla Vista: Population 1

Found these pics from a while back. When I was living in Isla Vista I did a project where I harvested bamboo from the neighborhood, designed and build myself a hut, installed it in an empty lot, and asked my friend Lindsey Ross to shoot one morning with some of her nifty film cameras. I mainly wanted to just build a hut, but I squeezed some college credits out of this project so I guess the goal was to portray a place with an extremely high population density as something completely opposite...

Getting it Going

Camouflage 

Home Cooking

Diving In...

...To Tranquility 

Mi Casa!

iPhone Fun Around the Shop

A Short Film With A Groovy Tune

Lovegraft from CBob Shoemaker on Vimeo.

Offshore Weekend

Indicator was Howling!

Mini-Barrels on the Mint Chip

Afternoon Snapshots

Great Weekend!

The Jam: The Mattson 2

The Living Dead

Buddy Matt Zabatta came by the shop today to snap some pics and brought with him a mangled blank found in the garage rafters. Looked like a lost cause at first, but I found some life in there. It was revived it into a 6'0'' Mint Chip.