Points East didn't start as some get rich quick scheme, or anything like that. As a matter of fact, I found out about hand planes for body surfing by browsing my favorite sites: Swaylocks and Korduroy. At the first sight of hand planes, I was skeptical. However, I wanted to try one. So I free-handed a template, refined it, traced it onto a really crappy piece of rotted and porous wood and went to town on it. It was kinda of the first time I used a bench plane, as I never enjoyed them in high school. But I quickly learned to love the tool. Before I even got to try the first one, I made another. The first wave I ever caught on a hand plane gave me the wildest sensation... My mouth was hanging open so much that I swallowed somewhere near 5 gallons of water, which I then coughed up when I resurfaced.
Since that day, I was hungry. I wanted to shape and experiment as much as possible, and I scavenged everywhere for old wood. After more shaping, I wanted to share the stoke as well as become a better wood worker. My first stringer plane was gorgeous, but still, my most proudest work was the only double stringer plane I've done to date, seen below.
I was so proud of it, and when it finally sold, it was like watching a child leave your home forever. Well, I think so, cause I've never had a kid. That was the start of surf craft woodworking. The plane is actually sitting on top of my poplar Alaia that I had shaped a few weeks before, which is the first of many.
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