Sneak Peak: Enjoy "Leftovers" Art Project

"Frank" by Rodney McCoubrey: Made from the tail of Bob Roger's first surfboard, Camper Shell Skin, Muffin Tin for Candleholder, Leftover Resin form Glassing and Paint Can Lid: Size 43"x25

"Wart" by Rodney McCoubrey: Made from Enjoy practice piece and the nose of a Stewart longboard, Rusted Cans and Love: Size 19"x17

"Zack" Thurster Tail, Old Broom, Resin Circles, Rusted Nails and Stomp Pad: Size 38"x17"

Here are a few samples from a little program we started called Leftovers. We have teamed up with our good friend Rodney "Rodrigo" McCoubrey to do an art project with the leftover scraps from the broken boards we make handplanes out of. For those of you who make The Leucadia Project a place you call home, you know Rodney's work. Rodney is world renowned for his work in eco folk art and we are so proud to be working with him. 

After salvaging the broken boards we use to make the handplanes we were adamant about using all that we could so that as little as possible goes into the trash. Since the leftovers where not useable by us we handed them over to Rodney to do his thing and were blown away by what he came up with. These are just a few of what came out of his studio. There are more pieces to come!

Since Rodney, Kipp and I are passionate about art education we are also donating a portion of the proceeds to support our local elementary art programs. The first school we will sponsor is Paul Ecke Central. More on that later.

Stay tuned for more works by Rodney. If you would like one of these please feel free to contact us.

For more photos click here.

Win an Enjoy Handplane and GoPro at Korduroy.tv

Buy a ticket to watch the Stoked & Broke online movie premiere HERE and be entered to win a prize pack that includes our Purple Mexi Handplane, GoPro HD camera, Korduroy T-Shirt and signed DVD. 

Mick and Rasta

We sent a couple of handplanes to Australia to our good friend Mick Waters and made a special one for his good friend Dave Rastovitch as well. Dave is one of our heros so it was an honor to build a handplane for him.  Mick just sent this shot back to give me a little feedback on how he liked it. He looks pretty stoked. Thanks Mick for all the help and inspiration. I hope you guys have fun! *enjoy

Article in The Coast News - Old surfboards get new tricks

The talented Lillian Cox of the Coast News interviewed us over the weekend. It was posted online today. Lillian is an Encinitas local and talented journalist. I love her work because her goal is to write positive stores to better our community. How cool is that? Lillian thank you so much for taking the time to share our story. You are amazing. *Enjoy

http://thecoastnews.com/view/full_story/10334136/article-Old-surfboards-get-new-tricks?instance=coast_top_story

Thank you Rip Curl!

Here is an email I got from Rip Curl. These guys are great...

Good afternoon gentleman

My name is Mark and I work for Ripcurl, in the service dept. We handle all repairs and warranty issues for all of our products including wetsuits. The reason for my email is to see if you would have an interest in the extra material that is left over from repaired suits or suits that have been replaced due to a defect. We do have a recycle center that we generally donate to, however in being a handplane fan myself I would prefer to bring new life to an item that will bring more joy to those that enjoy our oceans. So if you would like first discuss this further please feel free to contact me at the number I have provided.

Regards

Mark Tierheimer

I was so stoked to get this email from Mark. As soon as I needed rubber he sent me a box full of old wetties down to the PB shop where Steve Stout hooked me up with even more material! These guys get what we are doing and are super supportive.

Thank you much Rip Curl! They are going to good use.

For all you other companies out there. If you are into what we are doing, contact us. We'd love to see if we could reuse your old materials. *Enjoy

The Greener Blue Collaboration Benefits SaveTheWaves.org

Our friends over at thegreenerblue.com are all about sustainable and eco-friendly products in the surf industry and are huge handplane fans. So it was a no brainer to do a collaboration with them to support their cause. The Greener Blue also chose one of our favorite organizations, Save The Waves as their charity.  From the sale of each Greener Blue model $10 will be donated to them t keep them fighting for our waves.

If you want one of these let us know. Here are 3 we just finished up and shipped out and are off getting some barrels as I type.

Thanks to Mark Marovich from The Greener Blue and Josh Berry from Save the waves for the collaboration. It's one of our favorites! Enjoy.

Mr. Squidy Handplane at "The Big Group Show" tonight.

Surfy Surfy's JP St. Pierre was asked to display his Mr. Squidy handplane collaboration we did together at The Group Show put on by the Surfing Heritage Foundation. This is JP's first art show and technically mine and Kipp's as well! Congratulations JP and Kipp good jobs guys! Barry at Surfing Heritage is a huge fan of our handplanes and we will be doing more with them later. You'll also be seeing more of JP's art on our handplanes. If youwant your own Mr. Squidy contact us and we'll hook you up.

Opening Reception

This Saturday, Nov 6 · 5-8pm

featuring work by: Jay Alders, Meredith Ambruso, Matt Beard, Big Toe, Esteban Bojorquez, Drew Brophy, Candy, Ron Croci, John Culqui, Norm Daniels, Danica Elbertse, James Finch, Damian Fulton, Roy Gonzalez, John Holm, JP St. Pierre, Calvin Knott, Wade Koniakowsky, Rick Rietveld, Heather Ritts, Phil Roberts, Kevin Roche, Blakeney Sanford, Joshua Serafin, Kevin Short, Tyler Warren, Alex Weinstein, Susan Wickstrand, Jeff Yeomans 

South Coast Plaza West (formerly Crystal Court)

Mon-Fri 10AM-9PM · Sat 10AM-8PM · Sun 11AM-6:30PM 

3333 Bear St., ste 303, Costa Mesa, CA 92626

714.800.1654

www.surfingheritage.org

Purple Mexi

In the shop now.