Merry Christmas from Killawava

Working on new strap setup that will slightly elevate

your hand off the deck.  This, I believe will create less drag,  we shall soon see.  Also I am using

a new brew of pine tar, boiled linseed oil and turpentine.  It takes a little longer to cure, but I 

believe it will be worth it.

Handplane Hoedown April 5 2014

The spring Hoedown put on by Brownfish this year was killer with tons of fun and handplane craftsmen.  Lots of groms stoked on life and old guys and dudes with full beards...

@brownfish

@enjoyhandplanes

@jonwegenersurfboards

@realdutchsurfboards

@superbuiscuitsc @mabo_shichiri @party_missile_handplanes 

@westsideboards

@papa_planes

@flyyboards

@mussel_shoals

@trayboarding

@johnematteson

Met a lot of fun people with a stoke on life and tons of ideas and innovations!  Great seeing all of you and I look forward to the next one in the Fall!  

Here's a video I made out in the water with a headcam...

http://youtu.be/1h0Dz_QCXjE

Here's a link to the Handplane Hoedown Facebook page...

https://www.facebook.com/events/372419139522362/

GoPro Videos

I received a GoPro 3 for Christmas from my Uncle Jay so this really got me thinking how to capture surf videos.  I really like the view of the thing strapped to my forehead so I bought a headstrap...

This headstrap was made with elastic straps so it was really hard to keep the camera attached to my head while bodysurfing.  The camera kept bashing me in the nose so I cut off all the elastic straps and rebuilt the thing with none-stretch tubular webbing and a needle and thread...

This new strap worked killer and never fell off.  However,  it did leave some pretty funky tan lines on my face haha!  Here are some videos I made...

http://youtu.be/luSyJHFYCT4

http://youtu.be/D-EfqE2x6o8

More Killawava Handplanes

Tubetime round pintail

Tubetime Sallowtail

Mini Stealth Bomber

The Kite

Tubetime

Tubetime

Killawava.com will link you to my main page.  

If you are interested you can contact me at:

johnematteson@gmail.com

or message me at

(760)617-4846

Thanks for checking out Killawava

Gettin Giggy Witit

Between chemo treatments I've been trying to stay busy making and painting handplanes.  I'm still out of the water until January seeing that I have a port installed in my chest for IV every other week.

So here are a few of the boards I've been working on...

Cosmic space look

Bearded Native lok

Super Sarah's board

Twedal Dee

Cosmic Space (bottom)

Pink Dot Diddle

Dylan's board (top)

Dylan's board (bottom)

George's board

George's board (bottom)

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Sand Forever

It is fun to sand until your hands fall off.  It's true it's really fun!