New Handplane

Just finished up a couple handplanes with a new red wine staining technique on them. These are for sale at Harbour Surfboards. Also feel free to email me for your own custom order!

Fun Day

Couple of photos from a fun day of body surfing. I even broke the strap on my handplane. Pretty stoked because I can see how to make my straps stronger. 

Assembly Line

Here are a few getting varnished for HANDPLANE DEMO DAY.

Make Your Own Handplane

Shane Bowman-Handplane from briankucera on Vimeo.

Video made by my friend Brian Kucera.

Handplane in CSULB University Art Muesum "Insights 2012" Show

My final project from Wood shop made it into the annual University Art Museum "Insights 2012" art show at CSULB. Pretty cool to have a handplane amongst all this other awesome art!

The handplane is made from free bamboo plywood samples that I glued together and shaped. Then I soaked the bamboo in red wine for 24 hours to get the dark burgundy stain and sealed it with UV curing polyester resin. 

#12 and The Tray

I found a little spare time between school and work so I got to make a couple more handplanes. The diamond tail went to a friend of a friend. He used to own a Hand Gun back in the day and when he heard I was making handplanes he had to get one. Thanks for the support!

I am calling the one on the right "The Tray" because it is modeled after a fast food tray. It has a flat bottom, no concaves whatsoever, just a slight entry rocker and thats it. Its designed maximize planing surface for those smaller mushy days. I am excited to try it out. I mounted a Go Pro mount on it too so check back for some video clips and a review on how it works.

1st Session with the Bamboo Plane

Swell finally materialized for me to try out my new bamboo handplane that was in the previous post. The plane works great. I was very pleased with the adjustable strap, it felt strong and secure. I think the combination of the channels and the pintail definitely made a difference in holding a good line through the steep sections. All in all I am satisfied. Time to make more!

-Body womping close to home

Photos courtesy of my friend Brian Kucera, check out his other great photos at www.briankucera.com

Handplane #10, double digits

This is the diamond tail model that I have made a couple times before. I recently got to use this model on a left hand point break in Mexico and it worked great. After telling my boss at Harbour Surfboards in Seal Beach, CA how well it worked in Mex and he wanted to me to make him one for the fun shore break of laguna beach. So here is the one I made for him. This one has a new adjustable strap on it too, so its ready for sharing. The new strap is two pieces of velcro that fasten tightly for a nice fit. There is a piece of neoprene sewed to the bottom of the velcro to keep it nice and comfortable.

R & D in Mex

New adjustable velcro and neoprene strap

Diamond Tail

Yet Another

Yet another handplane. This time I made it a little longer than the first pintail and added a wing in the tail, with the channels on the bottom flushing out at the wings. Hopefully to gain more hold in the barrel. This one is for another guy from Hinano Tahiti Clothing. He saw the other two I made for some guys there and wanted to give one a try for himself. So here it is, stay tuned for some feedback on how it works.