jim phillips and the pig.

steven sent me this via surfapig@live.com: hey mike, here is my 9'6 pig jim phillips shaped for me recently.not my first swine...but for my palette this is the most savory in the delicatessen loose off the rear, and stable in 4th gear. steven

you can not fuck with jim phillips.

oh my!!!

behold! the 3'9" piglet!!!!!!!!!!! thank you matt and the BING crew!!!

NICE!!!!!
bit of an S deck on it. to say I am ULTRA STOKED to get this thing out in some body wompers in an UNDERSTATEMENT!!
well, then there is this. Jim the Genius made this for me. I didn't order it, my wife did...with out telling me. god i love that woman! the one board i would never order but would always want.
scored a few clean ones this a.m. at sliders on it. earned the name "pelican's magic carpet".

SERIOUSLY?...SERIOUSLY!!!!!!
we drew a ship on the chalk board in the garage.
nice!!
oso is oh so awesome!!
saw this when we were buying produce at whole foods. have to love fractals in nature!
pure slide of stoke picking up my piglet today. margaret snapped this of me. i found it on the bing face book page.

Andrew Diegnot and his 10'4" x 23" x 16" Jim Phillips!!!!!

well...you know what they say jim "the genius".

FEEEEYYYYYYY-YYYUUUCCCKKK!!!!

jim phillips island pig!

i was up on the hill today with my buddy smukes. we stopped by surfy surfy too.while on the hill, it was nice to see matt calvani and jim phillips. jim had this INSANE island style pig. this baby is sold.

it was sprinkling out side when we took the photos!


blurry shop photos!
how artistic!
smukes!
check the video! jim describes this board!!!

Andrew Diegnot sent me this FRESH shirt from Jim Phillips!!!!!

YES!!!!! Jim Phillips is a genius.

order one here!

...jim phillips, pig discussions...

below is jim's raw contribution to my surfapig article in SLIDE magazine.

1) Wide spot behind center is really the design element of the pig. Velzy could only answer the true reason he used "pig", but seeing howhe was a "womanizer", it most likely reminded him of some women he had"known", kind of wide below the waist. My rep Andrew was chatting with Hap at Dale's house when he and Dale were doing the balsa pig reissues and recalls Hap telling a story of Dale calling him into the bay where he was shaping. Dale asked Hap what he thought of the board, the first pig Dale had shaped, and Hap said it was about the ugliest thing he'd seen...the outline looked like pig. Hap added that he thought Dale was designing the board but also was trying to figure out a way to shape less, not having to take the meat out of the whole blank, if he just left the ass wide then he'd be done.

2) The Malibu chip held width nearly all the way to the tail andthough still a point and shoot board, the Chip was leaps and bounds easier to ride than the planks and kook boxes. The chip was on the road to pig but it lackedthe ability to be put over on a rail. Once the pig came along it was bye bye chip.

3) The pig outline stayed as the standard for surfboard designuntil 1967 when nose widths started growing and the nature of the pigstarted to be lost in a parallel looking outline. Signature models and purpose specific models came out and it was bye bye pig.

4) The pig has a short turning radius which lent it's self to the inception of "hot dog" surfing. Dale used to take the guys out try the boards and they were wowed by how much easier they turned. Today it's just really purposeful. Like most all the boards I shape the more pulled in nose keeps the rail out of the wave for more than a quarter of the boards length and helps the board surf more responsively without getting pushed out straight towards the beach. The action is from almost mid-point back to the end of the tail where the design elements of the outline effect the ride. Then of course the rail shape, bottom contours and fin placement are where all the shapers really differ. I like a 50/50 rail to a 60/40 rail, depending on the surfer, and on the bottoms I like to play with a combination of flat, belly or roll. Then the rocker I use is something gleaned from working with Dale which I smoothed out to create great board entry, silky trim and intuitive action off the rail-to-rail and tail. I mainly use one fin design but we're open to using really anything we can come up with. The one thing I really don't like to do is slap the fin right on the tail block. While it won't replace your nose rider, most people are surprised by are how easy the pig nose rides and how much fun they have on the board using it as their go-to board.

I have templates from Florida that I used faithfully going back tothe mid to later 70's, they all had the wide spot behind center, thisis what Tinker showed me and I knew he knew what was up. When shaping the first board that Tinker had me shape for myself, wI drew the wide point at center and he said "what the fuck are you doing?"

The pig never died. Lance Carson, Tyler, Takayama, myself and countless others who understand theconcept continue to incorporate it into todays modern surfboard.

Andrew Diengott sent me these.

holy shite!

(was) for sale 9'10" jim phillips pig $800 (sold!)

this board rides beautifully. i only hope i can either buy this board back , or get a new pig from jim some day. i traded my 10' lance carson classic 60's pintail for this beauty. i am selling some of my toys to help with medical bills surrounding my wife's pregnancy. this board is in great condition. there are a few little scratches on it, but that is all. 

$800 cash. firm on price. pick up only (might be able to deliver to somewhere in southern california). email me at surfapig@live.com

balsa bill surfs a jp pig at a secret spot!

Andrew D brought this to my attention. Jim Phillips shaped this for Balsa Bill. Andrew said "This is a board Jim built a few years ago, before my pig, for Balsa Bill Yerkes. "   Balsa Bill said this about it: "Surfing my Jim Phillips shaped squaretail made from a Clark heavy pour "classic" blank with a custom 3" balsa stringer and who should show up but Will Lucas with his video camera. I decided to intercut the video footage with some Super 8 film I shot from the board with my Nautica underwater movie camera."

Jim Phillips and the copycat!

Those in the know ...know Jim knows how to shape. Here is a little video of Jim and a copycat.

Jim Phillips is the man. Check this out!

Jim Phillips and the way of the glue up!

Andrew Diengott of Jim Phillips surfboards sent me this and posted it on lb.net:
"The inception of the design is pure Billy Hamilton, a Surfboards Hawaii Stylist I, the original surfer that Skip Fry wanted to be. I've had this concept in mind for a long time, but had never brought it to fruition. A 9'9" US Blanks foam core was my starting place. When I received notice that I was being considered for the Billabong event, the idea came to the surface once again - I sketched it out roughly and then started seriously plotting it out. The decision to actually put saw to foam was the first obstacle, but as my Dearly departed father said to me many times, "The devil hates a coward.” The first few cuts were easy, but as I started to go "around the corner" this was where difficulty started to step into the picture. There was no easy way to use clamps on this layout. I have 6,8 and 10 foot pipe clamps and by butting them against the tips of the already glued sticks, I could get a bite on the nearly straight outline. When all 17 stringers were in place, I next needed to install the "sun" which needed to be mechanically accurate so free handing it was out of the question. I have several professional big routers so I made a template to route the curve accurately into the blank. The replacement piece of foam needed to be a true arc, but 3/32 nds smaller in diameter to accommodate the redwood stick that would separate it, kind of like an annulus, from the rest of the design. This was accomplished but taking a piece of old Walker Foam and shaping it to the same curve and gluing it, along with the wood into the blank. It was now time to lay the Stylist I template on the blank and put saw to foam and cutout the plan shape. With pencil on foam the circular saw was put into play and the planshape came to life. With the outline cut I would normally clean the outline with the planer, but wood grain 90 degrees to the planer was a guaranteed blow out of the stringer ends. Fortunately I have a carbide grit planer and used this to keep the outline clean and free of splintering. Once it was time to get to work with the planer, the very nature of the design had its own problems; the stringer layout made the blank very flexy in the center and the amount of stringers as well as the varied angles was another concern for the blades. The blank had to be balanced over my shaping stands in a particular way to help control the flex. To control the stringer blow outs or splintering I used the regular planer with newly sharpened blades to rough out the board and then I pulled out the carbide grit planer again to do all the finish work. After all the planer work was done, the block sanding went fairly fast for what it was - I had prepped it well and knew what was in store for myself heading into the final stretch. The fin followed the same design as the blank which I laid up with volan cloth, the same as the boards glassing, redwood, foam and pigment. It was completed in 2 days...just in time. This is not the Michael Angelo's Sistine Chapel, but nevertheless, a masterpiece by anyone’s expectations."
Concept. Glue up. Shape. Red Gloss Color. Fin. By Jim Phillips

Foam 9’9” by US Blanks.
Airbrush sun color on foam by Sam Cody.
Fin lamination and gloss by Keith Swanson.
Volan lamination by Alex Villalobos
Gloss by Brian Johnson
Polished by Tracy Evans.

The wood is old growth redwood salvaged from a 20' tall wine cask that used to be in Napa. The wood was so soaked with red wine from over the years that milling the wood gave off a strong red wine aroma. This board would go great with a 2 lbs Kobe rib eye and head high waves.

All photos by Jim Phillips








"This board would go great with a 2 lbs Kobe ribeye and head high waves. "
WHAT THE PH U C K??? Its no my intent to claim this board is a pig. Here is the deal. I respect Jim and his work. PERIOD. This board needs to be seen. Hence my post. Enjoy.

The show is over...Jims board went for ~$8400. It cleared about $5K more over the next closest. Whoa. The buyer....Rusty.