UC126

AMBER brought an ex-surfboard shaper into the workshop — someone who had run his own board brand and held himself to a standard of finish that was entirely his own. Not the industry standard. His. The idea was to find out what happened when that obsession met AMBER's material language.

The answer came in two stages. The first was UC94: entirely experimental, nobody had asked for it, made purely to find out if the idea worked. It worked. Someone saw it and asked for one.

That commission became UC126 — the same concept, sharpened by everything the first attempt had taught. A two-hundred-year-old oak beam, traces of paint, plaster, and original nails still embedded in the wood. Split in two, encapsulated in resin, and shaped into a GUN: the board design built for very large waves, long and narrow, made for commitment. This one runs 8.4 feet, inspired by a model from Basque shaper Pukas.

The beam spent two centuries holding up a building. It now holds up a conversation about what craft means when two disciplines that have never met decide to find out what they have in common.