Travers Adler and the Gullet, working it out.
photo:B.DiPierri
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Albers' Duckula
Kyle Albers: Design.
RLovelAce: Shape.
Potential: Ridonculous
CheckTha: Deck flatness
and
Disgruntled small man behind Albers.
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Revenge is a 6'5 Pintail Hull
6'5" x 21" x 2 7/8" for hollow waves...After the past few nights of super negative tide, I can happily say she goes wonderfully in the tube; silky smooth!
Still sussing out the fin setup, so far it's gone best as a single with the fin pictured moved back about 1" from that spot. Feeling like a wide-based, more raked fin with a long flexy tip will be the call in the end but there's more experimenting to be done.
Monday, February 1, 2010
Mondayism
8'4 Hull and beyond...
This to me is the essence of a custom surfboard. Ed emailed me and mentioned that he builds his own boards and experiments with lots of 8'+ shapes; simmons style twins with very wide tails and parallel outlines. He asked if I would brainstorm and work a bit of hull magic into that basic idea in a long parallel outline with a wide and soft tail.
In all honesty when I stepped into the shaping room with this blank I didn't 100% know what was going to come out the other end...when I'm asked to do an experiment or work out a project I usually just start drawing templates until the right one comes along and flows in all the right places...this one did that quickly even though the -idea- of it was a bit odd sounding.
anyways, once I get a template down, I shape the rest of the board to match those curves...my boards rotate around the idea that no curve is out of place, and flows naturally with no forced bends or changes as it goes into the next.
The side boxes are for keels, by the way...
Don't plan too much...you may end up missing out on something interesting.
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Surfing is Funsies
Nathan sent me a nice shot of him goin' backside on his modified t-rev; check it out here.
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Used VeloSim for sale!
Jeff H. is selling his velosim:
$450 with a custom Midnight Products boardbag, glasson ply keels, this one rules.
5'5 x 23 x 3
email jeffharvey@gmail.com
8'4 of Hull
More to come from this shape...very stoked on the outcome, she's got a big wide tail and a long parallel outline which will be presented to you all shortly!
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