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Greg Pautsch shaped.
[quote="$1"] I still think the best and most functional zaps looked like this.
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that is a great looking board !
[img_assist|nid=1067609|title=.|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=427|height=640][img_assist|nid=1067608|title=Fat tail shortboard|desc=|link=none|align=right|width=427|height=640]nice board solo. i made this wide tailed shorty recently and the guy says it goes awesome. hope yours turns out well
zaps look better when they’re photographed from the hull side.
Dunno why…
Love it!.. What sort of spray did it get ?
Zoopman, single, tri or quad ?
I have a few that look similar, fun to ride if you like that kind of thing.
Greg Pautsch is an amazing shaper who because he was the American licensee for McCoy doesn’t get the rightfully earned respect in surfing history. I used to hang out and watch him to pick up tips, and techniques back in the 70’s. I dig Pautsch’s style in the water and out of it. Back then Will Jobson, and Tom Watson would do a few for him to keep up with the orders. Cheyne coming to Newport and the Mesa was like a Kelly sighting, maybe bigger. In my opinion Pautsch was and is a waaaaay better shaper than Jeff McCoy- take that Australia!
He might well be a better shaper than Jeff McCoy, But is he a better shaper than Geoff McCoy?
He is waaay better than him too.
Hey Ghettorat
Here are a couple of shots from the California years around 1980, Geoff and Greg at the factory and Cheyne and Peston at Newport.
Turnip? or turn up? or maybe we need to wait for Feb 14......Looks like a heart or a bu..cr....
That's got to be one of the worst boards you've posted so far......how about a ride report.....
I say total dogg......Hey...I'm just a back yard wanker....longboard hack....hope you sell it for big $$$$$$.....is it a single fin? Might want to add side bites.... Do you have customers that buy these boards?
What do you get Retail for something like this? you just made my day....
I'm going to work extra overtime at my real job this week in your honor....so I can buy some surf stuff but not that board....Have fun....good luck
Happy Valentines Day
Ray
This board was a custom for a pro level surfer so we will get some shots. Ha Ha…on the Valintines day. Definitely not the first time that has been said. This was a custom. You wouldn’t find one of these on my site as a model. It will be interesting to see how it goes.
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I still think the best and most functional zaps looked like this.
Looks like the back of the old Quonset hut off of 17th st. in CM. And the picture with Preston and Cheyne looks like a low tide day at 54. Brings back memories.
Is this Zak from Australia? Nice little shape. I was involved in an auto accident awhile ago and was out of commission. Drunk driver. I’m O.K. but killed my productivness for awhile. Glad to see you post this board.
Beautiful. You know I love those.
I had a few team guys on GP Singles, a friend of mine who is a pro level surfer is eaten up with his shapes at the moment. He also loves Stalls. One area GP is very underrated are his standard modern performance shapes. Absolutely gorgeous when seen in person and very functional. I haven’t ever had a single complaint.
It was hard not to be good shaping around that crew in the old neighborhood. Good shapers and good surfers giving feedback. We talk about it now. They have made films about it and they have written about it…but we lived it and nothing spoken, filmed or written comes anywhere close to what it was like.
It was both music and surfboard renaissance going on at that time. Some of the free surfing back then was unreal. Seen many a good wave at 44th when the crowds were up the street. High energy.
OK...I just see an outline that is slightly off...some wing Bumps that don't match from side to side...and other things...maybe I need new glasses.....maybe I've done too many repairs on 80's boards....most are flawed....
Happy to be a part of the "glory days".....I don't own a McCoy...but I own a few 80's gems.......Ray...fun stuff...
I love the winged fin in the wide tailed boards, this Astron zot as about a 19 inch tail and the fin fits it perfectly in my opinion. It loves the little summer wind swells we get this time of year. Who would have thought single fins for tiny waves.
Look forward to seeing photos of the finished board
Stingy, now your sounding more like ghettoray, and at the same time you have to trust what you see. That board doesn’t have the prettiest outline to me either, with a tail so wide the left cheek says: “Excuse me”; while the right cheek is screeming: “Pardon me.” Knowing and respecting GP so much I am thinking the board just isn’t photographing well.
It was a custom for a really good surfer who wanted to try it. He and GP worked out the Dims. I must admit. This one is not my thing either, but knowing GP… It will look much different in the hand than in a picture. All of his boards look better in person. I think Cheyne ended up riding round tails on his super wide models after the first Zots. Though I still think the blue really thick and wide board he had was a nice looking board.[img_assist|nid=1069917|title=Reese|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=640|height=478]
This is who is getting the board. You can believe it will be put through whatever it’s capable. Reese is riding a winged keel in this board and the board under his feet is a Horan style with boat nose.