Anyone know anything about these boards??? I recently got a 7-4, it is fibreglass, really nice glass job, has fin boxes, FCS i think, has “American Boardworks Co.” stamped on it and map of US on the bottom. Really nice board - anyone know where they are from or shaped ??
Freaking China board built to look like it was made in the USA. Freaking a-hole kook, slanteye bastards.
YEP. CHINESE. IMPORTED INTO VA. BEACH. THE “AMERICAN” NAME AND LOGO ARE A MOCKERY. HATE 'EM.
OMG! are they really making boards in China…Who’s the kook who is having them made and importing them?. thats a shame.
working up a gob of spit. Ptewy on the things. American Boardworks cause no Americans works on em.
slanteye? whos the freaking a hole. what the *#@! does that have to do with surfing?
The guy that’s shipping those things in is Mike Dolsey. He also brings in these MD skimboards, MD surfboards and other various chinese stuff. We’ve had to repair some of them that come in all busted up. He ran into a bit of trouble lately, someone tipped off FCS about the fake(knock-off) chinese fin plugs that are in those things. He’s been cutting all the shapers/builders throats up and down the east coast with those things.
My wife is korean and my kid half . Please keep your racist remarks in your ass where they belong–thank you
last june while at the quiky airshow in maruki japan,i was shown the japanese copy of fcs plugs, they look great quality. they also have an oval plug that you can use instead of fcs’s! with more movement back and forwards. great value for around $1.50aud per plug! http://www.feraldave.com
What the hell is going on with our sport / lifestyle. Imagine you have a young son or daughter reading thru the threads. It starts with the Pavel threads, was the man here to defend himself is this board the judge and jury. Then you have body boarders vs surfers and the word “HATE” in the same thread. Shaper’s Co-op, you have 2 guy’s who want to beat each others brains out. That brings us to the worst of the worst. American Boardworks. It’s called “Racism”, which is no better than “Cancer”. For anyone posting the racist remarks, put youself in the shoes of the poster “no racism please”. People like to throw around the phrase “Aloha spirit” & “soul”. Well my friends, Aloha & soul like sand thru the hour glass is slowly running out.
Cinese boards posing as Americans is inexcusable. Americans posing as ignorant racist bastards is equally inexcusable. 6 days till x-mas, in case you lost track of your calender. Drew
I feel its racisim for chinks to put American Boardsworks on their chopsticks so they can sell them to uneducated beginners, its the shops fault for buying the crap too. When they sell their crap and put americans out of business what do you call that?? What goes around comes around , Boardworks has already gone out of business, I have heard someone is trying to get them started up again, I hope they fail, bunch of sell outs. Anyway to the guy married to the Korean, to each his own I have no beef with her or you, Im married to a drunk, american indian. The best way to fight the imports is to build the best quality, hottest AB, coolest sticks and to educate the public abut them. The imports cant touch that.
Mika-speaking of education, you need to go back to kindergarten.! Your ‘message’ is lost in your stupidity.
MKIA, you’re an idiot. Last time I checked, there were plenty of “slanteye” surfers ripping it up in Hawaii. Maybe you should paddle out and share your views with some of them?
Hey MKIA, just a couple of points. Boardworks is not working out of China. By far, most companies doing business out of China are American companies. 60% of all Exports from China are American companies exploiting the cheap labor. Your, fucking, ignorant statements are a true value of what America has become. Ignorant servents looking through childs eyes. I’d ride a Ben Aipa boardwork,anyday, before I’d ride a MKIA. Your a hazard to humanity.
First of all, a question. Is Boardworks, the company founded by a bunch of top shapers to produce epoxy laminate versions of the shapers boards, the same as Amercian Boardworks? http://www.boardworkssurf.com/ I know one of the shapers involved in Boardworks, their production is in Slovakia and not China, but the shapers are really just interested in taking a hand in the epoxy laminate board production. Surfboard materials are moving forward, and these shapers are being a part of this change, instead of being negative about it and resisting. These people are different from Surftech, even if the production techniques are similar. Besides, each shape is going to be a classic production shape from a long-time experienced shaper. They don’t do custom boards.
Blakstah, your answer is no, boardworks is like surftech. American Boardworks is regular poly/glass with a logo thats shipped into the US via the far east. http://www.surfboardglassing.com
whoa!! 1. Thanks for the info 2. Thanks for the majority of people who are not blazing racists 3. Putting “American Boardworks” on an imported sweatshop board is shameful
Here in NY there are alot of the “Challanger. Surfboards Australia ect” boards that are made in China. I’ve got friends that have bought these boards. For the money they are perfect for the beginner , I’ve taken them out and they are great to ride. They do seem to fill a need here, as a first board they are great then the surfing community tells them what crap they are and they go buy a production board off the rack which in my view isn’t that much better than the china brands as I’ve seen the chinese funshapes out live most rusty and al merrik midsize boards. It seems that everybody that I’ve seen start on these boards and continue surfing have all stepped up to your sacred soul filled custom shaped pieces of Americana. All my boards are domestic custom boards but I’m recommending the china board as a beginner board. Without the far east there would be no way you would be on this internet voicing your racist ways go back to american made pen and paper and bitch amung yourselves.