Thanks Bill,
And Aloha in return…
Keep us up with the progress.
Josh
Here’s a shot of my Penetrator I got at a yard sale for $20. Not sure which one it is but
rides awesome.
Didn’t work,not important.Carry on.
I seen on the photo thread that it was Wayne Rich making the balsa penetrator
Bill, any updates on the board? Have you been able to ride it? How does it go? Did you get the “classic” Penetrator, or…?
Mike
Remember the Morey Pope ad in Surfer where you had to fold over the page and it approximated different types of waves and they told you which one of their boards (Penetrator, Blue Machine…) to ride based on your home break?
That was one of the best ads ever.
Had occasion to surf with Mr. Peck over the last few years.
Last time I saw him…after snapping a leash…walking up the beach…he stopped me and after whineing about the cheap leash etc…he took me back to his van and gave me a brand new one…would not take any doughnero. Shortly afterward I got one of my memorable waves ever…would not have happened without the genorosity of John.
He is an amazinly fit man…surfing for hours on end and paddeling against currents that few could do.
Rogelio
Bill…I would like to see that board before or after glass.
agreed. great ad, beautiful boards…
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Bill, any updates on the board? Have you been able to ride it? How does it go? Did you get the "classic" Penetrator, or...?Mike
Aloha Mike and Proneman
I have been so busy with other things my board is still sitting in the glassing room waiting for me to glass it. I will post some pictures when I get to working on it.
John said mine was more of a Rocket Model. It needs to handle some North Shore size occasionally.
Finally getting around to glassing my Peck Penetrator. Yeah, it has been way too long but it has been a bad year![img_assist|nid=1046193|title=Yellow Tint Peck Penetrator|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=640|height=582]
Nice color, Bill. Post up some pics when she is done.
I'm enjoying my DR classic.
Mike
I bought a used 1999 "classic" Penetrator. It seduced me in the shop immediately, gorgeous and cool, but riding it was really ... I hated it at first! After the first couple of surfs I was thinking "How bad does this board suck?!?" I was riding it in HB beachbreak, and I only stuck with it to prove to myself that it was the board that sucked and not me. Slowly it (I) came around, the rides got better, and then I was riding it full time and loving it. I was coming off a 9-6 Phil model, and the handling characteristics were a lot different. After the better part of a year I wondered if I could ever go back to the Phil. I found the Peck to be really slippery on the wall, fun slippery, loosey-goosey for the climb and drop. It was a great noserider, of course, and fast on the hollow insiders. Later on a got a Cooperfish Hornet and that was that, case closed, my perfect board. When I've gone back to the Peck for a change of pace I find it... almost annoying. It's such a different rider that it takes a few days to remember what it did well, and in the meantime I'm cursing it out. I KNOW that I loved it at one time, so I always give it a chance, but it couldn't be much more different than the Coop. The rails in the middle are so fat and round (yeah, that's the slippery) that it stinks off the bottom- no punch, no edge. Angle and go seems to be the m.o. The only place the board really shines is on the nose (I know, duh). Riding from the middle is slow. It's not that great at cutbacks. It sucked at San O; way too fat and slopey. It needs a hollow face. So right now (in my use-it-rarely program) it seems kinda like a one-trick pony: noserider. Like I say, I did think it was killer at one time, so I know there's a way to make it work. I'm not selling the board, but to me it's an odd bird for sure. No dis, of course, to Mr. Peck.
The rails on mine, are not fat and round.
Here is a photo of the bottom just glossed.
[img_assist|nid=1046580|title=Peck Penetrator Glossed Bottom|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=427|height=640]
Ahwooo Bill. I'm loving the wood noseblock, and is that a bit of concave in the nose I see, or are the lights just reflecting that way?
Mike
That's a beautiful piece of work there...
And you glassed it yourself? Large props!
Aloha Cosmo
Since you asked, I checked to be sure. No concave just very flat in the center with some release out toward the rails. I think the lights are reflecting along the area where the release breaks from the flat.
The redwood does pop nicely under that yellow tint :-) … There is also a faint outline of the slightly darker deck lap around onto the bottom.
When I get a chance I will do some final finish photos and post them up. But I am stuck in the middle of my Yacht Refurbish project at the moment.
Thanks for the compliment MikeD
I always was more of a “surfboard builder” then just a “shaper”. The media loves “Shapers” it doesn’t know what to do with “Surfboard Builders”.
“Hello, Central Casting… please send down a Shaper Dude to studio 10. Thank you”.
There is a packaged image endorsed in this and the contemporary media is seemingly very comfortable with it. Sadly, it isn’t always representative of true realities. And when reality doesn’t fit the “existing media model” it is apparently hard for the media to then work with it.
I like building boards start to finish. My obsessive nature likes controlling the process out to a predictable finish.
Here are shots of the boards being sanded.
[img_assist|nid=1046585|title=Bill Grinding White Peck Penetrator|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=640|height=427]
[img_assist|nid=1046586|title=Bill Grinding Yellow Peck Penetrator|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=640|height=427]
Damn.
Now I want a Rocket.
Mike