Beautiful and unique 11'1''

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This is an 11’1’’ handshaped and hand painted ( not airbrushed ) by Steve Forstall. What amazes me having been in or around this business for almost 30 years is that there just are not that many truly world class surfboard craftsmen that build it all from scratch including the paint job. The ones that are out there continually…(even in a world of popouts, Chinese made polys and stock production boards) create and impress and usually have lines waiting for their products. I can see one of the local fellas in town or Maka on one these. Buffalo would appreciate this one.


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That is nice but the pics need to be bigger. It was made right down the street from me, I guess

I could go look at it if I weren’t so lazy. More fun to make you re-post the pics.

Steve does good stuff!

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Interesting colour work.

I can see a Goanna in that ink blot.

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That is nice but the pics need to be bigger. It was made right down the street from me, I guess

I could go look at it if I weren’t so lazy. More fun to make you re-post the pics.

Steve does good stuff!

Hi Mike…I posted it over on surfermag.com also…it’s hard to match sways picture requirements when resizing them.

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I still can’t even post pics, so I shouldn’t talk.

Went to ERBB and looked. That’s trippy how the deck side shot makes it look 3D.

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i like it!

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I saw Steve this morning at Larry Pope’s place and told him you’d posted the board photos.

He told me about how he did the art, and I told him he’d better get ready to do more cuz that thing

looks sharp! Too bad the pics didn’t come up as good on sways as they did on the ERBB.

He also promised to keep surfing the next peak down the beach at our local, which I really appreciate.

While I’m out there ‘‘floundering around on a 5’11’’, as silly would say, the last thing I need is an 11’1’’

next to me.

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would it be uncool to say how he did the art?

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would it be uncool to say how he did the art?

Probably.

I didn’t get details anyway, just bits about the ‘‘tools’’ involved, and him doing it at home in his garage instead of up at the industrial park, and something about a refrigerator he has in his garage that held refreshments…

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would it be uncool to say how he did the art?

Probably.

I didn’t get details anyway, just bits about the ‘‘tools’’ involved, and him doing it at home in his garage instead of up at the industrial park, and something about a refrigerator he has in his garage that held refreshments…

Stevie has been doing that type of art for years…you should have seen the aussie aboringinal art he did on some boards out of our old factory.

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This is an 11’1’’ handshaped and hand painted ( not airbrushed ) by Steve Forstall. What amazes me having been in or around this business for almost 30 years is that there just are not that many truly world class surfboard craftsmen that build it all from scratch including the paint job. The ones that are out there continually…(even in a world of popouts, Chinese made polys and stock production boards) create and impress and usually have lines waiting for their products. I can see one of the local fellas in town or Maka on one these. Buffalo would appreciate this one.

Steve glasses too?

The board looks nice

Move the wide point 2 inches north and Buffalo might ride it. Keeping Makaha, Makaha

Otay

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This is an 11’1’’ handshaped and hand painted ( not airbrushed ) by Steve Forstall. What amazes me having been in or around this business for almost 30 years is that there just are not that many truly world class surfboard craftsmen that build it all from scratch including the paint job. The ones that are out there continually…(even in a world of popouts, Chinese made polys and stock production boards) create and impress and usually have lines waiting for their products. I can see one of the local fellas in town or Maka on one these. Buffalo would appreciate this one.

Steve glasses too?

The board looks nice

Move the wide point 2 inches north and Buffalo might ride it. Keeping Makaha, Makaha

Otay

Steve is one of the last of a dying breed that does it all from begining to end. Even designed and produced his own epoxy blanks until the low ballers with less quality put a dent in it. Local thing …not national.

I have a good pic of Buff and me somewhere. Great guy. Your probably right about the wide point.

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I shall never mock him again. He is in my hall of fame now.

Makes his blanks

Shapes his blanks

fins

glasses

sands

TOTAL PACKAGE!!!

RF can do all that stuff too.

otay

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I shall never mock him again. He is in my hall of fame now.

Makes his blanks

Shapes his blanks

fins

glasses

sands

TOTAL PACKAGE!!!

RF can do all that stuff too.

otay

And paints. His pinline work is exellent also. There are a few out there…but they are a dying breed. There are zero young shapers out there that learned to shape globs of foam and make art when those that have been shaping over 30 years are gone. It just does not exist.

Steve had to shape this board from numerous templates by using his trained eye. No trace job here.