3 Custom ordered boards with my custom made G-10 fins for each board made by myself.
First is a 6’4" x 21 1/4" x 2 7/8" 5-fin fish for Marcos on the east coast.
Next is a 6’2" x 19 5/8" x 2 1/2" 4-fin for Roy on the east coast.
Last is a 5’9" x 20 1/4" x 2 1/2" 5-fin fish for Dean on Maui.
awesome boards, and great glassing too.
The 2nd one at 2 1/2" looks thicker than the first at 2 7/8". Thickness carried out closer to the rails?
I like the last one. Most fish you see made for the islands stick with the San Diego-style flat rocker but pull in the nose a little so it doesn’t catch. Looks like you did the opposite and kept the full outline but added about an inch of nose rocker.
Ever put a round tail on those wide 5-fin templates? Or a diamond? Or does extra volume back there lift the tail too much, especially in combination with the fins…
Thanks for putting them up.
Thanks for sharing
Are your rear side fins double foiled or flat sided?
Christian
What i post are whats ordered by the customers.
A round tail would make the fin placements more drivey and may need to be adjusted.
If one was ordered i would make it.
A diamond tail would work well and may change how the fins feel allitle. They are adjustable and easy to tune.
These 2 fishes do have more nose rocker as a i feel it helps give a safer feeling when catching the wave. From center to 1’ back from the nose its low , and from 1’ back to the tip it is increased 1/2" . It keeps some of the nose out while pressing forward to catch the wave . Similar to a shortboard.
The rear fins are single side foils on the rail fins and double foiled in the center.
I sell these boards at about 100.00 more than a Anacapa in the store .
Completey custom for you and your spot. With the best glassing.
I think Anacapa will sell more.
Some pictures for Benny
the cops on segways made me laugh.
and i dig the profiler.
i just noticed the little red and blue lights on 'em. i can just picture one of those guys (or girls) chasing after me down the street. i’d probably laugh so hard i’d shit myself in mid-run…
deh look little bit da-kine…
ha ha… yeah thats crazy, i would refuse to ride one of those…especially wearing a badge…they might as well be chasing people on pogo-sticks, wearing a clown nose…
boards & fins look good though… but, seems like they would really want to hold a straight line, especially with all 3 rear fins pretty much in a row…
sometimes we get orders for twins with a trailer fin, the usual feed back is the trailer makes it too tight. duh, and that pretty much defeats the purpose of the twin feel, so nobody really ever uses the trailer(even though its only 3" something deep)
so, i allways tell people they’ll probably never really use it, when they ask for the trailer…oh well, thats why removable fins are good…dont like it, take it out…
You can do a search here and on Surfermag and find that every customer says how fast and loose these 5-fins are. This is what counts , not what the pros ride. In the last 3 years i have had one dud, but i was not able to work with that person and it was made at T&C without my control over it. My twins need no trailer and with it its no longer a twin.
the first one. I assume you painted on the foam,top and bottom. Then lam.
How do you do your cutlap when you lam the bottom? Does the tape ( that you had put on the deck)pull up the paint?..or does them paint stay.
I’ve kept my paint away from cutlap tape in fear of this.
I can personally vouch for griff’s “customs” and I stress “customs” because they are unlike anything else you’ll get anywhere else unless you personally know the shaper and the shaper is concerned about the entire design than just the shape. Other than Bert, I don’t know of any other shaper who will spend the hours to hand foil custom G10 fins with adjustable FCS tabs and mark the placement positions on your board especially for a first time client he doesn’t even know or will possibly never meet. And if you don’t like it he’ll fix it or make you something else… who the hell does that anymore… An better yet he dares his customers to publish there feedback to the rest of the world good or bad just tell himn how it went thats all…
I have a short fat stubby 5 fin that rides better than a fun board or potato chip in anything from ankle slop to over head ptiching hollow and we’ve demoed his twin that was a fast if not faster than a quad and just a positive as a thruster with no typical “twin” handups. If it wasn’t just a tad too small it would be in my quiver too…
These are the utmost state of the art boards for everyday guys that are at the high end of the board design spectrum… All because again I’ll stress they are truly “custom” and bets of all they’ll cost you half the cost of one of these fancy composites.
I’m sure there many more unbelievable craftsmen like him or Bert out there in your local community who can do the same and those are the folks we should be doing our best to support in these dire times while we play around here trying to make ourselves believe that that our own stuff is just as good so we can be labeled a surfboard shaper too…(sorry couldn’t resist).
One day when my ultra bi-polar mentality(sometimes mislabeled as aloha) over takes my common sense, I’ll just give away my griff fish to some lucky true swaylocker so they can find out for themselves. But I just don’t seem to see that deserving person out there yet…
hmmm, guess youve got the placement just right apparently…looks like you’ve got the 3 trailing fins set straight and double foiled ,correct?
ill have to try one out sometime.
hmmm, guess youve got the placement just right apparently…looks like you’ve got the 3 trailing fins set straight and double foiled ,correct?
ill have to try one out sometime.
the outside rear fins are toed-in a bit and single-foiled, methinks.
You thinks right, outside fins toed at 1/8" in 4 1/2" run and single side foils . Middle fin double side foil. You can change the toe in and it will work slightly different and this is the design at this point.
Here are pictures of Oneula’s board with a polished fine sand finish.
This first guy in line is Stewart Ferriman from Makaha. I can say this with confidence, he is in the top 3 best surfing cops anywhere… Charges and absolutely shreads… He cut his teeth competing with the best in Hawaii and last season I saw him going vert and consistently pulling off critical turns in the pit at double overhead Haleiwa… He is ALWAYS pulling special duty at the Triple Crown contest etc… Anything to be near the ocean! The guy is a solid surfer who has keen wave sense on the North Shore… Very mellow, cool guy too… Funny scooter though!
They should have some fun while seeing the not so pretty side of life daily.
He said he rode boards from Cino when i talked to him.