what was your guys’s first board that you bought and the first board that you shaped? what did you guys think of it (them)?
The first board I bought was a Stewart Ted Robinson model. Sadly snapped it one day during a solid six foot winter swell in Newport. It was great for me then, although I won’t ride a tri-fin longboard anymore. But it worked alright for beachbreak since it was light (hence it was also structurally weak and snapped). The first board I shaped has just been completed. 10’2" Walker blank, yieding a 9’10" experiment of a board. Extremely long and deep nose concave, rolled belly and very slight vee out the tail. Beveled up rails in the nose, 50/50 for the rest of the board. Extremely flat nose rocker, extremely kicked tail. Glassing it this weekend hopefully, so I’ll update how it rides once I can ride it.
First board that was actually mine was a 6’1" Miller I got at Norther Lights. It was dinged up but I was 11 and thought it was the coolest ripstick ever. The board became cursed when a small great white knocked me off it at Salmon Creek and scared me out of the water for a few years, my brothers friends got all stoned and burned the board to ward off whitey (sooo stupid by the way and very un eco friendly)
First board I actually just finished not long ago and I actually like it, a little thick in the tail and I am going to reset the fins but it works pretty good
first board i ever owned i bought at a garage sale for like 20 bucks, it was an old 6’2 ocean atlantic design from the late 60’s. with a yellow deck a green bottom and this real raked out purple fin. the board is in real good condition to this day. i am only the second owner of the board actualy. i love that board its a tank though
the first board i shaped was a 7’10 mini log double ender. flat bottom with not a lot of nose rocker, which was a design flaw nose got to skinny and it snapped when my ex girlfriend loaned it out to some guy without asking me. the board has a fair amount of tail rocker and 50-50 rails and a single fin. its an all around cocoa beach board. it catches anything from knee high mush burgers to over head glass.
i ended up fixing the board about a year ago with some great stuff foam and some sealer. it looks all right but it was a serious break in the first 10 inches of the nose. when i first saw it after it broke it brought a tear to my eye, to this day i cant look at the girl without getting really pissed.
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what was your guys’s first board that you bought and the first board that you shaped? what did you guys think of it (them)?
…WHEN I find the photos Yerba, you’ll probably crap yourself laughing…all the pros here however will probably cry at such CARNAGE !!
Either way, I was only ten at the time…and thought it was the coolest thing I’d ever actually owned [and , apart from my soccer ball, it probably WAS , at that stage !]
My first [mis] shape there was / is NO excuse for whatsoever…I’ll post it [when I find it again , that is !] … only so you can have a really good laugh !!
ben
First board I ever owned was a 6’4" egg I bought off the front yard of some guy in OB, San Diego. He had about 15 boards laying around. I have no idea who built it. Good board to learn on. First board I built was a 7’6" rounded pin thruster. Gave it to my brother. Mike
First one I bought was a (used) 6’1" Becker single fin with yellow & blue rails. It looked soooo great with my aqua & gray body glove suit, circa 1982.
The first board I shaped was an attempt to copy a train wreck of a Farrely V-bottom I had & loved. I was about 16. The copy was rediculous. I got a rejected blank from a shaper, shaped it with a surform and a coping saw, faired out the gouges with bondo, glassed it with cloth & resin from Kragen. Sailboard finbox & fin. So embarrassing. It sucked water immediately. Eventually, my parents split up, sold the little house near the coast, and I abandoned a few boards there along with the memories. That board was easy to let go.
Technacly my first board was a red single…and yellow potato chip… but they were my dads and got sold so I don’t remember much of them… Then the first one I bought was a 7’ funshape that I was thinking would work well in summer mush, and would turn better than a longboard, but I rode longboards that turned much better… I think its I’m not good friends with thrusters, but I built a twinnie that works much better, even though it’s a foot shorter.