you stylish bugger sharkcountry
you rock man 
Hey Paul what’s with all the writing on the board? Is that plain foam on the bottom or a skin? It’s really white. Gotta say that you’ve been a real inspiration for my brother and making compsands. I like the way you’re using contact cement to adhere cork to the foam. I think the flexibility and cushioning affect of the cork may be what keeps the board in good shape.
Lately, I’ve been making my boards with a round or round pin tail and I’m really happy with that tail shape. I like the outline of your board. I’m making my noses a little fuller, but the tails looks very similar. I’ve also been making the tail very hard down railed from about where you’d have the side fins all the way back. That’s how I remember boards from back in the 70’s were.
…I understand that single fin thingy due my board has a bonzer set up.
Thanks everyone.
gday sharkcountry. i feel the same way about you guys. you guys made so many . about 3 years back i made 3 boards. two were marko blown eps and the other was a tint poly. they were the last boards i made i felt i gotten what i wanted.the bottom of that board is straight molded eps with NO sealing i think the resin is kinetics with a polyester fill coat… i just gave one away to get a fella going on a short board with good float. the poly i sold as it was lovely. and i kept the two epoxys. a 6 6 and a 6 3. i wrote the stuff on it because i was feeling i heard a lot of stuff and done a lot of stuff but i dont really know what does what and the guy on the beach telling me what a deep single concave did. i thought he didnt really know and i was just guess really so i wrote all that shit on the bottom saying all the important elements i need and i understood.well f$ck me i got it right is time i surfed them both hard and i gave one away recently still mint and kept the 6 3. so i got a few more blanks now and im gunna refine the 6 3 into two boards. its too short in DOH i need a longer version and i also feel the rails could be thinnner shorter version on the in the small waves. i think the rounded pin is the best alround tail for heavy guys. and im looking forward to experiment with single fin surfing again as i learned and progressed on a horan winged fin and channel bottom. i also blow out fin boxes. but the glassed over fusion box in molded eps is solid. no problems and no water leaks at all in the foam. the two eps blanks i recently purchased US blanks foam i have to say im very dissapointed compared to molded eps. you can put your mouth up to molded eps and suck and get a vacuum pn your lips the US blanks you can suck air through the eps. im very dissapointed. i thought i was ordering MOLDED eps . so yes kintecs with a poly fill coat. the contacted cork and some carbon tape on the rails and i drive them onto the beach and chuck them round the work van…i see this board lasting another 5 or 6 years or more. is good yay! but love rounded pin . wide point forward . low entry. tail flip .single concave. fat rails and wide as you like. .
this was the other one
and the poly
rocker
The new marko foam is good. We used the first generation foam back around 2005 or so and then Jeff Johnson showed us some of the stuff they were developing after that. I scored 2 blanks a couple of years ago and built myself a 6-8 rounded pin quad last year. I was really digging that one, then I had a bad wipeout, landed on the fin cluster and broke 3 of the four boxes loose. One was missing. I’m still in the process of fixing that one. I’ll add a layer of glass over the tail to cover them and hopefully have a strong fix.
I’m mostly riding singles or quads these days, but I still have several thrusters.
Good one you to have made a really good board. I’ll stop making boards for a while when I have mine. I’m thinking it will be longer, somewhere between 7’ and 8’ to give me excellent paddling, but not too long to throw around.
Hey Reverb, sorry to have taken your thread off on a tangent.
…still we do not know if an small person can handle good a semi or gun board.
All previous examples are small boards or large boards and big guys.
Perhaps the “small person” should bulk up, stay on da beach or even better quit!
I kid, ah no pun intended.
Eh, what is the solution anyway?
Reverb, here in Hawaii there’s a lot of small guys are riding bigger semis and full guns making full on bottom turns and heavy cutbacks. Anyone 40 and over can do it, probably guys 30 and over, but for sure 40 and over. I’d say that the average height would be between 5-5 and 5-10.
A lot of smaller guys here ride a high performance longboard like a small board. Turning hard off the bottom, going vertical and off the top. Our waves are suited for that style of surfing.
Been riding this one since I busted my other go-to boards. It is 8’ x 20" x 2.5" thin pinched rails hard edges in the tail. Pics were taken while I was re-shaping an older board.
Ah, maybe I should say short, not small? We’re short, but not skinny.
yea bud!
Yeah Bud X 2. Powerful and stylish. Mike
Mostly empty this past Sunday afternoon, some game on TV :-) this was around 2PMHST must have been just about game time. Backyard PUPE 5’1 x 17 1/2 x 2 1/4 tomocopy
hi reverb i get you . im talking the same volume to weight ratios. that 6 3 has 45 liters or something close which is half my weight in volume. makes it harder to bury a rail. same thing
in fact say a 65 kilo guy riding a 6 10 by 2 1/4 at 33 liters is pretty similar volume to weight only much easier to bury the rail as the rails are a lot thinner. much harder to pump a fat rail for speed
…yes, but the outlines 6 10, 7 4, 8 2 you name it complicate more that bury of the rail; plus that you need some volume to make a board more than 7 4…
Bud, to paddle and to take off in that small board…no doubt that you are trained. I have a real problem now to use my small board due to my broken shoulder tendon.
So, do you trying to mention that is not necessary to ride guns in most cases; at least in normal large surf?
i dont think guns are neccesary in the size bud is riding. its solid size tho. i rekon the curvey outline is the go. i tried a few sleek indo gun style boards i found them tracky and not enough volume as an alrounder. shorter big guy shapes and funboards work better then guns in that size surf
…yes, of course; I m not talking about that size but may be Bud is doing kind of a statement; that 5 8 x 2 1/4 is an small board and that Haleiwa bottom turn is good (previous page); also Haleiwa is a complicated wave; so double that size you just have a solid wave that may be you can go with not so big board if you are trained like Bud.
Yes, trackyness is what I found in not so big boards for smaller guys.
May be trying to keep the length at minimum as possible to not thin the outline keep bulk all along a centre line area with thin rails and heavy rockered on tail, big side fins smaller on tail could be a design…
“sutherlands” about a week ago with size has pretty notorious current so I used this board backyard PUPE quad 6’2 x 18-1/2 x 2-1/4. No problem laying down a drawn out bottom turn. Where the photog situated hard to get bottom turn pics
of course the guys with the biggest boards sit further out and and have a lock down on the sets
