at that price I better be able to teleport to wherever I want to surf.
I'd be more likely to buy if it came with a Day-Glo Orange wet suit........
I figured it out…He was on safari in mexico and forgot about the exchange rate…he must have posted it in pesos.
Hey wait a minute, I thought Roy built the fastest boards on the water…
How is that kneeboarder going so far ahead, cutting back, and then speeding off again? Must be an illusion, no way is he going faster than Roy.
Let's not forget the restored Simmons sandwich that belonged to James Aurness which sold for $40,000.
http://www.hawaiiansurfauction.com/peekoftheweek/peekoftheweek22.html
I didn’t…yet. speaking of Roy, Air New Zealand has a crazy deal right now, check it out. I’m seriously thinking about pulling the trigger. I wonder what the waves are like there this time of year?
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I'd be more likely to buy if it came with a Day-Glo Orange wet suit........
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You forgot the most important item...an orange helmet too.
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Slightly cheaper, still overpriced but from a more renowned shaper :
http://www.evolutionsurf.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=ESS&Product_Code=BLS100&Category_Code=BLS
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I went to ebay to get an idea of how much I might sell my "Giant Squid" for. It's over a year now that it's just sitting here. I've been tempted to wax it up but then think I'd be better off selling it to fund some new projects. So I go to ebay looking for prices, to see what's selling for the amount I'd like to get for my board and came across that. Now I'm confused. I think my board's better looking and probably more functional, so I should ask...$40,000???
BTW I checked out the evolution stuff, they have plain old t-shirts there for $120 !!!!! What's wrong with me? I've been paying only $10-$25 for tees ( and feeling I'm getting ripped off).
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From now on all boards should have a minimum price. They should all start at $40,000.
I have one for $60.000. The paddle is an extra $5,000
I looked around a bit and am quite certain that Wayne Lynch has absolutely NO connection to the Evolution brand, anymore. Any surfboards which are currently being designed or shaped by him do not have an Evolution label.
personally I don't see the difference between this guy charging $10,000 for one of his handshapes and what Roy's trying to maket himself as.
http://www.hawaiibc.com/surf.htm
but you don't see anyone on any surfing webisites making jokes about what he's doing or charging for his wood slabs
What these guys are doing is defining whatever market they want to serve and setting the bar on price then waiting to see the reaction.
its all subjective as to what people will pay for something. Its perceived versus actual value.
The fact that Roy gets all this free publicity among the masses(Engaget is propably read by folks like Gates, Wozniak and others like them) who are not stuck in this closed off private world of "being cool" surfdom means that there's probably someone out there buying these things for some other purpose than using them how such certain groups think they should be used.
Hell all Roy has to do is sell a couple of these collector items a year and he's beaten out 80% of surfdomnites who think they know how to make them better than Roy.
Actually artist Marc Newson auctioned off a nickle plated Brewer shaped 5' tow-in board at Sotheby's for $220,000.00 so he's got roy well beat at $44,000 a board foot versus Roy's $2083 a board foot. So Roy's board is a steal!
http://most-expensive.net/surfboard
I know folks who wouldn't blink to bid $25,000 in an auction for a rare bottle of port or cognac and then throw a $50,000 celebration for select friends just to drink it all. These are the same folks who have no qualms of spending $35,000-$50,000 every 5-10 years buying the latest top of the line Mercedes, BMW, Audi or what ever for no really good reason other than to have one. Same folks who'll pay $25,000 for a custom wood door from this company: http://www.haleiwasurfboards.com/doorswindows.html for their multimillion dollar mansions on the ridge at Hawaii Loa or Diamondhead or Portlock.
or how about those geeks that flew halfway around the world to Silicon valley to get the chance to own the first all electric $100,000 supercar(Tesla)
Actually I believe there's a guy here in Hawaii building a $38,000 surfboard made from some super rare, sacred, and exotic New Zealand Kauri root burl root wood.
"The Ancient Kauri logs being extracted from the north island of New Zealand today are radiocarbon dated at 45 to 50,000 years old - and older. At 50,000 years old, this wood pre-dates the migration of Neanderthals, the arrival of Homo Sapiens, the hunt for mammoths and all the cave paintings in Europe. These trees were already buried for 30,000 years before the onset of the Earth's last Ice Age! The Ancient Kauri logs are typically extracted from areas that were at one time bogs, but are now firmer and drier. The scientific name for Kauri is Agathis Australis. This species belongs to the Araucariaceae plant family, which means the trees are Conifers (soft wood), so they produce cones instead of flowers for reproduction. The oldest fossil of New Zealand Kauri has been dated to 175 million years old, making Kauri among the largest and largest species of trees in the world. Kauri trees do still grow in New Zealand today, but these living, growing behemoths are now protect4ed by law."
As an hobbiest penturner I can tell you that a 3/4"x5" pen blank of Ancient Kauri might run you up to $40 if you can get it. So if you glued enough of those little chucks of wood togethor to shape one of roy's 12'x3"x22" monsters it would run you around $65,000 just for all the little Kauri wood pen blanks to glue up into a blank.
Meanwhile a 5" piece of exotic wood finished with another $40 worth of a high end fountain pen kit could get you close to $250-$500 from a person who collects pens. And it all would take you about a 30 - 60 minutes to complete.
so how about a $425.00 Pen?
http://www.pianki.com/Caran-dAche-Varius-Metwood-Silver-Plated-Rhodium-Coated-Pens_p_983.html
or a $23,000.00 Pen?
or a $42,000.00 Pen?
http://www.powerfulpens.com/visconti-hrh-divine-proportion.html
Again somethings value is all relative and subjective
Roy has just lost his crown.
And yet he continues to advertise his boards.
http://most-expensive.net/surfboard#comment-201810
His tactics is now different:
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The Roy Stewart Method
Planet surf's most advanced wooden surfboard construction system, invented in 1994 for functional hull flexibility and a low centre of gravity. Includes the 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 layer variants
I think Jim Phillips is/was shaping the Evolution balsa guns.
IMO it’s nothing that a decent orthodontist couldn’t fix " )
at 7 layers, the crash helmet eventually makes a lot of sense hehe
cheers,
Not cool atacking a man when he can’t defend himself. Let him speak or leave him alone.
Deleting double post even though it deserves to be said twice.
hi squaly, totally agree with you. you’re very much aware of what’s going on at T2S given my repeated reminders to him to follow forum rules and behave as decently as everyone else, and if the spoofing-up of what he does to others offends you, mea culpa. he certainly took offense at the police photo i linked here and asked that i remove it, which i did, replacing it with his own which took me some time to figure out where i first saw it. i certainly don’t need the notoriety of having to be the wiseass who takes the effort to make him realize the damage he’s doing when he’s aggravating other forum members for whatever reason.
at any rate someone here was kind enough to send me a link to another forum where a lot of decent guys were practically begging him back in 2008 to behave-- in more elegant language, with better logic-- with the same result. had i joined those other forums back when i signed up here and at T2S, i would’ve known better where things stood : he has a reason for being, IMO no one will ever understand why he’s that way, no matter how hard we may try. such is life
cheers,
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Squalyboy, just by your website we can now see why you defend him.
Why don't you defend those he attacks too?
Any abuse or ridicule “he” gets is his own doing. If he knew how to converse with others in a rational way, and did not make outrageous and unfounded claims, folks might cut him more slack. As it is, he’s a laughingstock.
My, my, that's a nasty cut.
My mother always said not to play with swords.
This topic needs to be updated.
The exclusive Baron is one of the most expensive luxury surfboards on planet Earth at US$528,000
http://olosurfer-woodensurfboardsatpipeline.blogspot.com/2010/04/baron-12-foot-paulownia-wooden.html