My new **** (f word deleted)

PARENTAL ADVISORY
contains scenes of bad glassing
and hideous paintjobs

Thought you might fancy a peek at my latest,

6’6"x23.75"x3"

… smells like fish.


Perhaps a little of it’s ancestry might be informative.
For the last five years I have been riding this,


It’s a 6’6" fishy thing I reshaped from an old black and yellow longboard you might remember,

I loved that thing, it went through a few incarnations, a testbed for whacked out ideas really,


But eventually it met its nemesis, in the form of a closeout tube (they still count) on a shallow reef,

snapped it right in half and ripped the leash plug right out.

Luckily, I had something waiting in the wings,

This I hacked down from a fat 7’4" thruster that got a completely delammed bottom on the flight back from NZ.


Just stripped the bottom and lopped a foot offa the tail.

I gave it a fair outing at Ric’s Stag weekend down at Sennen… and I like!
It’s a different kettle of fish from the old one, looser at the expense of some down-the-line rocketshippery, but I think I will learn to love it.

And I’m grinding up a bunch of weird fins to try on it… hehehehehehehehe.

Hey man,

More fin/teeth than a shark! I love it...

You are having fun!

Josh

www.joshdowlingshape.com

recycled blanks, innumerable fin setups, sketchy art jobs? chipfish will be stoked!

Does my pickled fish (Sept '04) predate his much tortured Prawn? (the forum search engine is about as much use as a chocolate teapot).

Not that it matters a damn!

 

Hey i love how your boards look. But do they ride well? It seems like it would be fun riding something like that

If you were in my area, I'd give you a couple of blanks! 

 

Sickdog