I got 2 weeks ago my new baby .9’2" nr04 , J.tudor surfboard.Its the finest longboard i have ever had for classic longboarding.It feels like soft butter,every time i cut.It nose rides unbelievable.The details in craftsmanship is mindboggling.I am a broke motherf…, and now i am more broke after adquiring the new baby,and i tell you something, its worth every penny, i would go for it again,anytime.
haaa…“Get Smart” was awesome…i would watch all the reruns it on Nick at Nite when i was about 9 years old. “from chaos comes clarity”, however, is a line from a song by 311…and i dig it. if you’re over 25, you’re long before its time.
no…the NR04 is one of JT’s new designs for this year. the plan shape is still very reminiscent of a 60s-era noserider, but it’s a little more tucked in in the tail and has a lot more tail rocker. it’s a square tail, but not as wide as the Nuuhiwa and it also has a deep nose concave at about 1/2".
Thanks for the info. I like the Nuuhiwa model but the ones I’ve seen are a bit too thick for my liking. I may just shape something similar or wait till the 04 makes it way over here.
I just picked up a 9’6 triple stringer David Nuuhiwa Noserider II…at first i thought it was a bit thick, but now I absolutely love it. Wrap fives are so solid, it’s not even funny. It does tend to work better in cleaner surf than onshore chunkiness, probably due to the extreme concave in the nose, but once I found the sweet spots, it really turned on.
Compared to my friend’s 9’6 Classic Pin, I don’t think it’s necessarily thicker, it’s more that they have taken the thickness all the way out to rail, as opossed to tapering from the stringer and leaving a slightly domed deck. Nose and tail are foiled much thinner. Great resin work and glass from Channin (not to mention shipping).
I took some rough measurements…take them with a grain of salt:
9’6
18.5 nose
23.25 width
17 tail
3.25 thick
10.5 fin
nose concave is about 45 inches long and about 1 inch deep
I also have a 9’0 JT Diamond T, which is another great board.
The only thing that is saving me right now is the time-gap when it comes to communicating with Malcolm Campbell…otherwise I would I have ordered a Bonzer by now
But those Mandala quads keep catching my eye…
(financial ruin)
PS
Most of the boards are on a pretty good rotatation, rode the 5’8 mandala twin keel today, clean chest high lines this morning, and head high to OH drops on the sets this evening, slightly chunky but super fun.
Thanks for posting the pics…Definitely a beautiful board. I’ve been it a bit of a dilemma lately. Although I shape my own boards I’ve come across two boards that have hit some nerve and got me thinking about getting one of them. The first is a JT Nuuhiwa II and the other is a 6’1" Safari twin fin shaped by none other than Spider Murphy of South Africa. It’s a new replica of what looks like a board I remember Shaun Tomson riding at one of the Op Pro meets in the early 80’s. Somehow a batch of Spider shapes have ended up here in Hawaii at Classic Surfboards just outside of Waikiki. It’s a tiny little shop that sells their own boards and has a lot of new and used boards on consignment. They always seem to have something interesting in there. I’ll stop by to say hi and see some board I’d forgotten about in the rack that I havent seen for ages, a totally cool shop.
