I have been off the radar since the demise of Clark Foam, but I have been very busy also.
Pacifica Foam in Oceanside has had me doing double time testing the pours they have been doing and designing new plugs for the line-up of new blanks.
At this time in the production are a 6’5" general usage blank that can yield about anything but a fish. The 6’8" Rusty that was built from his original master from Clark.
A 6’8" true fish that was taken from the 6’9’and widened up in the nose and had the rocker revamped to be more fish friendly.
The 7’9" Eaton is also into production.
A 9’9" longboard modeled after the 10’1" Yater.
Pacifica’s business group bought Clarks wood mill and all of the stringer wood inventory. Also along with this is the entire Clark foam library of rockers, private and std.
They are offering custom glue-ups and rockers for anyones blanks.
seeing and being awesome are 2 different things. i have seen great looking new blanks that when left in the sun for a couple of hours have yellowed and shriveled up to turds. not saying pacifica blanks are turds. not saying pacifica blanks are turds saying it twice as so nobody goes crazy
Oh, believe me, when they first started pouring, they would bring me a half dozen a day to stringer up.
Some were horrid and after being split, it was evident not to waste the money installing a stringer. I left them behind my shaping room, for God knows what reason, but after being exposed to sunlight for a few months, started to shrink, then distort like some kind a foam pretzel.
Gordon Clark had told Flippy Hoffman, “you wait and see how much trouble they’ll have”, you know it ain’t easy.
The 9’9" plug got finished yesterday, now to make a mold for it