We will give it a brief rest during the holidays then Greg Loehr will join us for two weeks starting January 12.
Start saving your questions about east coast surfing history, epoxy, and the origin of the “chip”.
In February Bill Barnfield will join us for a few weeks. He is presently tied up with the winter season on the North Shore.
We have a couple of surprises coming in the Spring
All the best
Thanks Mr. Tate, that’s fantastic good news - you have really run with this concept, I think we all owe you a huge debt for bringing this to fruition, and helping to keep Swaylocks on a very positive track.
Just a reminder to everyone that the “hot seat” thread has a little stricter protocol than other threads, because some of these shapers wouldn’t want to do it otherwise. The shaper is the guest of honor, so no flaming, and we can all ask questions, but the guy in the hot seat does the answering.
And for the record, I hope you can also get Greg Griffin on that hot seat list too, its been nice having him post up more, lately.
Greg-The first two have been awesome, and the lineup is looking great too. Thanks for putting this together.-J
this thing is getting pretty cool…
Randy Cone was on Swaylock’s briefly…
I believe I’ve only seen a few comments from him. I got the impression that he’s less than stoked on the blowhards here. hahaha
Randy Cone
Gary Linden
Stretch
Gregg Griffin
I would love to pick ALL of their brains.
The hot seat thing might be the best thing on Sways since I’ve been goofing off here. So, so cool. Mike
I’m going to have to buy some more pencils, been taking lots of notes.
Awesome having the knowledge base that’s willing to share.
Thank you
thanks for the reminder - hope everyone is copy/pasting info and pics they want to save. Systems crash or get modified, and stuff disappears. Nothing on the internet is forever, unless its something embarrassing that you don’t want to be there haha ;-D
Greg Loehr, another fine choice.
Nice line up of pros to date.
I will stay tuned**…**
Alright, Mr. Epoxy.
Finally Sways has some board builders sharing their knowedge of practical applications not a bunch of internet knowedge blow-hards.
Way too much “I’ll tell you how it’s done” non-production nonsense.
Looking forward to it.
Yep, this has been awesome.
Loved the discussion of fins.
I have always been impressed by the home builders here .
A real design forum .
Be nice to add mike Daniel and Bruce fowler to the list as well, if they would be willing.
Maybe limit a new Hotseat contestant to every 3 months.
It would give all people a chance to join in on interesting topics and a chance for the concept to spread out over a few years.
Otherwise we could quickly run out of Wise Men to host these threads.
It would be nice to kick off each hot seat guest with a short bio. I guess I’m getting old, because I only remember bits and pieces of Greg’s past. I consider him the grandfather of modern epoxy and know he started in Florida, then some of it gets fuzzy. sucks getting old 
Thanks Dwight. We did that with George. Should have done that with Barry. Will do that with GL.
And I do agree that we should space them out a bit.
…in my opinion (and seems that belong to a very small % here…) we should invite the pioneers!!! that still remain or really break through “a bit more new” ones (like Aussie´Mc Coy) or guys like Pleskunas (the ideas out of necessity and the industry) or hard workers board builders like J Dunlop (what s real board building is not talking about how many shapes I did but do nothing…or trying to sell a product) both from US or 60s era “different” ones like H Naldinho from Brazil (that had one of the first machines back in the 60s), etc
I mean, reading what was exposed in the +1 thread, talking about the fins for example, I read what normally most of us shapers and designers known as the basic knowledge…but with a technical lingo; reminds me B Barnfield talking a lot about several things and do not synthesize and seems that this work perfectly good to fit the legend status.
Also, except BarrySnyder or BB I do not see any of the professional ones helping here with many questions that the rookies have…
Of course saying this is to put many of you in discrepancy but I think that we do not have any new design and will not have one after we have a new material; that could be the only thing to change the SHAPE of a board or the way we see fins, etc. What s the point to do the same or similar shape but instead of PU/fiberglass, with PS and PVC or whatever?
A new material should be some plastic/synthetic one due to all other materials are from nature but still see the cars with the same (or worst quality) rubber in the wheels (and with wheels at all!) same metals; the houses are all the same; except the breakthrough with the way that XX skyscrapers started, all is the same with couple of more plastic materials.
Take for example the R Burch video posted in the +1 thread, a good wave, difficult one, not so perfect in some conditions; the type of waves that you normally find in those destinations; the board do not perform so incredible in most of the rides (and bear in mind that the clips WAS edited…) but he can control it due to he s a very good surfer and have more waves surfed than you and me so where s the breakthrough? yes, we can chat for hours about the fin here or there etc but it s all the same; put other good shape under his feet and the guy would perform the same or very similar.
So, the bottom line for me, is that I prefer to read what one of the pioneers have to say regarding culture, sport, industry development or the way that the ideas emerged in some minds or real board building than theory galore that do not produce too much except selling.
Reverb, Thx for the suggestions. I’ll do my best.
Really enjoying the shapers hot seat, and props, Greg, for putting this together.
From cutting edge to lineage cuts, there’s church goers here for every religion.
So the more the betta, almost as good as having each of them shape you a board
Now that would be something…
This has turned out to be a great idea- props Huck!
I suggest these “hot seats” be made into a catagory of Stickies for easy referral and posterity.
Send thanks to Greg Tate and suggestions to mike paler 