Well, what you say? 
so, I wonder if this design is functional on a shortboard…any ideas? Are the rails without curves too?
Saw this in one of the new mags the other day;I swear this was my idea a few years ago,but I never got around to doing it! I wanted to cut out a template like this,build the board and ride it to prove that it’ll ride fine. People dwell on too much technicality in shape design,especially in outlines & curves. Looks like Walden had the balls to actually do it!
LOL! they should call it the “coffin model” designed for the dead clogging up the line up!
Velzy had a model with the hips cut at an angle. He has been quoted as saying that people who rode it liked the way it turned. I don’t remember what he called it. There are pics of it somewhere in a magazine.
That was called the Bump. The photo is Surfer’s Journal, volume 3, number 3 on page 45. The caption under the photo of the Bump reads: “I started shaping Bumps in '56-57 as a takeoff on the Pig. I figured the curve caused drag. The minute I put the bump in they just snap turned. Yater wouldn’t even shape 'em - too ugly”
a board must look good under your arm or it is not worth having . Just gimmick!
It just needs a sharp swallow tail now…
“a board must look good under your arm or it is not worth having. Just gimmick!” That applies to a boards rider, too: over 30, clumsy, balding with a beer gut, marginal water skills. If that human doesnt look really good, it`s not worth having!
“Right you are, Ken!”
Whether it is functional or gimmick, I applaud Walden for throwing something out there that hasn’t been seen before. I would really enjoy seeing more bizarre stuff being submitted for approval.
I just got inspired by this thread; I’m gonna make an ironing board template! Seriously, an ironing board outline on the right blank would be cool.Might even airbrush an iron and shirt or something on it.
lf you cant surf you could take a DUNNY door out and it would’nt make a difference, what l dont understand is whether or not this guy is having a dig at the people who can surf or whether he is not good enough to understand why boards do have curves. KR http://groups.msn.com/MyKRSurf/krcomweb.msnw
Are you saying Marcel Duchamp’s Foutain?
Duchamp’s most notorious readymade was a manufactured urinal entitled Fountain. Conceived for a show promoting avant-garde art, Fountain took advantage of the show’s lack of juried panels, which invariably excluded forward-looking artists. Under a pseudonym, “R. Mutt,” Duchamp submitted Fountain. It was a prank, meant to taunt his avant-garde peers. For some of the show’s organizers this was too much — was the artist equating modern art with a toilet fixture? 
Looks upside down, and without plumbing it might soak and stain the delicate leather shoes of the critics…witty
The Velzy “BUMP” was a marketing ploy to sell new models. The board is guarenteed to spin out on almost any size wave. This Coffin Model looks like it would ride even worse than a “BUMP” of the late fifties. A real quantum leap BACKWARDS!
I thought you get bumped off before you ride the coffin.
has anyone out in swaylock-world ever riden a coffin board? I couldn’t care less about what a board looks like as long as it works, but, when I find something that works (for my style of riding and the type of waves i ride) i store that template, rocker, foil etc in my sub-conscious and evaluate other boards within my paradigm of ‘good boards’. i think most surfers do that. it’s gonna be hard to visualise a coffin board performing unless u’ve ridden something similar before. for me it’s function not fashion that determines what i ride.