7’4" Vee Bottom
7’8" Vee Bottom
andreini goes way back to early santa barbara surfboard building and surfing.he’s been building boards consistently since the 60’s with a stint in hawaii back in the day.yes, he has a “regular” job, one in which allows him time and $ to continue building ALL kinds of boards. you should see his hot curl replicas-amazing!he built KP a balsa hull that is really bitchin’ too-it’s a neat feeling ride…
Matt-
What’s your #1 go-to hull (dims and bready description, if possible) that you ride out at the points in your neck of the woods?
I bet it’s his new 8’7" Liddle…
Jim
Wasn’t that KP’s?
YEAH!! it was ---- The KNUKLEHEAD wont give it back. Plus now it has Matts funk on it, his nickname is PIGPEN.
yeah, but the pigpen board is the go to ripper for now.surfs and feels much shorter…
I have the same problem with my buddy Brad. I shaped a hull like board years ago, he borrowed it and I never really saw it again in ridable condition.
actaully it was a one-off board for kp and i to give a test run, which i have.just because it says “for kirk putnam” on the bottom along stringer doesn’t mean anything.i think greg just ran out of room to write in the whole sentence:“for kirk putnam to give to matt so he can test ride it for us.” 8’7" x 18 x 23 x 14 and 7/8 x 3 bladed out.
Classic!
I like the part:
“just because it says “for kirk putnam” on the bottom along the stringer doesn’t mean anything…”
Funny stuff!
Jim
the important thing is is that it is being ridden and tested out.had it stayed with kp, well, let’s just say it’s getting harder and harder for him to get out of the ol" rockin’ chair!!!
FACIAL BURN!
Hilber, Andreini, Spence, Liddle, Spence.
siiick - totally dreamy - most respectable
Mollusk SF has new Andreini’s up for sale - beautifuls
That’s what I need to do with mine. They are taking up a lot of garage space.
Jim
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Pointdog-
Beauties you have hanging there. Which one is your favorite? I ask because I need all the input I can get- I’m in the market for a sub 7’ stubbie.
My favorite wave here is a Trestles-like wave, but a tad bit more bowly. This thread makes me homesick for the points in SoCal.
BTW, you have quite a few steamers to wear there, too.
after 1st viewing 1 CA DAY every stoked surfer wanted to get a board just like Jimmy Gamboa was riding on that killer off shore day in his segment of the movie. what the hell was that thing? who shaped it? who is Greg Liddle? he’s the marked innovator of the “modified transitional displacement hull”. the man that made the original Death Board for Steve Krajewski that Kirk Putnam had Klaus Jones replicate for Jimmy to ride during the filming of the flick. here’s a question: who knew that board wasn’t shaped by Liddle? i didn’t and you probably didn’t either. the Surfer’s Journal overlooked that micro detail somehow - hmmm, thanks Ed. Klaus has been faulted for being a plagiarist ? a copyist ? how can that be anything but a compliment given the accomplished “xerox” goal? you can’t have it both ways, ask a man to do somethimg then ostracize him for a job too well done. how many shapers could pull that off? it’s near impossible to keep up with Greg Liddle when it comes to shaping one of his surfboards, he is truly an original who’s ingenuity and craftsmanship surpass our written language’s capacity to express the joy of glide. keeping up with Mr Jones isn’t easy at all either, he’s no slouch and that’s why KP asked him to do the duping. if you want a board made by Klaus Jones, first you have to find him. it seems he gets buried at every turn just a like the rails on Jimmy’s Stub in 1 CA DAY
WHY??? Klaus can’t say
plagiarism
noun
the practice of taking someone else’s work or ideas and passing them off as one’s own
JUDAS PRIEST ! this is a bogus notion in the construction (and reconstruction) of custom surfcraft - how many thrusters are surfed on every day? how pissed is Simon Anderson about it?
unlike a typical Greg Liddle pointbreaker, Klaus’ boards are for fit kids like the ones in high school, like he and KP were together back in the day. if GL’s new shapes are 6’ or below with wide tails we’ll all ponder
Q: “who’s copying who NOW?” - but that’s a loaded question! the question should go “who’s influenced who?”
A: surfers’ desires have influenced shapers as much as one shaper has influenced another. that’s exactly how it should be with any custom order and how it was when Greg started this with Steve. it’s how it was with Alex Kopps when he pulled out that 1/2 shaped “magic carpet” blank just before Klaus Jones foiled the fuck out of it in an alley without proper lighting, without a planer, on sawhorses, and in front of a small crowd!
i can’t wait to surf my Klaus Jones Siglo! i have a feeling it’s to going to be as fun as any other board i’ve ever ridden
Muchas Gracias y Vaya con Dios Swaylock’s!
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the article did say gamboa was on a kj
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it was NOT made for the movie.
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there was a reason why kp had kj make it for jimmy- there is a reason why they couldn’t get one from elsewhere.
4.why did jimmy refer to liddle and not kj in the movie, even though he’s on a kj?
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the wide tailed short boards are from liddle’s personal archive of templates from 30 plus years ago.
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the boards you refer to for fit young guys are just like they were made 30 plus years ago by somebody else…