Click on this and read the comments. Then discuss
http://instagram.com/p/c9ZeYGxg2Z/#
tomo_surfboards **The Clone Wars have begun!! Seems the V4 has tickled a certain fancy among the competition?!
"come jump in boys - the water is reallllly Nice " !!
L to R: the Tomo / @firewiresurfboards V4 . The @mayhemb3_mattbiolos 'weekend warrior (nice name) and the See-Eye Prototype.**
it gets even better w/ biolos’s’s response
http://instagram.com/mayhemb3_mattbiolos#
here’s 1 of 4. pretty rich!
The link didn't work for me, so I didn't get the whole story. But as far as I know, surfboard shapes are not proprietary, and I doubt if a patent or copyright on a surfboard shape could be enforced. I think its different with certain construction methodologies, I think that could be patented and enforced, but at a cost, of course. The lawyers always gotta get their pound of flesh =)
"I don’t copy your Wakeboard designs that every garage shaper on planet earth is making to seemingly punish all the friends and make them surf worse.
Kind of funny. I agree those wakeboards and pods make surfers surf worse. I disagree that every Garage shaper on the planet is making them.
I think that other than the tail, they all look like the Robert’s White Diamond.
I’ll come out and admit, that I’m still trying to copy a magic Mike Perry pintail single fin from the mid '70’s, a Jim Fuller twin fin from the late '70’s, and a Del Miller tri fin from the early '80’s. But with my age, even if I did copy it, I’m not good enough anymore to be able to tell.
Although I am not a fan of the whole wake-board/surfboard look myself,
at least Tomo’s designs are original in design and concept…
Cross-pollination or copying is all Matt Biolas knows.
Yeah he sells a lot of boards, not impressed.
I have yet to see anything original out of Biolas shaping room.
I’ve seen more original designs on this website than anything from the Lost camp.
From what I’ve seen surfboard wise, (and I’ve been doing surfboards professionally 30 years),
every Lost board is a copy of something done before.
Those who can’t innovate, just imitate.
And oh yeah, that tail of Tomo’s has been done before too.
I see subtle variations in all those tails. (yawn)
Al Bryne died last week, now there’s a legend. Some dude bitching about a tail? Sounds like a fashion designer. In fashion, you can’t patent a pattern. A surf outline probably falls in the pattern category.
I learned how to make homemade almond milk last weekend. Glad there’s no patent on making almond milk, because some dude will be bitching up a storm on instagram…lol.
…the fashionista’s are getting bitchy again !..(lol)…I’m over gimmick tails.
I have been working on a tail design for a couple of years now that many would say was an attempt to copy a Tomo. The original design looked nothing like a Tomo. But when I began to think about how to shape it, I realized it would be easier to make it angular rather than the original curved shape in order to get the exact features I want to include. While it may look a like a Tomo, the actual design has/had nothing to do with a Tomo.
The shapes above could well be copies to improve sales. But it is possible to have an angular tail shape that is unique and not derived from a Tomo.
...........Rounded pin tail...
not hex flex. super mex...you kissed my ex......
One day Stoney will build a complete.....one day....it's ok Stoney....I don't have an ex........I understand flex
and lame hype.........
And for the people that have glassed a few surfboards.........
If you bring me a surfboard that looks like Ruh-roh......I will tell you no......
I will tell you to pound sand........Gosh darn it...My Schoody Do hat is
...Lost
Sorry, no flex here …
Not all of us are as special as you Ray.
Can I wax your surfboard? Please?
BTW did Tomo copy Bill Johnson’s patented Stealth Tail:
http://www.google.com/patents/US20080287018
http://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/US20080287018A1/US20080287018A1-20081120-D00003.png
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Sorry, no flex here ...
Not all of us are as special as you Ray.
Can I wax your surfboard? Please?
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Who cut the tips off those perfectly good rocket fishes? I like the yellow one if it still had it’s tips.
Few are as special as Ray.
No doubt.
I surf this reef......somewhere south of Orange County.......mostly Kooky Stoney /Stingy types.....we all get along and have fun........until it gets good.......and I suck in big waves but I'm un-Kooky enough to get out of the way.....and I fix boards for all the local rippers....so they let me surf.
No one worth his salt rides a crazy tail surfboard in overhead surf.....no. ...this crazy tail stuff is for small waves and media hype days........I don't buy it...........Sponser a Pro and he will have everyone riding your design,,,,,,,did you see the CarbonTape on Kelly's boards??????
…my new can-opener tail may revolutionise how human beings relate to surfboards !
haaa’’ whats wrong with you yanks i cant even raise your temp anymore?
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not that i eva shaped those tails? i do remember seing a lot of swallow tails that i done in early eightys loking like that
after the kids dropped them on there tails haa’’ seems i missed a great design breakthrough.
what is this instagram thing anyway? can i google it help me out here stony w t f with all this modern
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Yeah, CIS is inlaying the carbon/glass patch underside on a lot of their teamlight EPS it looks like. Beef up that flex, help prevent a snapped board or two, or four in Slater’s case? Most of us will never need a patch like that, guys were getting pitted just fine in Tahiti in the 2000’s without tech fabric patches. Who knows I guess, don’t dog it until you try it I say.
I also saw some really condensed 5 fin pattern going on there, or maybe that was Nat Young’s setup. Anyway, looked mean.
nah f##k it i am staying on the ausie fence we keep showing you yanks everything (no respect)
stone brain king of google haaaa’’
cheers huie