welcome back josh !
this place has been boring without your sprays
GREAT to have you back
when al merrick starts making “Firewire” style boards for kelly ,
then nev will REALLY be regretting things .
but if the firewire boards are not available for retail in australian surf shops soon , then al and others will step into our market …that’s my prediction , anyway . For what it’s worth
time will tell , eh ?!
cheers
ben
Fark, Speedy! Those corporate clowns will never know what hit 'em.
Between you & Bert, you’ve got the coasts covered. When can we invest?
Nah - seriously, glad to see you out on your own. Its the only way to go. Freedom, creativity, innovation…not to mention the money if you play it right. Why is there glamour attached to the starving shaper? F that. Make a killing, buddy - you’ve earned it. 
mate
i cant thank you enough for your inspiration
hopefully we can hook up next time im over there
those boards you are building are insane man
im dying to see them in real life
maybe theres some secrets that a few of us can share with you now
(though you prolly know them all anyway)
hopefully Danb will start posting again as well, now you and bert are back in town
Josh,
The peach machine shaped board looks amazing! Spacey and Hi-tech but with your eye for curves, beautiful. If it goes as good as it looks and doesn’t squash your nads when paddling, I’d be interested in getting one the same ( 6’1"x 18 1/2" x 2 1/4?) Have you had any waves on it yet?
Best of luck Josh, both your art and concepts look amazing. I’m so stoked by all this stuff. I have my nylon vac bags, my RR epoxy and balsa are with the shippers and I glued up a couple of sheets of EPS last night. can’t wait to get started.
With yourself and Bert working from the same technology, in the same market It’ll be good to see what happens, particularly as you bring your own design concepts to the process.
Best of luck to both of you.
Nice Quiver!! The double concave deck looks and sounds interesting.
what fins do you have on your tri’s? looks like m5’s or m7’s.
I think I like big stiff fins for this type of construction.
Cool to hear you’re going your own way. wish you the best of luck!
Jimmy yoshio shibata.
Amazing… I go away for a bit and come back to a stack of wellwishes.
Where to start with responses?
Thanks gentlemen.
I have to come back to this tommorrow.
Josh
Good for you mate, properity is never about money, best of luck I have no doubt yours will be a success story.
Really looking forward to seeing your new work.
hopefully Danb will start posting again as well, now you and bert are back in town
Nope, even their return isn’t enough to get me posting right now 
I tend to be rather obsessive, and only have time to obsess about one thing at a time. I just got a new diesel van (with a lot of help from Ben), and its been a huge learning curve. Since it has a few (as in lots of) miles on it I’ve been spending most of my free time learning how it works. For instance this weekend I get to rebuild the front end (springs, shock, bushings). However, overall the van is in great shape so it shouldn’t take that much more of my time to renue its youth - then I’ll be back. The plus is that its big enough to permenately store my boards in it which has been getting me out in the water a couple more times a week (I love having vented boards).
Speedneedle,
congrats on your board winning at Bells. definitely not a bridesmaid anmore as you said.
Here the aim is have the bottom contour go DOUBLE concave as the board flexs.
WOW! how dynamic is that?!?!
Bert has always said that the new tech can and should be used with new design ideas.
those concave decks just got the little hampster in my head running a mile a minute.
i’m definitely looking forward to what evolves!
all the best of luck to you Speedy
Hi Josh,
what kind of waves did you design that pink board for? seems to me it would go well on a small but nicely shaped wave. Not for grovelling but not when its pumping either. I could be wrong though. Your thoughts?
Cheers,
Rio
This is awesome!
A tour of Australia to pick up CompSands on both coasts and then over to NZ to grab some of Silly’s work would be sweet trip from SD. And if I made that 14 hour flight I might as well hit Indo to work out the sweet spots on the new quiver. What a trip that would be!
I am stoked to see this movement take root and grow. I still like my firewire and look foward to a day when I can get my hands on one of your new rocket ships!
Best of luck and please train others to make these boards.
Shine on…
Hmm,
Yeah, the pink board is basically for small shapely waves, Queensland pockets.
I had been deadset into swallowtails down in Victoria. The little straight section of tail is good for drive in some of my beloved Southern waves. You tend to get a big round cutback. Queensland however has a tighter, steeper pocket to the waves, and you want to hook tighter. The curve in the outline in a rounded pin allows this. The board on the right end of the quiver lineup has the formula down better than the peach board, which has a little too much bulk in the rail.
The rail profile needs to be a little finer in these double concave decks, theres more bulk transfered to that high point where the concave meets the rail. Yeah, a finer rail profile than my standard domed decks.
In fact there’s only one domed deck in that quiver…
Quiver shot from left to right
1)- “Penetrator” 6’7" x 19 1/4" x 2 1/2. Double concave deck round pin. Prefab skin
2)- “Offcutter” 7’x18 3/4" x 2 3/8" Dome deck, flat bottom, round pin. Combo balsa/corecell deck.
3)- “Space Machine” 6’5 x 20 1/2" x 2 3/8 Double concave deck Twin fin 2.1 kg.
4)- “White Knight” 6’6" x 19" x 2 3/8" Concave deck, 2kg. 2 oz bottom, single 4deck, texture deck.
5)- “Two-tone” 6’6" x 19 1/4 x 2 1/4 Concave deck, two density Dcell deck, balsa springer.
6)- “El Mysterioso” 6’6" x 19 1/4 x 2 3/8 Double Concave deck. Ridiculously light.
Speeedy
Hey Wells,
Glad to contribute to the expansion of the conceivable.
I’ve spent a long time looking for new lines in a surfboard…
Yeah, a lifetime of looking down a middle stringer, then BANG its not there anymore. With the centre stringer gone, the mindset changes. Bert freaked when he saw that twinfin shaped. Even further than he had taken decks. That was cool.
I’m into where to place the stiffness and flex next. That debate about Taj’s board with weight? Totally bogus.
Silly was actually on the money with it…Not about weight but STIFFNESS DISTRIBUTION…varying skin, wood thickness and core densities.
Speedy
Yoshio,
I’ve got the full range of those FCS composite fins…M3, M7, M5. I used to stick with a YU template fin on my small wave boards, but eventually I realised I was designing boards around the fins!
So now I mix and match. Mainly smaller back fins. The FCS fin system is reliable, and the fins are easy to get hold of. I have handmade corecell/epoxy fins in the twinfin, a good thick foil. If I had more time, I’d make all my own fins.
Been playing with fin tilt too…keep going back to 4deg for the drive…
Speedy
Dan, I picked you for an obsessive, with some of your discourses. The car now is it?
Engines…I keep threatening to buy an old Triumph motorcycle. The wife just rolls her eyes.The truth is, I’d be not long for this world on a motorbike.
You gonna spray yours?
Speedy
Aloha Josh
regarding these specs…
1)- “Penetrator” 6’7" x 19 1/4" x 2 1/2. Double concave deck round pin. Prefab skin
2)- “Offcutter” 7’x18 3/4" x 2 3/8" Dome deck, flat bottom, round pin. Combo balsa/corecell deck.
3)- “Space Machine” 6’5 x 20 1/2" x 2 3/8 Double concave deck Twin fin 2.1 kg.
4)- “White Knight” 6’6" x 19" x 2 3/8" Concave deck, 2kg. 2 oz bottom, single 4deck, texture deck.
5)- “Two-tone” 6’6" x 19 1/4 x 2 1/4 Concave deck, two density Dcell deck, balsa springer.
6)- “El Mysterioso” 6’6" x 19 1/4 x 2 3/8 Double Concave deck. Ridiculously light.
What’s your specs?
so I can put things into perspective because they seem wider than what I would envision for those lengths.
We hardly see anything out here 19"-20" wide in that length most everything is 18"-19" wide. I think Bud’s board reflect best what we see in mostly our market here in Hawaii.
If you were to compare where you’re at compsand wise, compared to where you where before you hooked up with Bert and the FW project, how far off would you say you were prior to the experience? Cause remembering your posts you were doing some neat things even back then in balsa compsands…
How would those boards you made back then compare to what you’re doing today?
im with you on 4 degrees man
hey why arent you surfing
snappers looks sick
head high and reasonably clean
Glad to see you and Bert back.
Silly, yes, I needed reminding, so Oneula, later…The water is just over there!!!
Speedy