i’m thinking it might be one that yater shaped because it is thin. i don’t think i’ll be able to get pics, but i’ll ask.
These old designs were from an era when a noseride was just a trick out of trim, “the sauce, not the meat” as my buddy Sharky says. Mike’s particular style is for sure driven by that aesthetic and the pig fits it to a tee. They still noseride in a pocket but will turn out of the flats buried up to the stringer and seem to have an auto pilot back into the hook. Logging for the “distinguished gentleman” aye Mikey? Great blog that surfapig, so much space is dedicated to hulls and fish and so on, logs ( due to kooks ) are much maligned.
I’ll check in on “the grey lady” and see if I can get a photo.
here here!
or should it be “your nose pipe sire?”
Thanks Skip!
Here is a “fresh pig” just finished for Mario.
Nice!
“Mario” had a old Corky Carol “V” bottom that he wanted copied. It is 24’’ wide and 3 1/2" thick. Pretty flat rocker with lots of “V” blended into the rolled bottom. The original had the usual crappy plastic fin. still intack. Not a “D” fin but still a Pig.
Here is another one I made a few years ago for “Butter”
And finally one old balsa pig in “original” shape. I like to show this one to the “kids” and tell em they have it made with the equipment they have today. This is the kind of stuff we had to learn on.
The first board I bought was a used Velzy/Jacobs balsa Pig, paid $40.00 for it with hard earned paper route money.
[img_assist|nid=1043800|title=high performance|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=597|height=640]bobby brown
what a talent wasted
**talk about ride the pig?
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some weird shit goin on here
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“I am all about the wide tail, D fin, narrow nose board. These 3 elements more or less define a “Pig” board as far as I am concerned.”
Do not forget bottom roll. No flat spots anywhere.
I was just wondering where a Junod Pignar falls in the pig criteria with it having the nose concave? Seems to tick all the other boxes - or not?
The concave kinda throws me for a loop. I spoke to Junod about the pignar at the sacred craft. I saw this kid ride one at Malibu once. The board had the CRAZIEST line through the section right at the rivermouth. This kid was on the nose ,the board was in a position such that if you would have taken a photograph at that moment it would have looked like he was climbing the wave…but it wasn’t. it was just sliding through the section.
I love the template of the pignar. I do not prefer concave in my boards. My belief is …if you keep the tail down…the nose stays up.
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The concave kinda throws me for a loop. I spoke to Junod about the pignar at the sacred craft. I saw this kid ride one at Malibu once. The board had the CRAZIEST line through the section right at the rivermouth. This kid was on the nose ,the board was in a position such that if you would have taken a photograph at that moment it would have looked like he was climbing the wave…but it wasn’t. it was just sliding through the section.
I love the template of the pignar. I do not prefer concave in my boards. My belief is …if you keep the tail down…the nose stays up.
i’m with you on having a preference for no concave - however friends of mine love the pignar - there’s one going for a good price and i’m going to go for it despite the concave and the fact that at 150lbs the 9’9 is a bit longer than i would normally ride - seems strange to me making it at only one length but Michel knows what he’s doing and is not a big guy himself so I’m hoping it will be great!
By the way - loving the blog!
Hey Mikey, my Christianson C-Hag ( Pintail Pig ) has some con clear through to the wide point then flat, then rolled v. Your dead on with the comments as to weird tracking. However I generally prefer less, not more belly these days as I feel a flatter bottom carries speed better and I hate the wallowing. That said, my next piglet will have a solid tried-n-true Velzy aesthetic, and this time a D-fin to lock down the wallow. The C-Hag sports a more modern fin template (Cooperish) to accommodate the pintail also. As for definition, I would call any back of center wp log a pig just to avoid the non-sense we had a few years back with some choad’s dictating what a Fish was. I would love to have Gene do this piggy for me but I believe I will tap Josh Hall for this one as I don’t think my friend has done one yet and it’ll be rad to see how it turns out, he has yet to fail me.
meant to ask - what did he say about the pignar when you spoke to him?
thanks for the support!
MJ was explaining the concave as being an integral part of the board given the interactions of the other design elements.