Surf Boards I have owned per shaper since I started surfing

General Discussion
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Boards I have owned per shaper: From Memory. I know I am leaving out some singles here and there. Also this doesn't include the numerous shapers I used to carry in my shops. I add more if they come to memory. It's a trip going back and actually trying to count. This isn't in order. I actually bought my first actual personal board from Brian Waters around 1977. On Forstall boards. I have owned too many to remember them all, but these are the main ones.

Steve Forstall: Does not include shop boards
1.9’ Long board single
2.thruster
3.6’10’’ Thruster 
4.6’10’’ Lazor Egg
5.6’8’’ Lazor egg
6.6’10’’ Twin fin fish
7.6’3’’ Twin Fin fish
8.10’ epoxy Long board x 2
9.9’1’’ Long board thruster
10.9’ Long board two plus one x 2
11.6’10’’ Single fin Lazor Zap keel board
12.7’2’’ Cheater x 3 
13. 7’ Egg Swallow thruster

Greg Pautsch
1.6’ Lazor Zap
2.6’4’’ Lazor zap
3.6’10’’ thruster x 3
4.7’ thruster swallow 
5.6’8’’ Winged keel single fin
6.9’ performance long board
7.8’ Semi Gun
8.8’6’’ Triple Stringer Hawaiian gun
9.7’ single fin swallow
10. 7’2’’ thruster
11.6’4’’ Twin fin
12. 6’10’’ Winged swallow thruster

Brian Waters
6’8’’ Winger pin tail single fin
6’4’’ Twin fin round tail
6’2’’ Twin fin six channel pin tail
6’ Lazor Zap
6’6’’ Winger pin tail single fin with Shadow fin
6’5’’ Six Channel Single fin with Shadow fin

Lance Carson
9’6’’ Long board volan, glassed on fin traditional L.C. 

Jeff Bushman: Does not include shop boards
7’6’’ Thruster


Bill Stewart: Does not include shop boards

9’ Hydro Hull x 3
9’ LSP
6’10’’ Thruster
6’10’’ Egg
9’4’’ Herbie Fletcher single fin Terry Martin

Doc Lausch: Does not include shop boards
6’6’’ Twin fin
6’10’’ Thruster
T Patterson: 
7'2'' Semi Pin tail thruster

Bob Hurley
5’10’’ Triple wing Twin fin



Mike Richards
6’2’’ original thruster Infinity


Steve of Infinity: Does not include shop boards 

9’6’’ Triple Stringer Long board


Malcolm Campbell
7’ Five fin bonzer

Challenger 
6’6’’ Stinger

G and S
11’ Long board
9’6’’ Triple Stringer long board
7’6’’ Egg 
7’11’’ Hot Curl Early seventies Mid length
9’6’’ 60’s Longboard
9’ Triple Stringer long board

Bing
10’ David Nuiwwa nose rider x 2 

Steve Stack: Does not include shop boards
6’8’’ Lazor Zap boat nose
9’ Longboard
6’6’’ Lazor Zap Quad
6’6’’ Lazor Zap
6’6’’ Fat Bastard Single fin Double ender

Ron Roush 
7’ thruster
6’6’’ Lazor Zap

Hank Warner
7’ Hot Buttered Twinzer
6’10’’ Twister ( like a nugget )

Ricky Carroll: 
9’ Epoxy Longboard
6’10’’ Zap Twinzer
6’8’’ Boat Nosed Horan winged keel board





Geoff McCoy: Does not include shop boards
7’2’’ Wild one Nugget x 2
6’8’’ Nugget
8er Nugget
9’2’’ Mal


Roger Wood
6’2’’ Innerlight thruster

Bill Barnfield 
6’2’’ Round Pin Thruster

Peter Schroff 
5’11’’ Blaster 

Rusty
6’6’’ Zappish Thruster
7’ thruster
9’ desert Island

Al Merrick 
6’9’’ thruster


Mass produced boards I tried out and sold
9’ 4’’ Wing nut Wood Surf Tech Long board 
9’6’’ Donald Takayama Surf Tech Long board
9’ Cactus long board

Skip Frye
9'2'' Egg Longboard 
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1962-present.  All single-fins unless otherwise indicated. Shaper indicated when known:

•9’2" Dave Sweet pig

•9’2" Weber pig (H. Iggy?)

•9’4" Gordon & Smith (M. Hynson?)

•9’6" “garage-built” (E. Thornburgh)

•7’10" Soul pintail mini gun

•6’10" Thought (Chuck Vinson)

•6’6" Mike Noble (M. Noble)

•6’6" “no name” (self)

•6’6" W.A.V.E. HOLLOW  swallow tail (Morey?)

•6’10" W.A.V.E. diamond tail (Morey?)

•7’2" Weber Performer

•6’10" Bing Bonzer (Eaton/Campbell)

•7’4" West Cliff (J. Thomas)

•7’6" Freeline gun (J. Mel)

•6’6" Joey Thomas egg (J. Thomas)

•7’4" Joey Thomas stinger (J. Thomas)

•7’6" Joey Thomas stinger (J. Thomas)

•7’10" Joey Thomas (J. Thomas)

•6’4"  Haut twin (J. Thomas)

•6’10" Freeline thruster (J. Mel)

•6’6" Haut winged swallow thruster (D. Haut)

•6’10" Haut winged swallow thruster (D. Haut)

•7’10" Yater mini longboard (L. Yater)

•10’2" O’neil tanker

•7’10" Arrow mini longboard (B. Pearson)

•6’2" home-made pintail (self)

•6’4" home-made winged swallow thruster (self)

•9’0" Arrow longboard (B. Pearson)

•9’6" Arrow longboard (2+1) (B. Pearson)

•9’0" Arrow longboard (2+1) (B. Pearson)

•9’0" Arrow longboard (2+1) (B. Pearson)

•9’0" Arrow longboard (2+1) (B. Pearson)

•7’3" Vinson pintail thruster (C. Vinson)

•9’0" Vinson squashtail longboard (2+1) (C. vinson)

•9’0" Harbour Simms Diamond Tail (2+1) (R. Harbour)

•9’6" Harbour Simms Diamond Tail (2+1) (R. Harbour)

•9’8" Harbour Noserider (R. Harbour/T. Stamps)

•9’6" Harbour Banana (R. Harbour/T. Stamps)

•9’6" Harbour Quatro/H3 (5 box) (R. Harbour/T.Stamps)

 

Still have 7 of the last 8.

 

 

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Wow… that’s an impressive memory you’ve got there Solo.  No way I can remember all the boards I’ve had.

The first few were shaped and glassed by my dad, with me pretending to help.  

Next were ones I shaped with actual help from my dad.

After the hand holding I made a few entirely on my own.

My first “real” board was a Jacobs.

I then had some crappy ones that are mostly forgotten by now.  Two of the crappiest were early WAVE hollow boards.  I think one was a Brewer design.  Mike Purpus probably inspired me to get them since we looked up to him and everything he did - he also inspired us to wear our trunks on the outside of our farmer johns, only to be partially obscured by beaver tails :wink:  Those boards were terrible.  They were heavy, they leaked like MoFos, the rails had tape that interrupted water flow… not much good to say about those.

For my 13th birthday in 1971 some friends got together and suprised me with what I still consider my all-time best board - a 6’0" round pin that came from Jacobs, but didn’t have any logo.  It had a psychedellic airbrush job and a red lighting bolt.  Not like the official bolts (Bill’s) from a couple years later, but with three jags instead of two.  I still had that board when I moved to Huntington.  I wish I knew what happened to it.  

I had a couple really nice and memorable Plastic Fantastics.

Later in 71 Tak Kawahara (Dewey Weber) shaped me a batch of boards.

72 and 73 were the days of Bing Bonzers shaped by Mike Eaton.  I had about a dozen of those.

Another pile (from my perspective) from around then was a Corky Carroll Spacestick Simmons inspired twin.

Carl Hayward shaped me a few fish in the mid-70s.

Had a Nuuhiwa fish around then too.  I got to surf with David occasionally in those days, and since I considered him the all time best surfer (still probably do), I had to have at least one board like his.  For some reason mine didn’t do the same maneuvers as his :wink:

In the late 80’s Paul Kraus shaped me three boards in trade for an experimental airplane I had.  The most memorable shared a template from the zepplin in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.  Paul and I worked together at Lucasfilm at the time.  He made the zepplin and thought the template would be perfect for a board.  We painted it red and grey camo and called it “the bleeding seal”.

I don’t remember too many others really.

My current quiver consists of (may have missed some):

9’2" Brewer longboard + 2 copies by Michel Junod
6’0" Mystic thruster
6’1" Hydro Epic Al Merrick MBM
6’2" Hydro Epic Brewer Pro Short
6’2" Stewart S-rail fish EPS
6’3" Brewer round-pin winger single fin
6’3" Michel Junod quad
6’3" Danny Hess Pacheco fish
6’10" Brewer Baby Noserider
7’0" Brewer round-pin winger single fin (I have two of these)
7’2" Brewer mini gun
7’8" Hydro Epic Brewer Cali Hybrid
8’0" Brewer min longboard
8’0" Brewer semi-gun
8’3" Mystic funboard
9’3" Brewer quad gun
9’3" Reno Abellira gun
9’4" Andreini balsa railed gun
10’0" Brewer gun
10’0" Reno Abellira gun
10’4" Brewer SUP

 

 

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Wow, 81 at my count. How many you still got. There’s some beauties in there.

 

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I still have all my Geoff McCoys.  Two Greg Pautsch, Three Forstalls, Boat nosed Ricky Carroll, a 9’ Stack and Fast Bastard Stack also the Stack Zap, The Lance Carson. I want on a selling spree a couple of years ago even selling off two of my first surfboards. I have pretty much lost all nostalgia for surf boards. If it’s not getting ridden or doesn’t hold some special meaning it gets shucked.   I did have quite a few of those on the list about five years ago. The whole created board collector thing doesn’t hold much interest for me or I likely wouldn’t have sold them.  Ha.

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Good memory, too.  Mike