Congrats Jim…
Roger
Yowza! This should be good....
I'll be watching my mailbox.
Nice. I should be getting my copy of this issue in about a month, or so.
Howzit Proneman, What number is that journel so I can buy it since they do sell them even in Havasu. How's the wife these days. Aloha,Kokua
great news. I cannot wait.
congrats, Jim.
Mike, I’ll never own a ‘Jim’, but knowing you trained under him is the next best thing (since I have a great board from you and more to come)
I’m just a urf groupie ha.
Got mine! 9’11 with 3" balsa stringer and lam wood tailblock. Clark heavy classic foam and one layer of 8 0z volan.
Aloha, kokua. That is issue 20.2, the upcoming one. There's a teaser on TSJ website.
Got my issue yesterday. The cover shot is jaw dropping! The article was a great tribute to Jim, and his skill. Well deserved, I thought.
Congratulations Jim.
that was fun, Balsa Bill. thx
I’m coming over Saturday and will stop by for a few new Tee’s shown on your website. Very nice.
Howzit Mike, Thanks for the info,now I know which one to get. Aloha,Kokua
i love it when one of our own makes it big !
herb
Read the Jim Phillips piece and I went away hungry for more…I’d prefer fewer pages of the another photo heavy perfect indo boat trip, and have at least another five word rich pages into the insight, philosophy, and crystal ball gazing of “the gremmie who followed his dream…”
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Note to TSJ:
There are way more than a few underground guys here doing some amazing stuff, and have done so for years…Guys with heaps of cred, innovation and funny stories waiting to be told…
At the top of that list, I put both Kirk Putnam and Herb Spitzer…The Double Interview: Parallel lives in a crazy time…Twenty five pages, minimum…
Double dare you TSJ…
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Are you a subscriber?
I’m on the EC and it seems like my copy takes bloody forever to arrive. I see people talking online about the newest issue a good three to four weeks before it gets to my mailbox.
Yeah, I subscribe…
Got mine yesterday up here in Washington State…
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I can't remember for sure but weren't you sitting with me at the campfire at Plaskett late one night when KP and Herb went at it? My sides still hurt from laughing! They were weaving South Bay and Santa Barbara surf history with surfboard/skateboard/snowboard industry insider stories into a manic, surreal, hilarious dialog. One great moment in time...
i'll have to buy a copy.
kirk and me...........lol........okay.
but like you said........ so many here.
like yourself paul,and i would like to see ambrose,kokua,but a interview with mr thrailkill would be very enlighting.
jim was the first pro that really stuck it out here and i believe he's getting some of his rewards for it.
it's great to build surfboards..............it's another thing to create a life style out of building great surfboards.
herb
As Jim mentions in his article, the surfboard building business was / is built around tightly held secrets…(Read the artile)
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But here, it is the polar opposite…
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More like “Hey, check this out…!!!..”
Agreed. The article was great - Paul did a great job. It was a tasty bite for sure. Paul made it a unique story about the authenticity one of the few renaissance men in the craft. Will someone pick up where the piece left off? Let's hope so. And I for one hope it's not a model line up like an ad posing for an article but instead let it be a Zelig style piece that weaves in pure Genius.
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Couldn’t agree more…actually think Surfers Journal could/should feature a shaper in each issues. That’s only 6 shapers featured a year, and there is such a diverse and rich range of shapers around the globe, many well known known, others completely off the radar…give a couple of pages per issue, brief bio on that shapers background, rest on the shapes they favor and why…
All the time I tell the inexperienced, do a hundred small cuts or one big oops, there are 31 pieces of balsa in the air, each one scooped out as the blade passes over the wood, as shallow as I can get it to cut, I can always do it 99 more times