Like a time traveler, OPS warp from 89 to 11. Joined Sway’s a while back. Noticed pretty quick to respect and to listen when ACE spoke.
Diffidently spied the “squish” in researching HPLB quad fin set ups OPS was lookin’ for solid fin set ups and POW the bottom nose rail caught my eye, HUMMM.
Friday my son’s friend brought over his “favorite stick” with a messed up old school FU box. Started in later with the box and it hits me! Hey sorry for the enthusiasm but notice in the first photos the SKILL and thought that went into this, (not to mention the lamination, NICE for so many curves). Scope’d out the nose and connected the dots.
OPS thinking ACE did this, AH guessing, maybe 93???
I do not want to start a discussion about that, only saying what I see in those photos nothing more.
Quality work is quality work, just that; like another thread that I read where other member said something like “you are just good as your last work…”
Check for yourself plenty of boards and you ll see that ones are perfectly done and others are not so incredible, but you should do a closer inspection and have a developed eye
Ace is a great shaper, knowledgeable, skilled and experienced (yes he did shape for eaton, knows bonzers inside and out!), marches to the beat of his own drum, not a follower of trends, shares a lot and willingly, posts photos, does not get involved in drama here. Much respect.
Those are nice photos Oldphart, thanks for posting them! That is one wild looking twinny. Can you give some dimensions?
So, while lookingood may think he knows why that board has tanning around the stringer, I have my own theory.
Can someone verify or disprove this idea?
I believe that foam which is in contact with the stringer turns brown with age because of a chemical reaction between the foam and the acid content of the wood.
Certainly, some boards get depressions at the stringer where the foam deflects, the stringer stays put, and the glass gets a scattering of cracks which seep water.
That is the typical cause of browning. Water intrusion. But, many old boards also discolor near the stringer with no signs of any damage, and in spots that don’t
get a lot of heavy abuse.
So, what say you? Is it possible that acidity of the wood can cause discoloration in the long term?
Yep one of my Zingers. Around 1990. These were a complete redisgn of the Bonzers I was shaping at the time. Idea was sparked by Will Jobsens twinzer. He brought a couple twinzers by the shop Woody Brown Carl Ekstrom Eaton and myself were checking em out. Jobsen was explainig his theory behind fin set up. Like a main and a jibe sail but channeling water. Woody knew a LOT about sailboats said “that’s not exactly how that works”’ the others were skeptical as well. I woke up in the middle of the night with “twin fin bonzer” stuck in my head. Made some for myself and a couple friends Eaton wanted nothing to do with em until I forced him to ride one. He caught one wave paddled back out “I like it”. The crappy plastic side fins were another story. Things started getting weird when Eaton said that because I developed the board while I worked for him it was now HIS. He still has em made I get nothing.
I will check my finish work on my next board because it might be my last.
Sorry for spelling errors crappy internet and tablet that does not work well is all I got down here.
Good to see board is still getting used. Love it when they are bruised brown and still going.
Good story, Ace. Funny how two guys in that anecdote are kind of opposites in their personas. You’ve got Uncle Woody, who was the type to share whatever he had, and then there’s Eaton.
