Greg Liddle’s Template Collection stacked up outside his shop during the closing sale 1989 (Agoura, California)
Amazing! Well I can’t say where Liddle’s templates are, but they may have wound up like Dave Sweets’ molds, buried under some building like the “Getty”.
kp has most of them. i have a few as does mobley of mobley surfboards. they are scattered amongst the tribe. greg still has some of the “crtitical/important” ones.
And I thought I had an impressive collection… that’s an impressive row stacked to the gills!
also ,
“where are they now ?”
…rachel , king of dub , josh , cheater 5 , carl olsen , shwuz , lob, and … yoshio , susej , and andi , and other asian brothers who used to post here
i miss their enthusiasm , photos , and …stoke here !!
SURF-STOKED grommets are the future , G.R.O.M. *'s are the past / history
cheers !
ben
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i believe that’s me bent over grabbing a stub template.remember, when he made a board, he made a template for that board.lotsa boards and history there…
Ambrose has plenty
Incredible, there are more templates than some shapers have done boards, I threw out short templates after the early 70’s short board revolution, boards then went ridiculously narrow, flat, retarded, overly gunned out, never thought they would get below 6 feet again.
Isn’t it funny how we think one thing and the opposite happens. I’m sure there were shapers that never thought they’d see longboarding come back either… funny.