There’s a bloke round here who’s made about 600 boards. That doesn’t sound a lot by some shaper’s standards, but he shaped, glassed, sanded and finished every one of those 600. When you think about it that way it’s a lot of boards.
I’m curious to know who has made more. Remember I’m talking about taking a blank, shaping it by hand, glassing, sanding and finishing with no help from anybody else.
maybe, I think so any way (no help, no contract glassing)… feels like I have
600 / 25 years = 24 a year one every fortnight… I only do all the work on my own personal boards (and some teamy ones)
…maybe not then.
sound like not many boards but that a bit of work there.
That isn’t a lot…I stopped counting over a few thousand , but at least half were designed and shaped by others…does it really matter to anyone apart from a mathematician ?..I mean , how many boards has George Greenough shaped , compared to Geoff McCoy or Lance Carson ?..how do you rate Surftech in the numbers game ?..the backbone of the global surf industry has always been the production shapers , laminators , sanders and finish coaters…and they were surfers , all busy making good surfboards…then came the machine…and the overall quality dropped through the floorboards.
I make no judgements. I’m just curious. There are shapers out there who sand the ridges off a machine shaped blank and count it as a board shaped. There are also those who do every step of the process themselves from shaping to finish sanding the gloss coat. Both are equally valid in my my book.
In answer to your question Kayu, I’m interested in how many boards an indivdual has made from start to finish. As far as I’m aware a lot of famous shapers only shape and don’t do much else, so possibly someone like Geoff McCoy hasn’t actually made that many boards from start to finish. (Let me emphasise again that I make no value judgement here.) The reason it matters to me is because I was thinking about how much effort goes into making one surfboard if you’re doing the whole thing. 600 seems like a lot to me. Is there someone out there who’s made thousands? For example by my calculations 3000 boards would be two a week for thirty years. That’s a lot of shaping, glassing and sanding!
I so wish it turned out that way, The industry is so fuked up, people make 10 boards a week as a hobie, after hours.
… But, I must be still sore after loosing my little factory, always someone to blame haha
… and no a don’t think machined blanks should count in your question
2:38
sums it up nicely
I know berry does a lot of his start to finish (maybe all of them actual)
Roger hinds does about 6-7 a week.
And for the most part - neither is doin white sanded boards.
Those two just come to mind quickly. I’m sure there are more.
…Andreini and Hinds does not make all the work.
Also is not possible to build 7 full custom boards (included fins) per week alone.
Thanks for the Marc Andrenini link zacoopman. He’s a real gentleman. We are blessed to have these guys who were there at the start still actively making boards, and willing to share their experience with us.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7getvnA6N5I&nohtml5=False
14 over 2 weeks is a lot easier then 7 boards over 1 week (5 day working week) and even easier 21 boards over 3 weeks.
But, stuff that.
I think StoneBurnner has made more surfboards than anyone…
I don’t know anything about how Andreni does things…
I can only go off what I have seen with my two eyes to be true and the mouth of the man himself…
http://www.thesurfboardproject.com/roger-hinds-interview/
I do not believe roger makes all his own fins
Reverb… Do you have knowledge otherwise?
stingray wrote:
I think StoneBurnner has made more surfboards than anyone…
Ah heck, it is nothing to knock out 20 surfboards per day (8/7/365 since 1929) – homemade blank to gloss coat. Hand shaped with a saw, sanding block, single-edged razor blade and chisel. Shortboards, longboards, makes no difference. Still cannot keep up with the demand.
Made the first thruster in 1945, first quad in 1947.
But my ability pales in comparison with your splint method for repairing broken surfboards DingRay.
Best wishes,
Stone
Mr. Liddle has been since 1968. Only recently has he started using an outside glasser
HA!
very very nice
