We’ve all (hopefully) had magic boards over the years that just had that special mojo. My single favorite is an 8’0 thruster pin semi-gun Doug Schroedel made me in 94’ that was just…magic. One day my son will paddle my ashes out on that battered old warhorse.
What’s yours…?
The board from this build thread is my favourite.
http://www2.swaylocks.com/forums/65-project-indian-surfpics-snap-repair
When I paddled out the first time, a friend asked: “did you install an engine in it?” since I caught significantly more waves than I did before.
The board also has the exact nervosity I’m looking for. It has great control, but is still as manoeuvrable as I desire.
This is my favorite…taken when it was new and unwaxed. I’ve been surfing it for a while now, and I really like it because it works well in small to well overhead surf. fast and smooth, and it makes sections I never thought I could make. 7’6x22x3
The next one.
5’2" Mini, this board is the definition of a “Magic Board”… I can surf this thing to a little bigger than Overhead surf… Love this thing… It Kills it!
Skip Fry gave me this board a couple months after I cut my finger off on a jointer with a broken gaurd. I wait for those perfect days to take it out.
OUCH!
Hey Rhino, on your next board you’ve got to make that x ray into a laminate!
Hope you’re healed up OK.
When I started working for a woodworker he was showing me how to use the different tools. He had a huge Oliver jointer. To demonstrate its lethality he put a hot dog on a stick and stuck it into the spinning blades and then showed me the mulch underneath, saying, “There’s your finger if you f…k up.”
Im only 17, but my favorite board without question is my 8’6 Surfboards East nth degree model. it just flat out works!
i have no one favorite board.............
,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,but i have had several.
herb
I had the “most fun” on my 7’6" Morey-Doyle:
(Also starring my first-born daugher at 3 mos and my wife, January 1981)
I’ve enjoyed all the new short boards I’ve bought from shops over the last 35 years. They were always my favorite board ever… until I decided I needed a new board.
The Griffin 5-fin fish fits somewhere near the top of the list if not at the top right now. For the boards I’ve made this one with Robin Mair’s hammer fin quad setup is my go to when the waves are good.
curious about those Robin Mari fins - look like they would provide mucho drive…still roll a cuttie ok?
This board feels just right under my feet:
I was bummed to put the back of my head through the deck of my magic board:
But, she’s back together again and as good as ever.
An original MR twin fin. Took my surfing to new heights. Met it’s fate on the rocks…
so heres the funnest board that i have ever had
it a copy of a 1983 G&S that i had and road to death
i had Terry Goldsmith shape it and Gregg Webbster lam it for me in resin tint then i did the rest
the board is 6’2 20 1/4 wide and 2 3/4 thick
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that board still looks contemporary - like almost all the good ones do, regardless of age…
Pretty much every board ends up being a favorite after a while, but the board I remember having the most fun on was my little brothers 5-2 Canyon twin fin (second from left). I’m on the far right with the 5-6 Wave Tools swallow tail winged thruster, that I hated. But I used to take my little brothers Canyon out all the time, and it was so fun. Thick and fast, but loose in the tail. Exactly how a twin fin fish should be.
