Your shapers over the years..?

Mine have been:

Wardy

Hansen

Harbour

Dick Keating

Craig Macarthur

Bob Wise

Chuck Vinson

Joey Thomas

Doug Haut

Bob Pearson

Steve Iverson

BK

Al Merrick

Steve Colletta

Mike Russo/Rusty

Doug Schroedel

Ward Coffey

Alan Gibbons (waiting on my first)

What’s your list look like…?

Peter Drouyn

Terry Vosper

Brendan Milch

Glenn Jones

Geoff Darby

Greg Webb

Stumpy Wallace

Mitchell Rae

Lawrie Hohensee

John Boreham

Wayne Lynch

If my memory serves me correctly, in no particular order:

Sparky Scheufele

George Downing

Gordon Duane

Mike Winterburn

Randy Rarrick

Tom Hoye

Doug Haut

Mark Angell

John Mel

Hap Jacobs

Ben Aipa

Jeff Timpone

Bob “Ole” Olson

Gerry Lopez

Tom Parrish

Don Koplien

Reno Abellira

Ernie Tanaka

Roger Hinds

Hoyle Runnels

Phil Edwards

Wayne Santos

Dick Brewer

Mark Andrieni

Mike Turkington

Buddy Dunphy

Terry Martin

Ryan Dotson

Less Potts

Harold Iggy

Mike Diffenderfer

Tom Nellis

Jay Richardson

Pat Rawson

Karl Hill

Steve Wilson

Gordon Quigg

Nelson Sadoy

Jeff Bushman

John Pyzel

Carl Schaper

Todd Pinder

Me

Mo collins

renolds yater

doug haut{offen derrack}

yater yater yater

Yater

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{thats shifted 1968

I got excited and prressed

the shift key , subsequently thought I

would explore it as a coding devise}

!(^* me me me me me me me me me me

1972 yater 1973 yater…

an since then

all me and I still have most of the personals

that is the ones I made for my self

good to have refrence materials…

oh yeah I do have five dale solomon shapes

in neumatics and one gifted 4th gear flyer.

only other shaper Ive ridden is dale’s stuff.

shaping is so cool fun

hard to share once I tasted the satisfactions.

…ambrose…

three hundred silkscreen shirts

four dinged boards then ten boards

cut styro foam blanks tomorrow

1.5# foam…then the stringers

new stringer wood coming out next week

my destiny stretches out before me.

and now for an east coastal view :wink:

dan heritage ----dick catri----wally meyers-----brian wynn

(grad school in hawaii’)brewer–stonebreaker—dotson—

Now–malcom campbell—fletch charnoiard(oops)–dale salomanson

there’s a whole bunch of others, but i’m too old to remember, and they didn’t ‘stick’ in my brain

Here’s my fuzzy recollection in chronological order:

  1. my dad

  2. me

  3. Tak Kawahara @ Dewey Weber

  4. Mike Eaton @ Bing

  5. Carl Hayward

  6. Dick Brewer

  7. John Moore

  8. Michel Junod

  9. Bill Stewart

  10. Dick Brewer

  11. Gary Linden

  12. Dick Brewer

  13. Dick Brewer

  14. Dick Brewer

It was a LONG time ago … can anyone fill in blanks (no pun,etc.)?

1 - Bunger

2 - ??? ( 70’s Hansen Stone Steps)

3 - Becker? (60’s UFO)

4 - Mulhern (MTB)

5 - Michael Polvare - (Sol)

6 - George Panton (Inspiration)

7 - Rich Harbour? (60’s Cheater)

8 - Mike Eaton? (60’s Bing Lightweight)

8 - Mike Diffenderfer? (early 60’s Olympic)

9 - Stewart (Stewart)

10 - Claude Codgen (Sunshine)

11 - Tyler? (90’s Jacobs)

12 - Pat O’Hare (every board was magic!!!)

13 - me (very humbly after the aforementioned)

I will list shapers that have shaped me more than one board. I have tried too many others to mention

  1. Steve Forstall

  2. Greg Pautsh

  3. Geoff Mccoy

  4. Ricky Carroll

  5. Jeff Bushman

  6. Bill Stewart

  7. Rusty

Bernie “Mad Dog” Crouch

Ara Kasparian

Bob Snyder

Greg Loehr

Ricky Carroll

Sam Barker (got one from him when Greg left)

Richie Buehn-Longboards

Steve Forstall-Shortboards

That’s '79 till now. Most of you guys have much more “experience” than I.

Terry Goldsmith (for G&S)

Rusty Priesendorfer (for Canyon)

Rusty " (for Rusty)

Michael Baron (for Offshore)

Peter Benjamin

Dave Coons (for Life’s a Beach)

IG surfboards (shaper not remembered… worst board I ever owned)

Mark Smith (for Living Water)

Casey McCrystal

John Carper

Hobie Alter

Donald Takayama

Tyler Hatzikian

Rich Pavel (for Rainbow)

Terry Martin (for Hobie)

Terry Martin (TM shapes)

Midget Smith (for Hobie… beat that cancer dude!)

Jeff Alexander (Gemini Speedfreak)

Bob Mitzven

Dennis Murphy (for Iron Cross)

Alan_M (for Contraband)

Alan_M (for Salted)

Mine in order ( I think I remember all )

Warren Cornish

Myself

Colin Wall

Frank Latta

Bill Cilia

John Harris

Eric Taylor

Geoff McCoy

Ronnie Woodward

Bruce Abrams

Mitch Rae

Rob Allen

Michael Cundith

Chris Henri

Chris Mackie

Brett Munro

Billy Tolhurst

Hendo

Donald Takayama

Billy Hamilton

Nev Firewire

There have been others that I can’t recall and many multiples in and out of sequence some that I still use.

Cheers

Mooneemick

Edit… First one…Colnel Sanders !!!

Dave Sweet
Wardy
Yater spoon prototype (Andy Neuman's board originally)
Bing (N Lightweight)
Greg Noll "da Cat"
Yater spoon
Chanin/Diffenderfer
Hobie
My own shape
G&S magic
Dennis Benidem(sp?) Shaping at G&S Summer 69? Surfboards Australia hull
Plastic Fantastic
Morey Pope Camel
Ed Wright Sunset (all my boards from 70 to 73)
My own shape
Down Home (N county underground label)

Michael Croteau 
Skip Fry (summer in SD, it's fish time)
Caster (winter board)
BK
Skip Fry fish 
Skip fish
Pat Flecky
Pat again
Becker
Diff longboard
Robert August Mike Minchington comp
Fletcher Chounard fish

Dennis Ryder Penatrator 

Mike

Bohemian (Velzy pop out?)

Wardy

G&S

Lee Hansen Mahayana Surfboards

Jeff Morita (high school buddy, good shaper)

Alan Hoshino (another high school buddy, great shaper too)

Craig Sugihara

Bill Stonebraker

Brewer

Glen Minami

Owl Chapman

Ed Angulo

Steven Ing

Chuck Andrus

Cino Magellanes

Steve Walden

Ben Aipa

John Hall

Wes Oshiro

Carl Schaper

Donald Takayama

Dennis Ryder

Me

Randy French

…-machine

-Chinese un named ones

-pop outs from different Countries with bar code and silckscreened shaper s name

–I think more than lots of shapers,

the best way is to work your way with 1 real shaper or boardbuilder follow a particular design or doing a quiver

or choosing a selected ones and work 1 of the designs that this particular shaper does better

so you have the best equipment

but with a couple of boards per every shaper…you dont know exactly if the guy shapes good for you or do not

with good feedback (not too many provides good feedback) and a good shaper you can develop a very positive way to improve your surfing

Tony Cerrf (Bare Nature)

Greg Clough

Kent Manning

Nev Hyman

Laurie Hohensee

Dominic “Zappa” Wybrow

Nic Anganostou (Mt Woodgee)

Stuey ??? (Water Pistols Noosa)

Greg Webb (Shaping Co)

Jim Banks

Peter Daniels (Spider South Africa)

Owl Chapman (Brewer Chapman)

Pat Rawson

Bushman

Jeff Johnston (town and Country)

Maurice Cole

Peter McCabe

Gunther Rohn

Brian Ingham

Geoff McCoy

Chris Brock

Dain Thomas

Malcolm Campbell (ordered…not in hand yet)

Damm wished I still had "em all in hand…many of 'em ended up in two pieces or left as collateral to pay a bill I didn’t have the coin to pay whilst travelling.

Can honestly say I loved eveyone of "em. Not a single bad board amongst 'em.

An interesting topic and an opportunity for some reflection.

From the late 70s (have one of these still under the house) until today all my boards have been custom shaped by Murray Bourton. Prior to that I had one or two from Neal Purchase senior and there was a guy who used to work for Mick Carey, who shaped boards from whom I probably got a board or two. Had a couple from backyarders and got a shaped blank from David Macdonald. I think there was also a board from Eddie Sawden - but I think it was second hand.

Non stand-up boards include two boards from John Galera, a board by Paul Lindbergh and an alaia from Tom Wegener. Have just got a mat from Paul Gross and have a neumatic on order.

Bob

I actually have to edit again,

Peter Daniels, second hand from a SA guy in the maldives

Mark Richards

Backyard butcher(unknown)

Reshape by me

Geoff Mcoy

skip leifield

eric taylor

Craig bentenay

Bruce Abrams

Bill Cilia

Mick Winters

Doug Bell

Chris Henri

John Harris

Gary Loveridge

Myself

Donald Takayama

Brett Munro

Ian Chisolm

mitchell rae

terry fitzgerald

I can’t remember any real dog’s,all had their merits,(except sum of my earlier efforts)!!