Hull for me!

[Surferguy80]

this one's been waiting a while...im way too stoked on how it came out.
this one kindof just morphed as i shaped it, i had a general idea of what i wanted (the bottom contours mostly), but the rest was up to how it felt under my arm as I went along...not exactly what i pictured having as my next board, but now that ive got it all finished up, its growing on me FAST!
6'11 1/2 x 21 7/8 x 3 1/8

stringerless for meeeee:
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blurry s-deck shot
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[Bonzer]

Man, that looks great.

I'm loving that color combo!!!:cool:

[JonS]

Sweet. What are ya doing with the other one you've been riding?

[Cutback]

Sweet nice lines

[Surferguy80]

Sweet. What are ya doing with the other one you've been riding?

keeping it!
that purple one is my go-to board, probably will be until its so destroyed that i have to make another...its half way there.
this one is a better-wave hull, i put in boxes to try it as a keel, but i have a feeling itll be a singlefin for lined up walls.
the other one is a wider, shorter stubby type for more every day waves :)

[Russell]

So where can we go to see something just like that in person. When you call it a hull do you compare it to the late 60s early 70s Wilderness Greenough inspired hulls at all? I think Carpaws and I may be the only ones old enough here to have surfed those things back then. Also just for comment, from someone with no creative talent, and I know my bro Lauren Yater does the same thing, but why, especially a shaper himself, 6'11 _1/2; 21 _7/8; 3_1/8: for those of us who don't know better it is hard to imagine that an 1/8 in of width or thickness or 1/2 in. in length makes any difference. Why not just round it off. Not arguing just wondering.

[Surferguy80]

if anyone wants to check one out Ive got them in my garage :)
Shoot me a pm, im downtown usually 7 days a week in my shop playing with these things, theres usually something a little different goin on...
I use the term hull form greenough and liddle, all those guys...but over the last however many ive made ive refined them to my riding style and the waves that i surf. I can understand needing the perfect board for the best wave of the best day of the year (the super bladey liddles); thats cool and good for that wave, but i really dont center my surfing around one wave, id rather ride waist high section-ers with two of my buddies than head high peelers with 100 people out. So with that in mind, my hulls are a little bit thicker in the rails, and a little less rolled on the bottom (towards the middle), they still have a heavy roll in them, but not as crazy.
this board in particular has vee in front of the fin boxes because i want to ride it as a twin, so i wanted a little bit of a slip when I step on my back foot to get it on rail faster (little quicker off the top and easier to redirect off a cutback), although it reduces top speed, it makes the board a bit more fun for everyday riding for us non-superman types.

the 6'11 1/2 was a fluke, i just drew out a little more than 6'10 (where i wanted to base my board on), then played with a couple of different templates that Ive enjoyed shaping for other people until I came up with a curve that I loved. I thought it was 6'11 while shaping it but when i measured before i signed it, there was a new 1/2 on it, no biggie, I liked the curve, and for me, I know that it doesnt really matter.
The 1/8 on the thickness is almost more of a confidence booster...3 is good for a bigger guy like me and all...but 3 and a LITTLE more just makes me feel better :)

I could have shaped the board at 2 7/8" and flattened out the deck a bit, it would be better in small waves maybe, but having the extra thickness under my feet and keeping all that roll to the rails will make it tip onto rail better like they should...flatter decks are epic for smaller wave boards (my go-to board has a wiiiiide flat deck before the rails pinch).

i agree 100% about rounding it off, but when someone orders 2 3/8" thick, if i dont give them 2 3/8", i could end up with an extra board to sell, and one to re-build; this time with 1/16" more foam in the deck.

alot of surfing is in your head, if you aren't stoked on the board you got, youre not going to surf it as well as a board that youre pumped to be carrying down the beach and into the lineup...when youre excited and happy about your board, you have a better time, and thats what I like to make my boards with colors and pinlines and all that stuff...you enjoy it that much more for us everyday guys who arent destroying a board per week.

how many run-on sentences did I just make?

[Russell]

Thanks for all that. One of these days I will come by and check it out. I used to surf with Liddle all the time in the day because he was always out at the Con when it was good. I have to admit I could never understand how he and his buds surfed thos things so well. I saw a kid at Rincon the other day who had a Liddle t-shirt on and I asked him about it, his Dad is a Liddle bro and they still surf them. See ya.

[BigRed]

Thanks Ryan. Need to have you play with a greenough 4A to make a nice foil.

Took it to my fav spot last night. Got my feet on it a couple times. Chickened out and went back to BR.

Tried it again later when the tide started going and things cleaned up a bit.
My buds on the outside dumped a few set waves off to me. Wow.

What a blast!!!

[Surferguy80]

love when boards get passed along and enjoyed by the next in line!!!
i will forever remember catching an ankle high peeler at the top of 1st point malibu, super low tide, when it hit the cove and grew shoulder high and started growling down the line, two huge full railed bottom turns...mach 10...right at my buddy who was making a joke paddling into the shoulder...lost the wave...wont forget that one as i watched it reel down to the peir...ha!

[BigRed]

Happy boy...