Showing posts with label shaper. Show all posts
Showing posts with label shaper. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
All the Fish!
The 2012 Fish Fry(e) was a roaring success with delicious waves, tasty winds, and more Fish than you could shake a spear at.
Kris putting pedal to metal. You know he's serious when his hand never leaves the yogurt.
Chris Gentile of Pilgrim Surf & Supply, giving the Chicken Petter a shaka hood ornament.
Piles of keel fish, one of the original Mini Simmons, hand planes, even a Lightning Bolt. Didn't get a picture of it but there was a fiberglass handplane that was one big deep concave and looked sick.
Petro of Faktion Surfboards, petting the Chicken.
Todd of the Endless Bummer blog. Love this brother. He's like a stoke amplifier.
This Sunset stinger single fin ruled. Gave me one of my favorite rides of the day.
Huge thanks to Tyler Breuer, Chris Gentile and SMASH Surf for organizing this event and all the other things they do to make surfing in NY more fun!
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Greenlight Wants You - To D.I.Y.
I'm not interested in shaping. It's best left to the experts. It's too much work. There's no place to shape. It's hard to get blanks and supplies around here. There's no one to teach me.
Enter Greenlight Surfboard Supply, known by word of mouth to surfers on the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic coast mainly as a place to order supplies. Having heard from some Philly surfers about this cool dude who runs it out of New Jersey, Brian Gagliana, I ordered some resin and a few odds and ends last year from his tiny 500 square foot warehouse to repair my boards. Little did I know they had bigger plans for 2012.
Now at a new Manasquan location, with a showroom, a shaping bay, and ample space for everything from finished boards, blanks, supplies and lessons, if you're within striking distance of the northern Jersey coastline, the argument against at least trying your hand at shaping is pretty much devastated. For around the going price of a new board, you can get a blank, materials, space, plus one-on-one instruction, and shape and glass your own.
Matt Henderson (photo at right) explained how this process encourages people to experiment, and shape things you might not find on the racks of your average surf shop.
"It's nice, because we get to try out a lot of stuff. For example, Kevin Rider (photo above) has been shaping double stringer shortboards, and you don't see a lot of that out there. Everybody's trying to add a little something else."
What I saw in the shop would seem to bear this out. Such as this fruity double bump number. True, it looks like a popsicle (do they still make the "Bomb Pop" that used to rule back in the pre-GWOT days?) but check out them rails!
Some chunky old school single fins, fins with winglets, a fat Simmons-style quad, a gorgeous step-deck log, and even an elegant asym model give this place a refreshing experimental feel, like a handmade east coast Skunk Works, minus the military industrial aroma.
The one thing they're missing is a teleporter to skip the turnpike and tolls (course given all the juice they'd pull, it would be a hard sell to my super without a third in Tegucigalpa).
Let's face it - this place freaking rules. Let a thousand backyard shapers bloom. I wonder if they'll let me pitch a tent in their parking lot.
You can find out more at greenlightsurfsupply.com
My kick-ass Honduran super lets me store and repair some boards in the basement of my Brooklyn apartment building, but no way am I going to get away with mowing foam and glassing a whole deck down there.
Enter Greenlight Surfboard Supply, known by word of mouth to surfers on the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic coast mainly as a place to order supplies. Having heard from some Philly surfers about this cool dude who runs it out of New Jersey, Brian Gagliana, I ordered some resin and a few odds and ends last year from his tiny 500 square foot warehouse to repair my boards. Little did I know they had bigger plans for 2012.
Now at a new Manasquan location, with a showroom, a shaping bay, and ample space for everything from finished boards, blanks, supplies and lessons, if you're within striking distance of the northern Jersey coastline, the argument against at least trying your hand at shaping is pretty much devastated. For around the going price of a new board, you can get a blank, materials, space, plus one-on-one instruction, and shape and glass your own.
Matt Henderson (photo at right) explained how this process encourages people to experiment, and shape things you might not find on the racks of your average surf shop.
"It's nice, because we get to try out a lot of stuff. For example, Kevin Rider (photo above) has been shaping double stringer shortboards, and you don't see a lot of that out there. Everybody's trying to add a little something else."
What I saw in the shop would seem to bear this out. Such as this fruity double bump number. True, it looks like a popsicle (do they still make the "Bomb Pop" that used to rule back in the pre-GWOT days?) but check out them rails!
Some chunky old school single fins, fins with winglets, a fat Simmons-style quad, a gorgeous step-deck log, and even an elegant asym model give this place a refreshing experimental feel, like a handmade east coast Skunk Works, minus the military industrial aroma.
The one thing they're missing is a teleporter to skip the turnpike and tolls (course given all the juice they'd pull, it would be a hard sell to my super without a third in Tegucigalpa).
Let's face it - this place freaking rules. Let a thousand backyard shapers bloom. I wonder if they'll let me pitch a tent in their parking lot.
You can find out more at greenlightsurfsupply.com
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Thursday, October 15, 2009
A shaper i've admired
Geoff Mccoy's nugget is a board I've always wanted in my quiver. I saw them out in Byron Bay while I was still in my newbie longboard phase. The nugget's shape and heft seemed to make sense to me and I'll forever kick myself in the ass for not bringing one home.
Mccoy in his own words.
Mccoy in his own words.
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