Clarkes' board all finished picked up an gone..... the surf has been biggish ,which is Clarkes main passion ,if you were at the haven a few weeks ago you would have seen him and Dean dropping down 15 footers, so, the longboard is gathering dust until the swells are a lot smaller and he'll put awaay the guns and have some loggin fun. I have 2 more boards coming up soon which will do me for winters work gees I hate the cold!
Love what you do
Well it looks like winter has found a home , with big swells ,wet endless days and soon to come cold Westerly winds. This year I turn 64 and that also makes 50 years of surfing and 42 years of making surfboards, but there was a long gap when I lost the passion for making them but not surfin them, this was due to ,more or less, what has been going on with the industry now ie. mass production...... but now there are machines to shape them, and basically plastic moulded mass produced fins, but ! you still have to hand glass, hand sand ,hand ruband the fine eye for detailing . The problem with this style of production is you have to produce a lot to make any kind of decent money for your investment,and the final product is not meant to last the average surfer more than a year, yes folks its a true throw away product, and its not what I want to associate myself with in any form, too much heart and soul goes into what i do, and always will....Hand picked and glued stringer,hand shaped, hand glassed with the colours of the world , handmade and handfoiled fibreglass fin or fins and tuned and finished with the same skill and care as you should always get, so next time when you put your hands around your magic carpet make sure that it has love oozing from her.
Terry Martin
Clarke's Board
Trip North 2012
Valla
On the way back from the Fishfry I called in to see how Pauls' Paulonia boardwas doing , he was at stage of finishing off the rails, which you seee here . Its 9 foot of timber that he grew and then after 13 years , harvested and finally after curing he shapes it, now thats what I call dedication to the wonderful art that encompasses SURFING and the photo of his 200 plus templates of over 40 years stands for themselves , what a library... There are many so called shapers who think they really are , but these days the reality is they are mere process workers doing a machines bidding not sculptors or artists who create from the raw , so think about your next board , is it something thats been spewed out in a couple days! or lovingly, skillfully crafted and it works like a magic carpet beneath your feet..... TIKI
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